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Plays About Death

Our newest featured list is our quarterly check-in with playwright Adam Szymkowicz, who offers this introduction: "I don't know why anybody writes about anything besides death. What bigger mystery or fear could exist, and what greater losses do we have than those brought about by death? So hooray for death! Here are some plays that embrace it as a subject."

Alabaster by Audrey Cefaly
Wonders Of The Invisible World by Liz Duffy Adams
Anatomy of a Hug by Kat Ramsburg
Death and Cockroaches by Eric Reyes Loo
JOURNEY TO ALICE by Aja Houston
PERSEPHONE (a new myth for a hotter world) by Kristen Palmer
From Skull To Ghost by Geo Decas O'Donnell
Hessians by Julian Sheppard
Green Man by Jim Knable
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I Will Miss You When You're Gone by Jessica Moss
I Changed My Mind, I'm Fine by Stephanie Swirsky
Architecture of Rain by Stefani Kuo
mother's son by Dominic Finocchiaro
PETER/PIPER by Trista Baldwin
Primary User by Nate Eppler
Pierce by Nat Cassidy
The White Horse by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif
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The NPX Index

  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "murder": 390
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "suicide": 416
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "cancer": 192
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrase "heart attack": 6
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "death": 773