Here are samples of some of my writing work.
If you're interested in reading more - or you'd like to produce or perform my plays - please drop me a line at
ed@edvalentine.com.
Enjoy!
Full-Length Plays
27 Pigs
3 M, 2 F
Oren Oklahoma keeps his own dark secrets - until his runaway cousin Iris lands on his farmhouse doorstep in the middle of nowhere.
What will that VERY determined Pig have to say about THAT?
27 Pigs Sample (PDF)
Betsy Ross LIES!
1 M, 5 F (can be 2 M, 4 F)
In which we find that the real mother of the flag isn't Betsy Ross... but a ragged, strangely afflicted 16-year-old seamstress with all the sewing
talent - but none of Miss Ross's flash.
Betsy Ross LIES! Sample (PDF)
Bunyan's Body
Cast of 11.
Sally Ann, the Rooster Girl, wakes up the legendary lumberjack in the town of Big Spoon, Minnesota every day - but what will happen on the morning
Paul Bunyan does NOT wake up? - "Something Big is Dying."
Bunyan's Body Sample (PDF)
Lizzie, or: Hatchet Hour
3 M, 5, F
On a sweltering August day... in a close and oppressive house... SOMEONE murdered the Bordens. Put-upon Lizzie knows can't seem to recall just who
might have done the deed.
Lizzie, or: Hatchet Hour Sample (PDF)
1-Act Plays
Theater is the Thing With Tentacles
2 M, 2, W, 1 Giant Squid
A sharp-tongued critic, a love-starved young married couple, and a stage-struck society woman encounter the performance of their lives when the curtains part...
and the Squid dances.
Theater is the Thing With Tentacles Sample (PDF)
Women Behind the Bush
7 W
When six Society Women (and one sassy waitress) gather behind a bush in a Big-City park to witness a humiliating event, one marriage will be changed forever.
Women Behind the Bush Sample (PDF)
Snow
Cast of 8: 3 M, 3 F, and 2 others (can be M or F)
When the bigwigs of a metropolis gather to pay tribute to an inner-city boy killed in a polar bear cage, they pontificate and puff themselves up,
but can they really manage to communicate?
Snow Sample (PDF)
10-Minute Plays
Dangerous Baby
1 M, 1 F
In a dark nursery, two young parents try to please their inconsolable
- and otherworldly - new infant.
Dangerous Baby Sample (PDF)
The Beautiful, Beautiful Chandelier
2 M
In a ladies' room at a posh restaurant in Pompeii, two rivals meet and finally have their catfight under the looming shadow of Vesuvius.
The Beautiful, Beautiful Chandelier Sample (PDF)
Mrs. B
1 M, 1 F
A bored housewife fancies her husband is straying - and slips into the persona of Bluebeard's final wife.
Mrs. B Sample (PDF)
The Raving
2 M
As his wife lies ill upstairs, a writer named Poe plans to leave his gloomy writing behind forever - until a strange Guest offers him fame in the form of a
dark new poem. But at what price?
The Raving Sample (PDF)
State of the Union
2 M, 2 F, 2-4 others (either M or F)
At a State of the Union speech, a young couple tests the limits of their own union when the wife sees the President and First Lady for who - and what - they
truly are.
State of the Union Sample (PDF)
