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STAGE PLAYS written by Brad Slaight Class Action
"Class Action is funny...clever and inventive." - 20th Century Reviews (4 Stars) Available through BakersPlays.com or SamuelFrench.com Sightings & High Tide
HIGH TIDE 3m. 2f. Ext. On a California beach, two surfers have just come from the funeral of a close friend. The two young men confide in each other about Kirk, and they agree that possibly, they never really knew him. A chance encounter with two young Midwestern women on vaction helps the guys sort out feelings about the death of their best friend, and reveals the truth about Kirk's passing. Available through BakersPlays.com or SamuelFrench.com The Road Taken
*This play was chosen by the University of Scranton for their freshman orientation. All incoming freshman were given a copy. "'The Open Road' is a great play. It brings across a very good point to cherish your children and take time out for them because they grow up fast." - The Skyliner, North Greenville College Available through BakersPlays.com or SamuelFrench.com Second Class
Available through BakersPlays.com or SamuelFrench.com MIDDLE CLASS
Middle Class continues the exploration of student life outside of the classroom by the author of Class Action and Second Class. This time the focus is on the life and times of students who are in Middle School/Junior High and the joys, struggles, and growing pains they face. Available through BakersPlays.com or SamuelFrench.com
Dancing by Myself
Available through SmithandKraus.com L.A. River Anthology (with apologies to Edgar Lee Masters)
Available through Premium Playwrights The Dominatrix
Available through Premium Playwrights Inga & the Rascal
Available through Premium Playwrights Copies
Available Fall of 2007 SmithandKraus.com For Men and Women Only (An Interactive Comedy)
1f. 1m. 1 onstage Director. Former lovers Tim and Lisa learn that they have inherited a house from a mutual best friend who left it to them in her will. One catch: They both have to live together for 6 months in the house or it will be given to charity instead of to them. No easy task as their breakup was anything but pleasant. This play is “interactive” with the audience making some important decisions as the play progresses.
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Flexible cast. An evening of twenty-five short scenes and monologues. Commissioned by the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) In San Francisco, this play has won critical acclaim for its entertaining yet relevant and realistic portrayal of life at a High School. The many diverse scenes collectively make up the play. Although each scene stands on its own, there is a common thread - all of the vignettes deal with situations that take place outside the classroom, perhaps the most important experiences that young people deal with while attending High School. 
SIGHTINGS 2m. 1f. Ext. Jarred sits alone in a clearing awaiting a visitor from afar who will take him and his lifelong friend, Julie, to planet Zun. He and Julie have been friends for years, but the pressure of social acceptance has created a canyon in their relationship and Julie has gone to the prom with someone else. When Julie's loser date for the prom shows up, Jarred must defend himself and the woman he's loved all his life. 
Three One Act Comedies: The Open Road (1f,2m); Joy Ride
6f. 4m. (Flexible casting.) Suggested Scenery. Full length play runs about 90 minutes. This continuation of Class Action covers a variety of contemporary subjects, both serious and lighthearted. In too many plays, high school students are presented as angst-ridden teens desperately trying to make it through each day. Yes, there are plenty of obstacles, but as this play shows, there are plenty of good times and lots of laughter, too. 
Flexible cast. Simple staging. Dancing by Myself consists of six mini-plays that all feature young adults. This entertaining and enlightening collection contains a variety of situations that young actors as well as audiences of any age can relate to. Among the many diverse subjects explored here are: parental pressure, cheating, fan clubs, teen pregnancy, first love, group acceptance, and even the honesty that can only be found in one's subconscious mind. 
Flexible cast. Bare stage with pieces. A Hollywood cemetery is the setting for this hilarious and sometimes poignant parody of Edgar Lee Masters' classic Spoon River Anthology. Like Spoon River, the residents of L.A. River have all passed from the world of the living. However, the characters in this Hollywood cemetery have something in common - they all worked in show business when they were living. Each year - on the night of the biggest award show in Hollywood - the residents of this cemetery come out from behind their tombstones to make a brief, funny, and often times poetic statement about their lives. 
1m. 1f. Interior. A Los Angeles S&M "dungeon" is the setting for this edgy comedy that deals with one man's search to relieve his guilt and the Dominatrix who helps to absolve him. At first Ryan comes to Mistress Lena as a novice in the world of bondage and discipline. She explains the many options and as they are about to begin he confesses that he is really a writer and is just there to do research. But it is yet another lie, and when the truth about the real reason he has come to see this Dominatrix is revealed the real pain begins.
2m. 1f. Exterior. Two people are forced to spend time together in order to win money in a radio contest -- Inga, a Swedish cutie, and Dan, a bitter and angry curmudgeon. We discover that Inga needs it to pay off someone who is marrying her so she can get her green card and avoid being sent back to Sweden. Dan, a former child star, needs the money to pay off a loan shark before his legs are broken. These two are at odds until a discovery creates a bond that neither expected would ever happen.
2m. 6f. Full length play in two acts. The setting for this play is an orientation camp for new teenage clones. They are sent to “Camp I.M.U” fresh from the lab to make a transition into the world of the “Originals” who have ordered them made. The newest “Copy” (a word they prefer to “clone”) to arrive is a very bright and positive teenager named Michael who soon realizes what the other copies in his cottage have known for awhile – that their stay at the camp is much longer than they had thought. Michael befriends a rebellious Copy named Melissa, who does not get along with her Original and refuses to change her attitude in order to please her. She informs Michael, and the other Copies, that she is going to escape from the camp and fight for what she calls “copy rights”. 