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A PLAYSCRIPTS TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 12w, 10m, 5 any gender (youth) plus ensemble
Stephen Gregg
Every person in the audience of a high school play falls unconscious – every person but one. Then a theatre ensemble brings the story to life, perhaps too much life.
Menachap, California. An incomprehensible event: every person in the audience of a high school play falls unconscious – every person but one. Using interviews with witnesses, loved ones, first responders and the investigators pursuing the case, a theatre ensemble brings the story of the strange event to life, documentary-style. But as the strands weave together into an increasingly dangerous web, it becomes clear that this phenomenon might not be entirely in the past. Unnerving, exhilarating and wildly inventive, you’ve never walked into anything quite like Trap.
Trap was first staged at Olathe South High School in Olathe, Kansas, on 26 October 2017.
ENSEMBLE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 INTERVIEWER – Filming the documentary, voice only HECHE – 34, struggling detective MAURA AOKI – Survives the attack CELIA BROWN – Has a memento CANDELARIA ORTIZ – The philosopher brought in to understand the incident TAMBLYN GREY – Should have been in the theater that night BRIAN GURBAXANI – Hears the attack AVISHAY LENSER – Forensic engineer RICKENOCH BAYNOR – A researcher who studies fear 911 OPERATOR MARION JAY – Pharonoch expert ANGELA – 16, the lone survivor of the attack BRAND HILLOCK – Architect of the Oak Box NORMA PIKE – A woman destroyed by the loss of her husband JONATHAN MOLLUSK – Scottish, wrongly-accused man MOLLUSK’S COUNSEL – Jonathan Mollusk’s lawyer COURT TRANSCRIPT JUDGE MATALUCCI – Judge in the Jonathan Mollusk trial MENACHAP HERALD – Newspaper LOS ANGELES TIMES – Newspaper TIME MAGAZINE – Magazine HAUNTED CALIFORNIA – Guidebook EPHRAIN SALAS – 23, the fireman ISSA FUENTE – “How bodies cool down” AMERICAN BROADCASTER BRITISH BROADCASTER SPANISH-LANGUAGE BROADCASTER SERGEANT BROCK – Heche’s boss QUETA MUGURUZA – Discovers that animals can subsist on fear TRANSLATOR – Translates Queta Muguruza from Spanish MELISSA TENGUE – Evolutionary biologist DANALYNN MORSE – Counselor at Kenosha’s school KENOSHA – 16, the only person who can tell what the pharonochs are HARTE FORBUSH – Principal at Menachap High KENDRA SILBERLING – Kenosha’s mother CLIFTON – Kenosha’s buddy DONOVAN – Ephrain’s boss DEPUTY 1 – Charged with getting Ephrain out of the theater DEPUTY 2 – Charged with getting Ephrain out of the theater REAL KENOSHA – The girl who “Kenosha” was playing, bursts in at the end
AUDIENCE PLANTS:
CELL PHONE AUDIENCE MEMBER – Listed in the program FALLEN BOY/GIRL – Listed in the program AUDIENCE MEMBERS 2 & 3 – Not listed in the program Any additional AUDIENCE MEMBERS REAL KENDRA SILBERLING – Not listed in the program TEACHER – Played by the teacher. For sure not listed in the program
Trap has 46 speaking parts – not including the Teacher and Real Kendra Silberling. The casting possibilities are myriad. You could use 46 actors (plus audience plants) or many fewer. Most likely, actors will play more than one part. For his production at Olathe South High School, David Hastings used twelve women and seven men, as laid out in the Acknowledgments.
The Teacher is played by the real drama teacher at the school – David, in this case – and Real Kendra Silberling is played by an adult in the audience.
Cast Pronunciation Guide
Candelaria, say Con-de-LAHR-ee-uh Ephrain, say EF-ren Issa, rhymes with Lisa Avishay, say AW-vi-shy Danalynn, say DAN-a-linn Heche, say Haysh Queta Muguruza, say KEH-ta Moo-goo-ROO-tha Rickenoch, say RICK-eh-nock
A high school. Menachap, California.
“Trap is a Russian nesting doll of twisty endings.” – Pueblo Star Journal
“I have never heard a crowd scream that much. I didn't think we were going to be able to finish the play. The audience screamed and applauded for 3-5 minutes.” – David Hastings, Olathe South High School
”The audience went NUTS.” – Billy Houck, Fremont High School
Stephen Gregg’s play This is a Test helped define a genre of one-acts when it appeared in 1988 and was the most-produced one-act play in the country for over a decade. Since then, he has published over thirty plays for secondary schools to perform, including Small Actors, One ...