Serious pieces with something at stake. Each one gives the actor an objective, an obstacle, and a discovery near the end. Good for auditions that ask for a contemporary dramatic piece.
5 scripts. All free to read, print, or download as PDF.
It is 8:40 on a Friday night and the new kid has his apron off, halfway out the kitchen door. A line cook keeps six pans going while he tells him why he is not walking out tonight. The reason is a diner off the interstate and a man named Ray.
A retired nurse gets three minutes at a town meeting to argue against closing the local clinic. The council has a report full of numbers and a hospital forty minutes away. She has one night from 1986 that she has never stopped timing.
Eli became a father an hour ago. Alone in the hospital parking garage at 4 a.m., he calls the father who walked out when he was six. He already hung up on the first attempt. This time he has a question he needs answered.
Lena's older brother leaves for basic training at dawn. She sneaks into his half-packed bedroom to say the thing she has been avoiding all summer. A fight in June is standing in her way.
Ruth's son has arrived with a folder and a plan to sell the family home. She wants him to leave the house, and her late husband's roses, alone. But every argument she reaches for is one she has already lost.
