Free-Style Score / Guided Improv
A one-person semi-improvised act open to interpretation. The actor/actress can wear anything they want, but they should have a shirt or overcoat they can take on and off during the performance to momentarily hang on a hanger.
Premise: An ordinary, everyday object is used for something it is not intended for. The hanger represents illegal abortions.
Required: 1-4 hangers and two chairs to use as props
Performance Instructions
Intersperse the following characters to make a point. You choose the character's personality and opinion on abortion:
a politician
a young girl
a panhandler on the black market
a sheriff
a salesperson on the Home Shopping Network
an audience member
your own ideas
Complete Score and Stage Directions Available
L.A. Kessler
March 2000