The Broken Window (High School Edition)

by Diane Wagner

Overview

1nb/trans, 5f, 3m, 2 offstage voices

When a group of former friends find the same note in their lockers telling them to go to an abandoned house in the middle of the night, they all show up, against their better judgement. Each admits to feeling pulled by the spirit of their friend, Dani, who lived and died in the house three years prior under suspicious circumstances. But it's Ronnie (formerly known to his friends as Veronica) who called them together, desperate for their help in finding his mother who, he claims, is missing.

A thrilling ghost story on the surface with a brutally tangible underbelly, The Broken Window exposes the relentless pressure to succeed, the lure of quick fixes (see: Aderall), the toll of keeping secrets, and the desperate search for meaning in a world that feels impossible to navigate.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781968051327
Publisher:	Uproar Theatrics
Publication date:	05/21/2025
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Diane Wagner is a writer, actress, and educator residing in Bethlehem, PA. She has a BA in English Communications from DeSales University and an MFA in Acting from Louisiana State University. Diane has been teaching Theatre at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts since 2003. Some of her most notable acting credits include Mary in the film Getting Grace (A Channel of Peace), Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Particle Theatre), Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew (Tulane Shakespeare Festival and Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival), The Angel in Angels in America (Swine Palace) and Martha, in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (LSU/Kennedy Center). Her debut novel, THE ALMIGHTY FATHER, was a finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2020 Indie Book of the Year. Additional writing credits include SCIENCE TIME, an 8 part children's television program for PBS39 (WLVT), THE PIRATE KING, a play that had a staged reading at LA's Celebration Theater, and GOODY GOODY, an historical fiction series based on her television pilot of the same name. Her play THE BROKEN WINDOW has been produced at numerous high schools and community theaters across the country.