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Stuck

  • Audrey Cefaly
  • Short Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573705045

Winner of 3 festivals including the 2011 Eastern States One-Act Festival.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival (2011)
    Winner! Maryland One-Act Festival (2011)
    Winner! Eastern States One-Act Festival (2011)
Bob and Betty are out on their second date when things go terribly wrong. Eager for acceptance, Bob pretends to be more than he is. Betty, new to the world of dating, struggles to calibrate as she lurches forward into the unknown.

Published in the collection Love is a Blue Tick Hound.

Premiere Production: Stuck was first produced in Silver Spring, MD, where it won the 2011 Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival. It was directed by Audrey Cefaly.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Non-Traditional casting
  • Casting Notes: The author strongly urges casting directors to consider actors of all ages, shapes and sizes for the roles in their plays. Additionally, in practice, casting, staging and production decisions can and should reflect diversity whenever possible.

  • BOB - neurotic, self-conscious, a people-pleaser
    BETTY - decisive and charismatic