Chicken. Road.

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

Running Time

About 45 minutes

Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes

Cast

15 Characters

1 M 1 F 13 Any Gender

Set

Simple Set

Length

34 pages

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15 Characters

1 Male
1 Female
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 Any gender 50 lines
TWO Any gender 35 lines
THREE Any gender 47 lines
FOUR Any gender 30 lines
FIVE Female 30 lines
SIX Male 31 lines
SEVEN Any gender 41 lines
EIGHT Any gender 32 lines
NINE Any gender 32 lines
TEN Any gender 39 lines
ELEVEN Any gender 31 lines
TWELVE Any gender 43 lines
THIRTEEN Any gender 29 lines
FOURTEEN Any gender 40 lines
FIFTEEN Any gender 61 lines

Praise for Chicken. Road.

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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