The Last Daughter
Productions:
Mount Pleasant, MI, 2024
Oklahoma City, OK, 2021
Readings:
Jacksonville, FL, 2023
Scranton, PA, 2018
New York City, NY, 2018
Acknowledgements:
Finalist - 2020 Jane Chambers Award for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting
Mount Pleasant, MI, 2024
Oklahoma City, OK, 2021
Readings:
Jacksonville, FL, 2023
Scranton, PA, 2018
New York City, NY, 2018
Acknowledgements:
Finalist - 2020 Jane Chambers Award for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting
What if the last fertile woman on earth didn't want to have children?
When Eve discovers she is the only known woman still able to conceive a child, she has no idea how radically her life is about to change. Immediately, Eve is put into a box - a literal, bulletproof, could-withstand-a-nuclear-blast-box - where she is looked after by a vaguely charming (and terribly un-funny) doctor and spied on by an ever-present Very Important Person. Eve's ecstatic mother is on hand, with a parade of horrid would-be suitors, intent on impregnating the very last of the Last Daughters. In this environment, it's impossible for Eve to figure out if she actually wants to have children, not that anyone cares what she wants. But can Eve really look into the face of her barren sister, Elizabeth, and reject what her sister so desperately desires?
The Last Daughter has had readings by Ensemble Atria and cast members of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival, and received its first full production with student-led company Out of the Box at Oklahoma City University in 2021. You can read it now on New Play Exchange or request a free perusal copy here.
Characters:
EVE, the last fertile woman on earth
MOTHER, her mother, fiercely intent on convincing Eve to have children
ELIZABETH, Eve’s barren sister
DOCTOR, Eve’s doctor
VIP, a very important person bent on controlling Eve’s choices; female
When Eve discovers she is the only known woman still able to conceive a child, she has no idea how radically her life is about to change. Immediately, Eve is put into a box - a literal, bulletproof, could-withstand-a-nuclear-blast-box - where she is looked after by a vaguely charming (and terribly un-funny) doctor and spied on by an ever-present Very Important Person. Eve's ecstatic mother is on hand, with a parade of horrid would-be suitors, intent on impregnating the very last of the Last Daughters. In this environment, it's impossible for Eve to figure out if she actually wants to have children, not that anyone cares what she wants. But can Eve really look into the face of her barren sister, Elizabeth, and reject what her sister so desperately desires?
The Last Daughter has had readings by Ensemble Atria and cast members of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival, and received its first full production with student-led company Out of the Box at Oklahoma City University in 2021. You can read it now on New Play Exchange or request a free perusal copy here.
Characters:
EVE, the last fertile woman on earth
MOTHER, her mother, fiercely intent on convincing Eve to have children
ELIZABETH, Eve’s barren sister
DOCTOR, Eve’s doctor
VIP, a very important person bent on controlling Eve’s choices; female
Productions
Mount Pleasant, MI, 2024Directed by Elaine DiFalco Daugherty for Central Michigan University
Cast: Maisy McPhall as Eve Grace Ray as Elizabeth Jarrod Kimble as Doctor Finnley Norman as Mother Tiersza Phipps as VIP Drucilla Phenix, Lindsey Russell, & Emily Turner as Reporters/Orderlies Photos by Soli Gordon & Jo Kenoshmeg |
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Oklahoma City, OK, 2021Directed by Amaya Perkins for Oklahoma City University
Cast: Ceili Chester as Eve Hannah Hansen as Elizabeth Ty Robbins as Doctor Ceci Touzon as Mother Tierra Matthews as VIP Tyler Clovis Harrell as Orderly/Reporter 1/Voice 2 Denton Meehan as Orderly/Reporter 2/Voice 1 Paige Wilson, Liv Story, & Josh Eliot as Reporters & Understudies Photos by Amaya Perkins |