Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher is a full-time writer of full-length plays, with eight of her nine full-length plays posted here. All her plays have strong women characters. Two short plays are posted at the end.

Her overarching theme is:

People who want to live their lives without undue influence from other people find that they cannot escape the impact of others.

Her plays involve...
Vicki Meagher is a full-time writer of full-length plays, with eight of her nine full-length plays posted here. All her plays have strong women characters. Two short plays are posted at the end.

Her overarching theme is:

People who want to live their lives without undue influence from other people find that they cannot escape the impact of others.

Her plays involve the afterlife and the paranormal as well as current topics such as reeducation camps, nuclear war, dementia, abortion, and school shootings.

She started writing plays in 2013.

She lives in New Hampshire (Nashua) and New Mexico (Albuquerque).

She's a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights' Platform (Boston), Playwrights Circle (Albuquerque), Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, Playwrights en Masse, Drama Circle, 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 (2 women, 3 men) 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 DRAMA ABOUT HEALING (12 women characters, 5 female actors required) 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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: climate change, southern gothic + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: climate change, southern gothic, family, paranormal, war, apocalypse, nuclear war, sibling rivalry, healing
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL SOUTHERN GOTHIC CLIMATE-CHANGE APOCALYPSE DRAMA with SEMI-ELABORATE SET (2 men, 2 women) Four grown siblings hole up in a limestone cavern to wait out the nuclear apocalypse caused by extreme climate change tensions.
  • 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
    FULL-LENGTH DRAMA with MINIMAL SET (1 man, 1 woman) 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
    Recommendations: 1
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    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 (3 women, 1 man) 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 (2 women, 1 man) 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 (2 women, 3 men) 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
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL AFTERLIFE DRAMA with MINIMAL SET (2 women, 2 men) The mother and wife in a four-person family leads herself and her loved ones out of the immediate afterlife (the bardo).
  • Three Ladybugs by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: ten-minute play, atheism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: ten-minute play, atheism, spiritualism, ladybugs, death
    10-MINUTE COMIC DRAMA (3 actors) Three ladybugs--a Believer, an Agnostic, and an Atheist--ponder the existence of other species while two humans (in voiceover) create their own (similar) drama.
  • Asking For It by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, satire
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    Keyword: metoo
    Genre: comedy, satire
    Keyword: metoo
    10-MINUTE SATIRE/COMEDY (1 woman, 1 man, 1 either) A perp steals the wallet of a victim and proves to the woman judge that the victim deserved it because of the way he was dressed.