Barbara Hume

Barbara Hume is an emerging Seattle-based playwright with an extensive career as a dancer/actor and director/choreographer. LIGHT THROUGH THE CELLAR DOOR, featured in the August 2024 “Perspectives” series at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA), focuses on the challenges facing women’s reproductive choice. RED LINE, presented in Theatre 33’s 2024 Summer “Pop Up” Play Reading Festival in Salem, Oregon, depicts the friendship of two young men, one White and one Black, challenged by the status quo of racism. ON THE HOUSE, a comedy about online dating for seniors, was featured in PDX Playwrights’ April 2024 Ten Minute Play festival in Portland, Oregon and in the most recent Island Theatre Ten Minute Play festival at Bainbridge Performing Arts in August 2024.

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Barbara Hume is an emerging Seattle-based playwright with an extensive career as a dancer/actor and director/choreographer. LIGHT THROUGH THE CELLAR DOOR, featured in the August 2024 “Perspectives” series at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA), focuses on the challenges facing women’s reproductive choice. RED LINE, presented in Theatre 33’s 2024 Summer “Pop Up” Play Reading Festival in Salem, Oregon, depicts the friendship of two young men, one White and one Black, challenged by the status quo of racism. ON THE HOUSE, a comedy about online dating for seniors, was featured in PDX Playwrights’ April 2024 Ten Minute Play festival in Portland, Oregon and in the most recent Island Theatre Ten Minute Play festival at Bainbridge Performing Arts in August 2024.

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Scripts

Finding Godot - A Ten Minute Play

by Barbara Hume

Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
parody/spoof

This Ten Minute play explores the impact of one's grand illusions on human relationships. The play is adapted from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" and highlights the relationship between Pozzo and Lucky and the conflicted path between vanity and humanity.

This Ten Minute play explores the impact of one's grand illusions on human relationships. The play is adapted from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" and highlights the relationship between Pozzo and Lucky and the conflicted path between vanity and humanity.

On The House - A Ten Minute Play

by Barbara Hume

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

This ten minute play features two older characters, a female widow in her late 60's and a male widower in his mid 70s, both struggling with companionship. The play explores the difficulty in showing one's true feelings, even as we age.

This ten minute play features two older characters, a female widow in her late 60's and a male widower in his mid 70s, both struggling with companionship. The play explores the difficulty in showing one's true feelings, even as we age.

Red Line

by Barbara Hume

Cast Size
4—6
Genre
drama,
period

This two act drama, both historic and topical, takes place from 1938 to 1948 in St.
Louis depicting the impact of segregation on two young men, one white and one black, who
share backyards in a segregated neighborhood. Their friendship crosses many boundaries
testing their friendship and the status quo of racism in their community.

This two act drama, both historic and topical, takes place from 1938 to 1948 in St.
Louis depicting the impact of segregation on two young men, one white and one black, who
share backyards in a segregated neighborhood. Their friendship crosses many boundaries
testing their friendship and the status quo of racism in their community.

Light through the Cellar Door

by Barbara Hume

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
political

This one act family drama, both historic and topical, is set in 1989 in St. Louis as a state supreme court ruling titled “William Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services” jeopardizes female reproductive health by ending state funding for women’s clinics in St. Louis. Three generations of women struggle with their past choices and current challenges surrounding their own reproductive history. In this family, a...

This one act family drama, both historic and topical, is set in 1989 in St. Louis as a state supreme court ruling titled “William Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services” jeopardizes female reproductive health by ending state funding for women’s clinics in St. Louis. Three generations of women struggle with their past choices and current challenges surrounding their own reproductive history. In this family, a passionate crisis of disparate viewpoints reveals the strength it takes to be vulnerable with those we love.

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