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A Recipe of Me

by Kate Kilpatrick

Leah and her siblings are relegated to the kids table in the kitchen AGAIN for Thanksgiving at Grandma Lucy and Grandpa Elliott’s house. Worse, they’ve had their phones taken away. This leads to the siblings searching the cupboards for snacks. What they come away with is Grandma Lucy’s secret family recipe box.

They think they’re going to find juicy gossip. Instead, they find heartfelt stories about their family told through recipes. Stories they never knew.

A beautiful look into the world of a family rooted in love and food. Food is the language that everyone can speak.

This play was written specifically for middle school performers and won top honors at both the Florida Jr. Thespians District and State levels.

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

Recommended for Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 30 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
19 Characters
3 M 7 F 9 Any Gender
Productions
Produced by 60+ schools
Licensed by schools and youth theatres around the world
Set
Simple set
Length
23 pages
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Royalty fees apply to all performances whether or not admission is charged. Any performance in front of an audience (e.g. an invited dress rehearsal) is considered a performance for royalty purposes.

Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

19 Characters

  • 3 Males
  • 7 Females
  • 9 Any Gender

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

  • TYLER Male 77 lines
    Sibling to Leah & Danielle; Cousin to Frankie & Dorrie
  • LEAH Female 81 lines
    Sibling to Danielle & Tyler; Cousin to Frankie & Dorrie
  • DANIELLE Female 76 lines
    Sibling to Tyler & Leah; Cousin to Frankie & Dorrie
  • RALPH Male 4 lines
    Son of Lucy; Uncle to all of the cousins (One monologue)
  • BARBARA Female 24 lines
    Sister to Elizabeth & Lucy
  • ELIZABETH Female 21 lines
    Sister to Barbara & Lucy
  • FRANKIE Female 33 lines
    Sibling to Dorrie; Cousin to Tyler, Leah & Danielle
  • DORRIE Female 29 lines
    Sibling to Frankie; Cousin to Tyler, Leah & Danielle
  • ELLIOTT Male 5 lines
    Grandpa; married to Lucy (One monologue)
  • LUCY Female 1 line
    Grandma; married to Elliott (One monologue)
  • ENSEMBLE Any gender 3 lines

Praise for A Recipe of Me

4 out of 5 stars
Lakyn Arrick
Plympton Elementary School
Solid story and easily workable to size up/down for a larger or smaller cast. The individual vignettes of family recipes gave my ensemble a lot to work with in creating pantomimes that fit what the actors were saying.
5 out of 5 stars
Elizabeth Leopold
Farley Middle School
Great piece! We performed it right before Thanksgiving and the whole audience was laughing and then crying by the end. Fun and great message.
5 out of 5 stars
Cheryl Beese
Sequoyah Middle School
Students enjoyed the script and it was easy to stage!

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