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Emotional Baggage

Emotional Baggage

by Lindsay Price

This is the most unique play we sell. It's based solely on action and has no dialogue. Suitable for performance and in-class work, the play focuses on non-verbal storytelling through mask and movement.

Seven strangers meet in a train station. Instead of luggage, they all carry their "emotional baggage."

They must confront themselves and one another. Everybody carries emotional baggage with them. What's yours?

Dramedy Character Study Experimental Form Movement-based

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Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Running Time
About 30 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
8 Characters
4 M4 F
Set
Simple Set
Length
27 pages
Free Excerpt

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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.

8 Characters
4 M, 4 F

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.

Can’t Get Over First Love [F]
Chip On Shoulder About Weight / The Man [M]
Dead End Job [M]
Getting Over Heart Attack [M]
Insecure About Looks [F]
Living In The Past [F]
Overbearing Mom [M]
Well Rounded Person / The Mother [F]

Praise for Emotional Baggage

Michelle McDonald
St. Peter's CSS
We used the play as a competition piece. It was well received at both district, and regional competition.
Tanya Roundy
Summit Academy High School
We loved exploring movement and the levels of emotions and physicalization of emotions.
Ilka O'Donovan
Wind Gap Middle School/Wind Gap Drama Club
The students chose the production to try something different. They loved it. It was great fun to see the evolution in using body language.

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