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PLAYGROUND – SATIRE ABOUT MODERN POLITICS
This play, set in a school, focuses on two boys who start off as friends, but as they grow older, their friendship becomes competetive and the two boys end up both standing for class president in a show down that sees the school split down the middle in support of the two. It gets dirty – with their teacher, Katie acting more like a referree than a teacher. In the end the two boys are put in a room and are forced to make friends. Despite the fact that they are now friends, this doesn’t sit well with their supporters who are still in two opposing camps. It gets bloody, with the students running full riot in the school in this satire about modern politics
This play seemingly for children at first, could easily be seen as a euphamism for modern politics, with two candidates fighting it out, getting dirty and even when they make friends, their so called supporters refusing to allow it. A play that says in no uncertain terms, that even the greatest politicians behave like children and engage in pissing contents.
Please note: Mature language and content can be removed from this play for school productions.
OTHER PLAYS BY PLAYWRIGHT ALEX ACUFF
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The Captain of a Creative Ship
First Impressions – Pride and Prejudice Revisited
The Philosophy of Cavemen – a comedy about the evolution of man
Author: Alex Acuff
Type: One act play
Genre: Satire about modern politics; dramedy (can be played as a drama or a satirical comedy).
Length: Twenty to Twenty five minutes
Cast: 2M 1F and ensemble cast of others kids at the school
Ages of the actors: Can be played by a primary school class up to adults dressed as children
Suitable for: Children (with certain actions and lines removed) to adults
Set: A School
Level of difficulty: 8/10 – because of all the nuances and subtleties in this play, it is excellent for drama school that will allow a skilled actor to protray the meaning underneath the basic story.
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