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Crush

Crush

By Stephen Gregg.

Product Code: CR1000

  • Full-length Play
  • Comedy | Drama
  • Cast size: 4 to 5m., 10 to 12w., 2 to 10 either gender.

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Synopsis

Welcome to Pin Cushion, California: population 791 and falling fast. Pin Cushion High School Drama has reached its final-ever production: Our Town. Despite never having once gotten a part, Bark Melon—16 and delightfully goofy despite some recent hard times—is convinced that he's going to get a lead. But Bark's audition goes awry when Aspen, the new student, enters and a chorus of malevolent voices enters with her. Only Bark can hear (and later see) that Aspen is not what she seems, that she's actually the lead body of a six-bodied alien creature. Soon, strange things start to happen. Giant hearts appear on the billboards leading into town. Mysterious, impossible-to-open envelopes flit through the air and hint at secret admirers. And, one by one, love-struck teenagers fall into inexplicable comas. Not a single person believes Bark when he says that Aspen is responsible for what's happening—not his father, not his classmates, not Aspen's head-over-heels boyfriend, not even Chloe, the ferociously competent girl who has declared Bark her boyfriend. Bark's attempt to stop the aliens himself ends disastrously. He'll need the help of the entire town because it's clear that these aliens are only the advance team for a giant ship already heading toward earth—and that their plan to take over the world has something to do with Our Town. Crush is hilarious, heartbreaking and full of unforgettable characters. It's a play about what it means to love someone and what it means to be human. In a breathtaking interactive climax, Bark saves the world, revitalizes the town, earns the love he deserves and gets a reward that no one could have anticipated.

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Details

  • Status

    In stock

  • Type of Show Full-length Play
  • Product Code CR1000
  • Cast Size 16
  • Min. Royalty Rate $90/perf
  • Cost $10.95
  • Approx. Run Time 105 min

Categories

  • Target Audience Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
  • Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre
  • Genre Comedy | Drama
  • ISBN(13) 9781619590809
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Customer Reviews

"This was a great show and a welcome change of pace for my students! It is a dense script so be sure to allow enough rehearsal time for the students to really understand the show."
Review by David M. Brockington, Carlson HS Drama Club, Riverview, Mich.
"Crush was a blast to produce- your production can be anything from bare-bones to elaborate and over-produced. This is a great show to showcase a promising costume or lighting designer. My one word of caution is that it can be tough to schedule rehearsals, as characters are in and out so much. Organization and planning ahead is key for this one."
Review by Dalton Pittenger, Smithville High School, Smithville, Mo.
"We chose CRUSH to play alongside our mainstage (adult professional) production of OUR TOWN--it's the perfect companion piece!--and to give us a reason to bring Stephen Gregg up to Juneau to work with our student actors and teach some workshops, which he did brilliantly. CRUSH was a huge hit with our Young Company cast, ranging in age from 11-17, and with our audiences."
Review by Julie Coppens, Perserverance Theatre's Young Company, Juneau, Alaska

Hints, Tips, and Tricks

"We made the aliens more cute than scary, which worked well. We cast our youngest actors as the authority figures (drama teacher, mayor) and as the most sinister aliens, with good comedic effect, and with a lot of doubling and quick-changes we pulled off the show with 14 performers; could have used a couple more. We had a ton of sound effects, which added a lot to the show, and staged the final proposal scene simply but with $100 worth of helium balloons -- a very worthwhile expense. "
Tip by Julie Coppens, Perserverance Theatre's Young Company, Juneau, Alaska