Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher

I'm a full-time writer of full-length plays, with my eight full-length plays posted here.

In all my plays, someone dies or attempts to die.

The search for a way out of the existential crisis (the search for God) is another theme.

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

In all my plays, someone dies or attempts to die.

The search for a way out of the existential crisis (the search for God) is another theme.

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
    Recommendations: 1
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    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.