Raindrop Clean

by Kelsey Austin

ShayAnn is a well-meaning young mom with few skills who’s trying to make a better life in her new door-to-door sales role for the pyramid scheme Raindrop Clean. With each failed home visit, her confidence begins to wither but she clings to the company motto: Family, Fresh, and Free. Saddled with a toddler, a dying grandmother, and a boyfriend with no moral compass, the only choice is to make this gig work. When...

ShayAnn is a well-meaning young mom with few skills who’s trying to make a better life in her new door-to-door sales role for the pyramid scheme Raindrop Clean. With each failed home visit, her confidence begins to wither but she clings to the company motto: Family, Fresh, and Free. Saddled with a toddler, a dying grandmother, and a boyfriend with no moral compass, the only choice is to make this gig work. When her boyfriend hatches a plan to speed things up by robbing her customer’s homes, things take a deadly turn, and her dreams seem impossibly far away.

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Raindrop Clean

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  • Emilio Williams: Raindrop Clean by Kelsey Austin
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    This two character play will make a feasible production for any theater company interested in new voices in the American stage. Austin reflects like nobody else the most sordid, and therefore tragic, aspects of the failing American experiment. Don't let the humor in the first part of the play fool you, these characters will fall and the tragedy lands as a punch in the gut.

    This two character play will make a feasible production for any theater company interested in new voices in the American stage. Austin reflects like nobody else the most sordid, and therefore tragic, aspects of the failing American experiment. Don't let the humor in the first part of the play fool you, these characters will fall and the tragedy lands as a punch in the gut.

    ”
SHAYANN Female, 20s. Young mother, she has just become a travelling salesperson
for a pyramid scheme that sells overpriced air purifiers and vacuum
cleaners. Greasy, her body matured, but her mind hasn’t. Her
will and determination, though, are firing away.
LENOX Male, 20s. ShayAnn’s boyfriend and the father of their son. Puny, bony,
all bravado. He tries to grow a mustache, but fails.

Development History

  • Workshop, Digital Development Project, 2023
  • Residency, Blue Parrot Studio, Chicago and Paris, 2022
  • Reading, Telling Humans Playwrights Studio, 2022