The Annunciation to Mary
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Two graduating seniors, Sam and Emily, who have been best friends since kindergarten, meet to rehearse the annual Christmas pageant at their all-girls’ prep school. Sam has been recently diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, but she has not shared this with Emily. She is intensely anxious about being abandoned when Emily leaves for college, and has decided to start a fight that will allow her some control over the end of the friendship.
Sam has planned a disruption of the annual Christmas pageant that will turn it into a pro-choice protest. Emily, who has been honored with the role of the Virgin Mary, accuses Sam of jealousy and sabotage. Sam, in turn, accuses Emily of participating in a patriarchal pageant that undermines the rights of consent.
In the course of the conflict, Sam reveals her diagnosis, and the conversation takes a deeper turn as Emily admits to being inauthentic in all of her friendships for the sake of being liked.
Returning to the trope of a pageant, they script a new ending that marks the beginning of a deeper friendship.
Two girls, 17
Single set (bare stage with chairs)
30 minute
Sam has planned a disruption of the annual Christmas pageant that will turn it into a pro-choice protest. Emily, who has been honored with the role of the Virgin Mary, accuses Sam of jealousy and sabotage. Sam, in turn, accuses Emily of participating in a patriarchal pageant that undermines the rights of consent.
In the course of the conflict, Sam reveals her diagnosis, and the conversation takes a deeper turn as Emily admits to being inauthentic in all of her friendships for the sake of being liked.
Returning to the trope of a pageant, they script a new ending that marks the beginning of a deeper friendship.
Two girls, 17
Single set (bare stage with chairs)
30 minute