EMPTY PLACES OF THE HEART – A FAMILY COMEDY SCRIPT

Mike, 25 and Donna, 19, still live with Steve, their dad, a science teacher at the local high school with a reputation for blowing things up. Mike lives there because he worries that his father can’t be trusted to look after himself (and that he’ll end up blowing himself up) and Donna because all she wants to do is be in a metal band and live on the Dole. Today, things are about to change. It seems that Steve may have blown up the science lab for the last time and both Steve and Mike have met someone. A family comedy script about moving on.

Other plays by Australian playwright Robert Luxford:

Moon Based Delta – a comedy set up the moon. Featuring sabotage, a deadly virus and a cereal fetish!
Nuns – a two act satire featuring rebellious nuns staging a mutiny!

Author: Robert Luxford

Type: One act Play

Genre: Family Comedy Script, dramedy, Australian comedy

Cast: 2M 3F

Ages of the actors: Two in their fifties, the rest late teens to twenties

Suitable for: Adults – language about sex

Length: 35-40 minutes

Set: A living room with a bookshelf, with an exit to the kitchen and another area that can be designated as a separate room

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the character of Steve should be eccentric, Mike and Sylvia straitlaced, Donna brash but with care not to overplay this part so she appears realistic and Alice sweet and quiet.

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Copyright @ June 2022 Robert Luxford and Off The Wall Play Publishers

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FAMILY COMEDY SCRIPT