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Numbers

  • Kieron Barry
  • Short Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573702563

Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies. This brutal and hilarious one-act comedy, set in an all-girls' boarding school, depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form girls in the hour before a new Head Girl is announced.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
This brutal and hilarious one-act play was declared one of the greatest plays of all time for women in Lucy Kerbel’s volume 100 Great Plays For Women. Set in an all-girls’ boarding school, Numbers depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form girls in the hour before a new Head Girl is announced. As the girls vie for the coveted position, old friendships and loyalties give way to ambition and betrayal. Nothing is too extreme in a battle which increasingly proves less about the disputed role and more about how the girls’ conflicting ideologies of class, privilege and morality will affect the rest of their lives.
REVIEWS:

"Clever, fast-paced, witty and caustic… well-crafted and wonderfully funny."

 Time Out London

"A wonderfully crafted, well-constructed and deftly thought-out piece of theatre."

 The Stage, London

"Anyone who has ever set foot in an all-girls school will recognise the noxious combination of competition, self-interest, insecurity and downright viciousness that Kieron Barry displays with such devastating accuracy in Numbers, and while the play is laugh-out-loud funny, it remains a testament to the ferocity of girls and their own particular brand of warfare against one another... Sharp and funny, terrifying and inspiring, it is an impressive account of the cruel sophistication, wit and savagery with which young women can destroy one another."

 100 Great Plays for Women, Lucy Kerbel

Premiere Production: Numbers premiered at the Landor Theatre in London in 2005. Its US premiere took place at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York in 2007.

Characters

  • Casting: 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Teen(s), Ensemble cast, All Female
  • Casting Notes: The play takes place in the summer term when all four characters are reaching the end of their Lower Sixth year. Thus they are around 16 or 17 years old, and about to start their final year of school before university.

  • KATHERINE
    ISABEL
    JENNIFER
    HETTY

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    This brutal and hilarious one-act play was declared one of the greatest plays of all time for women in Lucy Kerbel’s volume 100 Great Plays For Women. Set in an all-girls’ boarding school, Numbers depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form girls in the hour before a new Head Girl is announced. As the girls vie for the coveted position, old friendships and loyalties give way to ambition and betrayal. Nothing is too extreme in a battle which increasingly proves less about the disputed role and more about how the girls’ conflicting ideologies of class, privilege and morality will affect the rest of their lives.

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