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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

About 30 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
8 Characters
4 M | 4 F
Simple Set
27 pages
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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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