Carole Clement



PLAYSCRIPTS
Where the Sky Ends
FL 4W/8M + extras

Historical Drama A pagan priestess and a devoutly Christian girl become allies when the union of church and state disrupts life in 10th Century Denmark.
 

Flight from Southern Egypt
FL 4W/2M

Factual Historical Drama

**ACT I: Running a Thousand Miles Disguised as a white planter, slave Ellen Craft attempts to lead her husband to freedom in Philadelphia.

**ACT II: Caesar's Wife Elizabeth Piatt violates the Fugitive Slave Act by opening an Underground Railroad Station in her Bellefontaine, OH, home, where she lives with her husband, a US circuit judge.
 

Babes in America
FL 4W/3M

Satirical Comedy/Drama Liz Small rebels against living faster than the speed of life in a world of information overload and experiential underload.


Once upon a Russian Stove
FL Comedy cast of 15-30, 8 with doubling

A retelling of Russian folk tales and fables.

**ACT I: Who Will Scrub the Porridge Pot?

**ACT II: The Storyteller

**ACT III: Two Brothers Drama Suitable for puppet play
 

Passing Tense
FL 3 W Drama/Comedy

Questions of identity and buried lies and conflicts resurface between a young woman of color and her adoptive white mother when a third woman enters their lives.


Settling the West, Part I
FL 4W/2M

Historical Drama based on fact

**ACT I: The Oregon Trial (sic) The hardships of the Oregon Trail and the reality of the Territory cause an emigrating Missouri family to question their decision to resettle.

**ACT II: Misunderstanding in Red and White The misunderstanding of missionaries and Native Americans results in mutual death.
 

Waltzing on Flowers
FL 3W/2M Drama with some comedy

A woman with a serious illness struggles against her family's love, guilt and denial to maintain control of her life . . . and death.


Turtle House
1-A 3W/1M Drama with comedy

A young woman attempts to confront/integrate her past and claim her future without resolution of her family's expectations.

** Can be performed as a one-act.
 
 

PARADISE LOST
FL  2W/3M

A med school drop-out, two scheming leprechauns, an archeologist and an
aging Calgary Flames hockey star address loss.



MOVIESCRIPTS

Let's Pretend
Based on PASSING TENSE

Portrait of a Woman
Based on WALTZING FLOWERS



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Carole Clement
 

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