8 X 10: 8 x 10 minute plays by Kate Herbert

A cycle of 8 plays approx 10 minutes each. 

Play # 1 Baggage

Play # 2 Phone Calls on a Train

Play # 3 Social ME-dia

Play # 4 Lover Boy!

Play # 5 The House That Alex Built

Play # 6 DB and Scruff

Play # 7 Thievin’ Thugs

Play # 8 Foxy’s Hangout

 

The 8 plays are connected not by a narrative thread, but by themes and characters. A character that is only mentioned in a play then appears in the following play until we get to Play # 8, when a character is mentioned who appeared in Play # 1.

As I wrote the plays, I realised that each dealt with a different social issue: bullying, perceptions of disability, street violence etc. I then noticed that each play had characters using mobile phones and that phone technology had become a character!

Cast

Baggage – 1 Woman, 1 Man

Phone Calls – 3 Women, 2 Men

Social ME-dia – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Girl

Lover Boy! – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Boy

The House That Alex Built– – 1 Man, 1 Woman

DB & Scruff – 1 Man, 1 Woman

Thievin’ Thugs – 2 Men (2 off-stage voice)

Foxy’s Hangout ­ – 2 Men

                     

 See extracts on following pages of blog.