Below are the plays written for the 31 Plays in 31 Days project. You may click on any of the titles to view the script for each of them. Enjoy!
31 Plays written in August 2012 for the 31 Plays | 31 Days Project
Play 1: The Profession of One Mr. Valentine – A game of spy vs. the still SINGLE guy, this short play centers around a meeting a guy who employs the services of MR. VALENTINE to find him a wife.
Play 2: Chicken Sandos, Tiaras, and the War In Between
A daughter’s betrayal causes a father to question what she loves more: her two dads or a Chicken Sandwich?
Play 3: Romero and Julieanne
A homeless man, ROMERO, and his foil, a city worker named JULIE, battle over the possession of a home, aka a bench, in Golden Gate park.
Play 4: The Infinite Line Between Me, Lolo, and Lolo
A young man relates with an audience his relationship with his aging Grandfather’s active imagination. But when a tragic event is unearthed, the question of “Whose imagination is it that’s truly overactive?”
Play 5: Russian Rou-Wrong
Chase’s grandfather lays dead in the next room as her boyfriend freaks out when she knows it could’ve been him instead.
Play 6: Cornered
Nicky Coletti reached the pinnacle of his profession by becoming a boxing referee at the 2012 London Olympics, but when he’s faced with a decision to provide honor to the sport he loves and the means to save his granddaughter’s life, he finds himself CORNERED.
Play 7: Leaving Christmas Past
While JEFF wonders why some people keep their Christmas lights up in July, JORDAN wishes that the memories of Christmas would just stay in the past.
Play 8: A Lost Heart
A bored and jaded police officer comes to grip with her own lost heart when she loses her daughter.
Play 9: The Bro-Date – A mother sets her son up on a blind date. All he wants to do is drink beer and watch his Dubs play with the guys. Apparently, his mother thinks she knows what he wants too.
Play 10: Unwanted Cycle Stopped – A Pro-choice vs. Pro-life debate rages between a wooden door that separates a mother and her daughter.
Play 11: The Bacon of Truth – The Beacon of Truth and Justice is looking for a sidekick to help him battle the life of crime in the streets of Raleigh, CA. Based on a REAL help wanted ad on Craigslist.com
Play 12: Cha Cha Sliding into Life – While all of Ogie’s friends are getting married, he realizes that he’s alone. With the help of his bff, Regine, she gets him to focus back on life.
Play 13: Ysabel The Pilot Santos – With the Olympic boxing trials just days away, a boxer, Ysabel “The Pilot” Santos remembers all of the boxing lessons taught to her by her first trainer, her father.
Play 14: Finding Moonlight – Before a son travels to Bangkok to find the truth about his birth mother, he tries to seek out the information from his adopted mother first. An adaptation of Miss Saigon, when Tam, now named Michael, discovers that he is a product of his father Chris and a Vietnam Bar Girl name Kim during the Vietnam War.
Play 15: Emo Moves the F*ck In – A comedy between the battle of nit-wits and the half-witted over a much coveted corner office.
Play 16: Special Agent Harpo – While busting a spy, Special Agent Suzara, is given the option of arresting Jong or fulfilling his lifelong career goal – finding his kidnapped mother.
Play 17: Float Down Free – In an attempt to score some herbs from Genevieve in the High School library, Marcello offers Esperanza the chance not only get high, but to also find her freedom as well.
Play 18: Fade Out at 11 – Heinrich has been the news anchor for a Bay Area TV station for the last 20 years and accuses the new News Director of retiring him early because of his age… or is it?
Play 19: Failure to Communicate dot Send – A relationship play using only text messages.
Play 20: Our Last Dance – When Hector hires an actress to make his ex-fiance, Salma, jealous at the wedding of their mutual friend, things don’t go as planned… but when have they ever? OUR LAST DANCE is a heartbreakingly short romantic comedy.
Play 21: Of Shotgun and Men – Tally and his younger brother, Red, are surrounded by the Mexican government outside a South of the Border shack for trying to steal a horse named, Shotgun.
Play 22: Tag! You’re It! – An imaginary tale between the imaginary friend, Gabbi, and the 10-year-old Me. An inspiring play of a person wanting to change the world and how it sees him one tv show and movie at a time.
Play 23: Breaking Mad – Gustavo leads a Group Therapy session with Flynn, Holly, and Badger into the causes of why they are not able to get Angry!
Play 24: Room at the Table – The parents of Lucas struggle with doing the right thing after a school does the wrong thing by emotionally and mentally bullies their child into thinking that he’s a bad person because of his eating habits. An immigrant tale.
Play 25: The Ultimate Revenge for a Man Named Stan – One of the NBA’s best players, Amadi Brooks, gets trapped in an elevator with one of his rabid twitter followers, Mojo510. Turns out that they have more in common than a shared experience in an elevator and a High School State Championship game – a man named Stan.
Play 26: The Law Unwritten Between a Prince and His Men – Lumpac, the faithful friend of the Prince of Aklan, Amai, brings him news that may cause a war. With his cousin, Lumpac tries to force the Prince’s decision to attack before being attacked… but at what cost. A short play of a longer one where betrayal, envy, and power pulls apart a relationship that was once built on friendship and trust.
Play 27: Lala Finds a New Home – A quick character study between a homeless girl looking for a place to crash with two strangers she meets at the Civic Center BART station platform. Based on true eavesdropping.
Play 28: Teardropped – A prisoner set to be executed in 3 days asks a friend from High School to do him a favor before he graduates from life.
Play 29: Wrong Numbers – A misunderstanding leads to changed lives within an office.
Play 30: Making Right – Suresh, in search for the father that not only left him and his mother, but he also left behind a tremendous amount of debt which his mother paid for with his life. This leads him to the door of Akram Kahn, who himself had left his wife and son. A short play twisted by fate.
Play 31: Game, Set, Unfriend – During a tennis match, PAOLO and MARITESS bounce back and forth with discussions of the better player, to sacrifices, and who finally serves an unexpected serve with Facebook Unfriend.