SOME BODY WILL PAY: AN ABORTION HORROR PLAY
By Cayenne Douglass

2023 Parity Development Award Winner

 

Synopsis

Dick Abbott, a conservative Republican senator responsible for finding a loophole in the constitution which would allow Roe v. Wade to be overturned is running for president. He’s the Republican favorite, leading in the polls when strange and unexpected things start happening in the home and to him. Convinced he’s just overly stressed and imagining things his wife suggests that he go to a remote cabin to get away. However, once there he is confronted by the ghost of Clara a young black woman who, years prior was put into a dangerous position which ultimately led to her death because of Dick’s involvement with a group that shut down 8 abortion clinics. Also, in an odd and sublime twist some-Thing starts to grow inside Dick forcing him to live a version of an experience he’s claimed to know so well.

About the Playwright

Cayenne Douglass’ (she/her) (select) credits and development opportunities include Ensemble Studio Theatre (One Act Marathon 2019, Sloan Project Commission 2023), Theatre Masters (Take Ten 2020, Visionary Playwright Award 2022) Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Fresh Ink, New Perspectives, Company One Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Letter of Marque, Dixon Place, The Tank, Tofte Lake, The Kennedy Center and BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Cayenne has been published by Concord Theatricals and was recently awarded the NYC Women’s Fund/NYFA grant to produce her play, Maiden Voyage which will be mounted in NYC 2024. MFA in Playwriting, Boston University. Website: www.cayennedouglass.com IG: bruteful_theatre.

 
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