FREE SPACE
By Tara Meddaugh
A dark comedy in two acts
Amelia spends her days under the watchful eye of her mother, doing the same nothing she has done for years. Yet when Bingo arrives at her local community center, a talking Bingo chip convinces Amelia that forming her own game is the way out of this life and away from her controlling mother. However, as her mother begins acting like her newly arrived sister, and the chip becomes increasingly dominating, Amelia discovers her new life is nothing as she imagined.
DETAILS
Cast: 3 female, 1 male
Genre: Dark Comedy/Absurdist/Thriller/Drama
Set: minimal, impressionistic
Running time: Approximately 95-105 minutes
Great for: Strong female leads, unique plot, several good monologues, minimal set (easy to produce), creative directing and design, an eerie play, outdoor theater (bonfire anyone?), suspense, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats
“Both laugh-out-loud funny and filled with delicious menace.”
~ Playwright and podcast writer of The Two Princes, Kevin Snipes.
“Stephen King has nothing on Tara Meddaugh. When Theatre One produced a staged reading of Free Space you could hear a pin drop. The audience was so taken in by the words, chilling story, and characters from the mind of this very talented writer.”
~ Peg Helzemer, Artistic Director of Theatre One.
"The voice of Free Space… is suggestive and heartbreaking and full of whimsy and cruelty…To gently lay out a scenario in deceptively simple ways, and then go in for the dramatic kill with a stab of cruelty…Like a female Edward Albee, Tara posses a sharpened pen and a sharpened mind and has a cool way of deploying both."
~Ari Roth, Playwright, Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater
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