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Chicken. Road. Competition Version

Chicken. Road. Competition Version

by Lindsay Price

NEW Competition Version!

Why did the chicken cross the road? Why is the sky blue? What’s two plus two? Why did he kill himself?

A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they struggle to understand why someone who appeared to have everything chose to end their life.

Here’s a chicken. Here’s the road. There’s the other side. What do you do when there is no answer?

Drama Experimental Form Issue-Based
About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
15 Characters
15 Any Gender
Simple set
25 pages

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