Nana and Paige – Poignant Comedy about Escaping Covid Lockdown

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Nana and Paige is set in May through August of 2020. A year of profound loss, change, and uncertainty and lockdown. Nana is in her late 60s, and is going CRAZY as her daughter, Melissa, will not let her leave the house. Not even to buy groceries. Sweet, clever and cooped up Paige, 17, is Nana’s granddaughter. Paige hates distance learning and missing out on all her senior year high school activities. The two hatch a plan to get together… but even the road to trouble is paved with good intentions. And they find themselves in A LOT of trouble including getting caught up in a Black Lives Matter March! This short play is heart-warming, family oriented, and gets to the heart of many difficulties faced by many in the pandemic. A poignant comedy about looking for a way out of covid lockdown!

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comedy about escaping covid lockdown

NANA AND PAIGE – POIGNANT COMEDY  ABOUT ESCAPING COVID LOCKDOWN!

Nana and Paige is set in May through August of 2020. A year of profound loss, change, and uncertainty and lockdown. Nana is in her late 60s, and is going CRAZY as her daughter, Melissa, will not let her leave the house. Not even to buy groceries. Sweet, clever and cooped up Paige, 17, is Nana’s granddaughter. Paige hates distance learning and missing out on all her senior year high school activities. The two hatch a plan to get together… but even the road to trouble is paved with good intentions. And they find themselves in A LOT of trouble including getting caught up in a Black Lives Matter March! This short play is heart-warming, family oriented, and gets to the heart of many difficulties faced by many in the pandemic. A poignant comedy about escaping covid lockdown!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Nana and Paige was featured virtually in the Old Pueblo Playwrights New Play Festival in May of 2021 as well as in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in partnership with theSpaceUK Theatre in August of 2021.

Author’s Note:

When we recorded the play in January and February of 2021, no one met in person including the director. No actors acted together in the same space. The special effects and technical aspects were all done with Zoom in mind.

Author: Debra Vassallo

Type: One act play

Genre: Poignant Comedy about escaping covid lockdown

Cast: 3F, 1M

Ages of the actors: Ages17-69, three generations of family

Suitable for: All ages to watch and teens up to perform

Length: Running time is just under 41 minutes

Set: The whole play has been performed as a zoom recording, but it can be performed straight or as a split stage

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – if filmed as a zoom production there can be delays in the call that can affect line timing and delivery.

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Copyright @2021 Debra Vassallo

Like this play? Other zoom plays and covid related plays:

The Wings of Dracula – audio or zoom play
Silent Killer – drama about the start of the Covid 19 pandemic in a care home
Covidiots – comedy play about the idiots out and about in covid

COMEDY ABOUT ESCAPING COVID LOCKDOWN

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