this is not the reunion

You know when you're only a couple years out of college and you try to visit camp with your old camp friend group and it's just not the same, and you are just as scared as if not more scared than you were as a pre-teen of all the spooky things about it? And then your friends start to get picked off one by one by the ghost of a drowned girl from a ghost story someone wrote on the barn attic wall? It's so weird...

You know when you're only a couple years out of college and you try to visit camp with your old camp friend group and it's just not the same, and you are just as scared as if not more scared than you were as a pre-teen of all the spooky things about it? And then your friends start to get picked off one by one by the ghost of a drowned girl from a ghost story someone wrote on the barn attic wall? It's so weird being in your twenties.

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  • Shaun Leisher: this is not the reunion

    A play about remembering childhood and how the past impacts our present. I loved what this play has to say about the trickiness of adult friendships. These five women all have full lives but they are able to make time for each other to remember good times at camp. Loved that this play explores the specificity of camp friendships. This play also works really well as a horror piece. Maddie does a great job at establishing the rules of this world and how the characters experience the ghosts. Produce, please.

    A play about remembering childhood and how the past impacts our present. I loved what this play has to say about the trickiness of adult friendships. These five women all have full lives but they are able to make time for each other to remember good times at camp. Loved that this play explores the specificity of camp friendships. This play also works really well as a horror piece. Maddie does a great job at establishing the rules of this world and how the characters experience the ghosts. Produce, please.

  • Abe Johnson: this is not the reunion

    Maddie is a master of writing characters who are at once desperate for change and terrified of it. That
    duality creates beautiful, subtle tension in this play where campers are torn between the idyllic versions of who they were at camp, now grown into adults still chasing self-improvement. The world of this play is such a delight to rest into. Wry, subtle, surreal, and so refreshing, this is a quick-paced read that would shine on a larger stage or be an awesome script for college-aged-groups looking to produce new voices.

    Maddie is a master of writing characters who are at once desperate for change and terrified of it. That
    duality creates beautiful, subtle tension in this play where campers are torn between the idyllic versions of who they were at camp, now grown into adults still chasing self-improvement. The world of this play is such a delight to rest into. Wry, subtle, surreal, and so refreshing, this is a quick-paced read that would shine on a larger stage or be an awesome script for college-aged-groups looking to produce new voices.

  • Toby Malone: this is not the reunion

    A fresh, energetic take on multiple tropes - slashers, reunions, friendship - where Maddie Dennis-Yates does the reader the great service of not over-explaining, but allowing the characters and situation to coalesce gradually, resulting in a full, satisfying, creepy conclusion. A great character study for an all-female cast.

    A fresh, energetic take on multiple tropes - slashers, reunions, friendship - where Maddie Dennis-Yates does the reader the great service of not over-explaining, but allowing the characters and situation to coalesce gradually, resulting in a full, satisfying, creepy conclusion. A great character study for an all-female cast.

Character Information

  • katie
    a woman in her early 20s determined to own and control her life. she’s here to have a great time with all her old camp friends.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • beth
    this place is important to her, and everyone knows it deeply. she’s here to plan a reunion.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • charlie
    she’s full of love for herself and her friends, but honestly she’s embarrassed and anxious about how little money she’s making compared to them.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • mikki
    charlie’s best camp friend. doing great and pretty psyched about it. here to have fun and get away from the office.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • daniella
    a little stunned by the whiplash of being here when she’s been doing ok at adjusting to being an adult.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • sierra
    a ghost of a (living) good camp friend and of the things they’ve all done wrong – or loved or both.
    Character Age
    early 20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • the drowned girl
    a ghost of a girl from a camp story and an old friend of beth’s. she’s here because she’s always here [and because she can feel them leaving].
    Character Age
    dead (teen)
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female

Development History

  • Type Commission, Organization Stagefemmes, Kenyon College, Year 2020