Juris Prudence
- Short Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 3M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573628689
Published in Here, There, and Everywhere.
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Description
- Short Play
- Comedy
- 30 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this courtroom farce premiered in an actual county courthouse. A gullible young woman has been bamboozled by a shifty attorney into pressing a suit for restitution against the National Weather Service. The claim? She has been disabled by an unpredicated weather phenomenon: a bathroom tornado. In a pretrial meeting, wacky witnesses chip away at the injured party's promised windfall.
Published in Here, There, and Everywhere.
Published in Here, There, and Everywhere.
Premiere Production:
Juris Prudence was originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and performed in the jury selection room of the Morris County Courthouse on December 31, 1997 as part of Morristown, New Jersey's First Night Celebration. The play was directed by John Pietrowski.
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
PRUDENCE - 20s; Barney's client; a stunning young woman
SUN DOWNE - the weather reporter for Channel 31; a local celebrity
GLUM CRANSTON - Prudence's ex-husband
ARCHIBALD STOKES - a homeless man and exact lookalike of Glum, played by the same actor
THE BOY - 10-12; a child
