Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher

I'm a full-time writer of full-length plays, with my eight full-length plays posted here. My plays involve the afterlife and the paranormal as well as current topics such as reeducation camps, nuclear war, abortion, and school shootings.

I started writing plays in 2013. (Before that, I had written screenplays and short stories mainly.)

I live primarily in the Greater Boston...
I'm a full-time writer of full-length plays, with my eight full-length plays posted here. My plays involve the afterlife and the paranormal as well as current topics such as reeducation camps, nuclear war, abortion, and school shootings.

I started writing plays in 2013. (Before that, I had written screenplays and short stories mainly.)

I live primarily in the Greater Boston area (Nashua, NH) and also in Albuquerque, NM.

I'm a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights' Platform (Boston), Merrimack Valley Playwrights (Lowell, Mass.), Drama Circle (Athol, Mass.), Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.

Plays

  • Camp Wonder by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: reeducation camp, totalitarianism + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political, satire
    Keyword: reeducation camp, totalitarianism, love story, war, political play, bird song, bird motif
    FULL-LENGTH POLITICAL THRILLER/LOVE STORY. A woman with a fierce attachment to individual freedom finds herself in a reeducation camp established by the totalitarian regime of the Feather Federation of States (FFS). Three other "students" are in her class, taught by a complex man who is not necessarily who he seems to be.
  • Mother Yucca by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5–12
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: healing, paranormal + 8 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: healing, paranormal, psychic phenomena, grief, guilt, radical feminism, motherhood, spiritualism, religious belief, demonism
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL HEALING DRAMA. A woman with psychic ability and profound sorrow is reluctant to fully use her powers, till spurred on by an other-worldly person to become a healer.
  • Limestone City by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: southern gothic, family + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: southern gothic, family, paranormal, war, apocalypse, nuclear war, sibling rivalry, healing
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL SOUTHERN GOTHIC APOCALYPSE DRAMA. In the near future, four grown siblings hole up in a limestone cavern to wait out the nuclear apocalypse raging outside in the world. With the stress of living under a rock, two of them can no longer stand it.
  • The Mind Has Legs by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: trauma, paraplegia + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: trauma, paraplegia, severe depression, Buddhism, suicide prevention, nature, model trains, dance, school shooting
    ONE-ACT (55-minute) DRAMA (running time can be enhanced with dance and music). Can two crippled people help save each other? In the aftermath of a tragedy that pits them together, a middle-aged paraplegic man and a young suicidal woman become unlikely friends.
  • Baby Brain by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: parenting a special needs child, abortion + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: parenting a special needs child, abortion, autism, bipolar disorder, genetic determinism, Single Parenthood
    FULL-LENGTH ABORTION PLAY. When a 15-year-old boy on the autism spectrum and a 21-year-old woman with bipolar disorder get pregnant, the mothers of the two would-be parents have conflicting ideas about what should be done.
  • Say Yes to Tootlebritches by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: spirituality, deep friendship + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: spirituality, deep friendship, death, religion, god, aging brain, paranormal, suicide, agnosticism
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL DRAMA. An aging, agnostic/atheist woman conjures up a way to save herself, even after she tries to commit suicide by freezing to death, by invoking someone from another realm.
  • Daddy Dustball by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: father-hating, parent-hating + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: father-hating, parent-hating, nuclear family, death, stand-up, fishing
    FULL-LENGTH FAMILY DRAMA. Three grown children who hate their father come home to watch him die.
  • Remembering Mackie Landerson by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: afterlife, bardo + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: afterlife, bardo, paranormal, death, nuclear family, murder
    ONE-ACT (60-minute) PARANORMAL AFTERLIFE DRAMA. The mother and wife in a four-person family leads herself and her loved ones out of the afterlife.