Olly Olly Oxen Free

Jessy and Marty find themselves in a stone circle far from home. Someone else is looking for them. Is it safe in the circle? Can they call time out if it isn't? What happens if they get tagged?
A Stone Circle Story.
*9 pages*
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Olly Olly Oxen Free

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  • Christopher Plumridge:
    25 Nov. 2023
    What I love about Jacquie's stone circle series is that there is so much open to interpretation. This short play is a fine example, for me it leaves me pondering: are we really safe in our own safe space, in our own stone circle? What if we leave, or someone joins us in our comfort place, is our security jeopardised? Add to this the playwrights skill in horror and you have a truly great, short, chilling mystery to watch.
    Wonderful!
  • Charles Scott Jones:
    9 Nov. 2023
    I’ve read OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE twice and I still only have a sense of what it might be about, something I admire about absurdist drama and Jacquie Priskorn's short play. Marty and Jessy seem to be transitioning from the rules of children’s games that keep one safe to the bigger universal game where we’re always in danger. I like the use of the Offstage Voice to ratchet up the tension and Jessy’s great existential line that seems to encapsulate the piece: “Even if you call time out, your time will still run out.”
  • Lee R. Lawing:
    1 Nov. 2023
    There is nothing more terrifying than the darkness and sometimes we have what we think are safe places to hide in to protect ourselves from bullies around us. Jacquelyn play will have you racing that very place to hide and to think about what is out there in the darkness and can we ever feel safe in anything but the light ever again!

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    2023