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One to Grow On

  • Brian Kral
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F, 5M or F
  • ISBN: O80

Created by one of America's foremost authors of serious plays for young audiences, this play is a touching portrait of a young man's 12th birthday, spent in the company of his widowed grandfather.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences, Young Audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Created by one of America's foremost authors of serious plays for young audiences, this play is a touching portrait of a young man's 12th birthday, spent in the company of his widowed grandfather. 

Through the course of several disagreements and a long delayed meeting with his estranged father, a young man and his grandfather come to a deeper realization of what it means to have a family. One to Grown On is a powerful biographical play exploring the similarities between two characters as different as any two people should be and still be related. 

Premiere Production: First produced by the Rainbow Company Children's Theatre in Las Vegas.
  • Casting: 2M, 1F, 5M or F

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Created by one of America's foremost authors of serious plays for young audiences, this play is a touching portrait of a young man's 12th birthday, spent in the company of his widowed grandfather. Through the course of several disagreements and a long delayed meeting with his estranged father, a young man and his grandfather come to a deeper realization of what it means to have a family. One to Grown On is a powerful biographical play exploring the similarities between two characters as different as any two people should be and still be related. Multiple suggested sets. Approximate running time: 75 minutes.

$19.95