Plays by Brook North

Direct any inquiries regarding these plays to BrookLivingstonNorth{at}gmail.com

FULL LENGTH PLAYS
This Doesn't End Well
This script is an evening of short plays selected from the below around the theme. The plays that appear in TDEW are: Meta, Misplaced, Information, Inside Job, Lunch Break, Clover, Railbirds and The Stream.

TEN(ish) MINUTE PLAYS

All plays are about 10 minutes except “Interrogation” which is about 15.

A Gift from God

4 actors - 2M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Comedy.

A paleolithic man and woman appeal to God to bring food to their starving village.

Back in the School

2 actors – 1M, 1F

Are school reunions just for getting it on? And is that so wrong?

Clover

5 actors, any gender. Comedy.

Zarmaz and Gargadon are captured by huge ape-like creatures on their first away mission to a planet called “Earth.” (Produced under the title "First Contact" at Diez Minutos in Mexico)

Information

2 actors – 1M, 1F, Drama

No means no.

Inside Job

3 actors – 1M, two of any gender. Drama.

An underground poker game is robbed, but by whom?

Interrogation

4 actors – 1 M (must play an Egyptian Coptic), 3 of any gender. Satire.

It's important to give terrorists fair trials as long as we're sure they will be convicted.

Lunch Break

6 actors – 1M, 1F, 4 of any gender. Dark Comedy.

Atypical day in an office near you.

Misplaced

3 actors - 1M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Comedy.

Morton Hornwoggle and his long suffering graduate assistant find the site of an ancient temple. Maybe.

The New Wizards

3 Actors – 2M, 1F (but flexible). Comedy

You've graduated. Now what?

Open the Box

3 actors - 1M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Dramedy.

That conversation where you're either getting back together or breaking up...

Peanut Man

3-8 Actors – 1M, 1F, 1-6 (or more) any gender. Drama

Historical play about Jesse Littleton Broyles aka “Raleigh's Peanut Man.” Commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery.

Polite Society

2 Actors – 1M, 1F. Drama

Historical play based on the murder of Ludlow Skinner by Earnest Haywood on Fayetteville St in Raleigh, February 22, 1903. Commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery.

Railbirds

3 actors - 2M, 1F, Drama.

At the horse track, sometimes you need a long shot to come in.

The Stream

3 actors - 2M, 1F, Drama.

A short play about love, death, and letting go.

UPSIE

3 actors – 3M, Satire.

During the cold war, only bombs could make us safe.

THREE MINUTE PLAYS

Dare You

2 Actors – 2F Drama

Take the leap.

Gallery

2 Actors – 1M, 1F. Comedy

What is Art?

Meta

3 Actors – Any gender

Never write a play about writing a play.

Victory

4 Actors – 2M, 2F. Drama

Isn't it great?