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Rooky Wood, The

  • Don Nigro
  • Short Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573696367

In this chilling mystery, Moira is taking a walk in the park at the intermission of a Shakespeare play and is suddenly filled with the absolute certainty that there is a dead girl in the woods, and Inspector Ruffing can't decide if she's insane or if there's something to this.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
In this chilling mystery, Moira is taking a walk in the park at the intermission of a Shakespeare play and is suddenly filled with the absolute certainty that there is a dead girl in the woods, and Inspector Ruffing can't decide if she's insane or if there's something to this.

Is the strange man she met at the play the killer? Or is something darker and more ambiguous going on? A quiet white knuckle experience that creeps up on you like a murderer.

 Published in Rat Wives & Other Plays.

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast