Playing The Game • A play

(Suitable for Professional, College/University, Educational, and Community groups.)

The trophy is just a by-product of the game. The game is the exhilaration of a body in motion, working in a coordinated effort toward a goal and the achievement of that goal. The game is winning and winning well, losing and overcoming yourself. The game is life and we are all playing the game. But then there is what you think you have to do to play the game, if you want a personal win. Written for Orson Scott Card’s writing class.

PLAY DETAILS

CAST of CHARACTERS — 5m 3f (No doubling possible)
- Frank McCullum––A wide receiver and team captain on a major college football team. A senior.
  Wes McCullum––Frank’s younger brother. An offensive lineman on the same team. A freshman.
  Beth McCullum––Frank’s wife.
  Dix Matthews––The quarterback. A senior.
  Kenial “Special K” Brown––The running back. A senior.
  Coach Mitchell––The Coach
  Dr. Jenson––An Associate Professor of English. A woman in her fifties.
  “Belinda Rawlins”––The salesperson for a business firm

One set of several interiors
Contemporary costumes
About 90 minutes
ORDER #3026

PERUSAL MATERIALS:

A copy of the PERUSAL SCRIPT (in PDF format) which contains half of the script of the play is available Playing the Game PERUSAL

PRODUCTION/REHEARSAL MATERIALS:

(Any PDF purchased will be emailed to your email address — if you need to provide that to us (not the one on your PayPal account?), email us. CDs will be mailed to a snail mail address. Do not purchase rehearsal materials or pay for royalties until you have performance clearance.)

Script in PDF format — Order #3026a : $25.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
First Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3026d : $70
Second Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3026e : $60
Professional Royalties will be quoted upon application
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PRODUCTIONS

Premiered at Brigham Young University — 1982
- (Chosen to represent the Western States at the American College Theatre Festival/Kennedy Center)

BILLING CREDITS

The following is how the credits should read in all programs, posters, fliers, handbills and other promotional advertising for the show:

Playing The Game
a play

by
Eric Samuelsen

NOTE: The names of the Playwright(s), Composer, Lyricist, and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing to the Authors except for the title of the play. (In a press release all type, will of course, be the same size.)

ALSO:

THIS NOTICE MUST APPEAR IN ALL PROGRAMS, ON ALL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND INTERNET ADVERTISING/WEBPAGES FOR THE PLAY:
“PLAYING THE GAME is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals. All authorized materials are also supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com”

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