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Experiment, The

  • Mark Ravenhill
  • Short Play, Drama, Contemporary, The Future
  • 1M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573704406

If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it?

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, The Future
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it? That's the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in the experience a slippery possibility. 
REVIEWS:

"Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator... The story, and the narrator's level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good."

 Independent 

"Crammed with slippery language, it evokes a vortex of atrocity from fairytales to Mengele and Medea."

 The Times

Premiere Production: The Experiment premiered as a part of the Terror Season at Southwark Playhouse in October of 2010.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

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Experiment, The Script This is optional. Order Now

If you could sure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it? That's the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in the experience a slippery possibility. 

$24.95

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