Dry Land
by Ruby Rae Spiegel

Name: Dry Land
Brand: Ruby Rae Spiegel
SKU: 9780822233336
Rating: 4.04 (303 reviews)

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Teen(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat.

Amy is curled up on the locker room floor.

Dry Land is a play about abortion, female friendship, and resiliency.

It's also about what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left.

Press Reviews

"Dry Land takes us on an unexpected journey into the hearts of darkness and light beating inside ordinary teenagers, and reflects them in all their messy complexity."
— Chicago Tribune

"Few things are as bracing as the shock of new talent… Dry Land feels like the first step in [Ruby Rae Spiegel’s] inevitable rise… Dry Land avoids Mean Girls clichés, turning familiar terrain into something new and vaguely scary."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
AMY Seventeen. Often is dressed in baggy men’s t-shirts and cutoff jean shorts – a look that is both genuinely effortless and for the purpose of looking effortless. Not exceptionally physically attractive.	—	—	Seventeen. Often is dressed in baggy men’s t-shirts and cutoff jean shorts – a look that is both genuinely effortless and for the purpose of looking effortless. Not exceptionally physically attractive.
ESTER Eighteen. Wears simple, cheesy clothes, maybe from Target. Muscular, with a thick back and thighs. Thinks very literally. Plain, but nice-looking.	—	—	Eighteen. Wears simple, cheesy clothes, maybe from Target. Muscular, with a thick back and thighs. Thinks very literally. Plain, but nice-looking.
REBA Seventeen. Thick-bodied and tan. The perfect camp girl, but not a Valley Girl. Only mean in a casual/fun way. Not deep enough to be cruel, simply self-centered.	female	—	Seventeen. Thick-bodied and tan. The perfect camp girl, but not a Valley Girl. Only mean in a casual/fun way. Not deep enough to be cruel, simply self-centered.
VICTOR Twenty. In his own world. Wears skinny pants and old shirts. Maybe wears sneakers that don’t quite go with his outfit.	male	—	Twenty. In his own world. Wears skinny pants and old shirts. Maybe wears sneakers that don’t quite go with his outfit.
JANITOR Male. Late thirties to early eighties.	male	—	Male. Late thirties to early eighties.