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The Pregnancy Project

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

The project seems simple enough. Everyone (girls AND boys) wears a pregnancy belly to simulate what it feels like to be pregnant. Bonus points go to students who wear the belly 24/7. Easy, right? It's not as if it's real.

Lucy, who seems to live the ideal life, isn't finding the project so easy. She's a week late. And every day that passes is another day when life is far from ideal.

Each member of the ensemble gets a monologue in this issue-driven play. No statistics. No preaching. Just well-drawn characters and an engaging story.

Drama Character Study Issue-Based

Recommended for High Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 60 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
20 Characters
5 M 15 F
Set
Simple Set
Length
47 pages
Free Excerpt

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Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

20 Characters

5 M, 15 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.

Donna [F] 116 lines
A plain girl who knows it but is certainly not crippled by it.
Lucy [F] 213 lines
A pretty girl who, until now, never believed anything bad would happen to her.
Josie [F] 61 lines
Gretchen [F] 76 lines
Riva [F] 51 lines
A self-centred trio. Friends of Lucy. They all believe nothing bad will ever happen to them. Gretchen is the ringleader, the others follow.
Conner [M] 61 lines
A smart aleck who really likes Lucy.
Sharon [F] 31 lines
A teen mother. One Monologue.
The Class
June [F] 21 lines
Used to be naive but has learned the hard way. One Monologue.
Christina [F] 20 lines
Has a romantic view of relationships and babies. One Monologue.
Drue [F] 21 lines
Tough, knows the realities of life, but doesn't see her future as a dead end. One Monologue.
Sheri [F] 17 lines
Starting to learn to think for herself. One Monologue.
Mariah [F] 24 lines
Happy, positive view of the world. Naive. One Monologue.
Tilly [F] 21 lines
Narrow minded. Lives in fear of everything. One Monologue.
Ann [F] 28 lines
Sarcastic. Knows who she is and is proud of it. One Monologue.
CJ [F] 23 lines
A bleak outlook on life. Sees her life as a dead end. One Monologue.
Paige [F] 30 lines
Obsessively studious. One Monologue.
Neil [M] 23 lines
A good guy, with a good head on his shoulders who has made mistakes. One Monologue.
Stu [M] 33 lines
The funny man who works very hard at being funny. One Monologue.
Andy [M] 18 lines
Angry, bit of a bully. One Monologue.
Edison [M] 21 lines
Sensitive and sweet. But knows that's not always seen as good. One Monologue.

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