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Chicken. Road.

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

Why did the chicken cross the road? Why is the sky blue? What’s two plus two? Why did he kill himself?

A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they struggle to understand why someone would run out on to the highway in front of semi. Especially when that someone seemed to have it all.

Here’s a chicken. Here’s the road. There’s the other side. What do you do when there is no answer?

Drama Experimental Form Issue-Based

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

Recommended for High Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 45 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
15 Characters
1 M1 F13 Any Gender
Set
Simple Set
Length
34 pages
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15 Characters

1 M, 1 F, 13 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.

ONE [A] 50 lines
TWO [A] 35 lines
THREE [A] 47 lines
FOUR [A] 30 lines
FIVE [F] 30 lines
SIX [M] 31 lines
SEVEN [A] 41 lines
EIGHT [A] 32 lines
NINE [A] 32 lines
TEN [A] 39 lines
ELEVEN [A] 31 lines
TWELVE [A] 43 lines
THIRTEEN [A] 29 lines
FOURTEEN [A] 40 lines
FIFTEEN [A] 61 lines

Praise for Chicken. Road.

5 out of 5 stars
Owen White
Valley Center High School
The show and writing are brilliant - the emotions within the text make it accessible to high schoolers in both interpretation and performance, while still presenting a challenge. We had multiple people coming up to us after our performance saying that they had cried or teared up, and the show was powerful to them and their life experiences.

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