Description
DARK MATTERS – PLAY ABOUT DEPRESSION AND MENTAL HEALTH
An actor sits on stage, shadowed by voices, voices who tell the actor how little he/she is worth and how he/she will never get better. The actor talks of their struggle to cope with every day life, to calm the voices going continuously in their head and how being medicated for decades feels. But the voices want to win, to drag the actor down into yet another cycle of depression. The only thing keeping the actor going is his/her children. But once they are gone, will the actor silence the voices for good? A play about depression and mental health.
Other plays by British playwright Dan Weatherer:
Eye to Evil eye – drama about a prison visit to a serial killer
Friends like us – Halloween horror about an ouija board
Author: Dan Weatherer
Type: One act play, semi – monologue (the voices can be removed to use script for a monologue)
Genre: Drama, play about depression and mental health
Cast: 4 actors any gender
Ages of the actors: Main over thirty, rest any
Suitable for: Teens up to watch and perform
Length: Six minutes
Set: Black box set – a single chair could, perhaps adorn the stage.
Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the director can get quite creative with the characters of The Voices – they can be on or offstage, mirror the actor or even slither like demons on the ground.
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Like this play? Other plays about mental health:
Dr Reason – sci-fi script about mental health and mind control
Flat – a two act drama about being sucked down the road of conspiracy theories
Never Alone – a play about teen depression
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