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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.

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
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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.

20 Characters

  • 5 Males
  • 15 Females

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 Female 116 lines
    A plain girl who knows it but is certainly not crippled by it.
  • Lucy Female 213 lines
    A pretty girl who, until now, never believed anything bad would happen to her.
  • Josie Female 61 lines
  • Gretchen Female 76 lines
  • Riva Female 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 Male 61 lines
    A smart aleck who really likes Lucy.
  • Sharon Female 31 lines
    A teen mother. One Monologue.

The Class

  • June Female 21 lines
    Used to be naive but has learned the hard way. One Monologue.
  • Christina Female 20 lines
    Has a romantic view of relationships and babies. One Monologue.
  • Drue Female 21 lines
    Tough, knows the realities of life, but doesn't see her future as a dead end. One Monologue.
  • Sheri Female 17 lines
    Starting to learn to think for herself. One Monologue.
  • Mariah Female 24 lines
    Happy, positive view of the world. Naive. One Monologue.
  • Tilly Female 21 lines
    Narrow minded. Lives in fear of everything. One Monologue.
  • Ann Female 28 lines
    Sarcastic. Knows who she is and is proud of it. One Monologue.
  • CJ Female 23 lines
    A bleak outlook on life. Sees her life as a dead end. One Monologue.
  • Paige Female 30 lines
    Obsessively studious. One Monologue.
  • Neil Male 23 lines
    A good guy, with a good head on his shoulders who has made mistakes. One Monologue.
  • Stu Male 33 lines
    The funny man who works very hard at being funny. One Monologue.
  • Andy Male 18 lines
    Angry, bit of a bully. One Monologue.
  • Edison Male 21 lines
    Sensitive and sweet. But knows that's not always seen as good. One Monologue.

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