Almost Immortal

10-minute play
In the distant future the sea level has risen so much that hills have become islands. As the environment is destroyed around her, Zen dreads the thought of living on for centuries. 

CAST
2 female, 1 male
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3 female

CHARACTERS
ZEN        intense teenage girl with a morbid outlook
RAY        Zen’s lively great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, 197 years old 
KLOË      hip teenage girl, a Coast Guard trainee

(Ray may be played by a teenage girl or boy)

SETTING
The shore of Bunker Hill Island in the former Boston Archipelago

TIME
The distant future
(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
June 13, 2023

Cast: Tennille Astor (Zen), Martin Pfefferkorn (Ray), Diane Quinn (Kloë)​
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Tennille Astor (Zen), Martin Pfefferkorn (Ray) and Diane Quinn (Kloë)
Queeroism Play Festival
The Vault, Collaboraction
Chicago, IL
July 8-9, 2016

Cast: Lauren Partch (Zen), Gaby Fernandez (Ray), Sarah Menke (Kloë)

​Directed by Leah Cassella​
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Sarah Menke (Kloë), Lauren Partch (Zen)
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Gaby Fernandez (Ray), Lauren Partch (Zen)
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Lauren Partch (Zen), Sarah Menke (Kloë)
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Gaby Fernandez (Ray), Sarah Menke (Kloë), Lauren Partch (Zen)
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This play may be performed as the fourth part of a collection of short plays: Brink Time.
​Published by YouthPLAYS.
Also published in Girls on the Brink: Seven female-forward plays for young adults (YouthPLAYS).