Stay Safe! - Softcover

August, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1968051287 ISBN 13: 9781968051280

Publisher: Uproar Theatrics, 2025

Synopsis

A short play by Ian August

8 Actors, Any Gender

In the aftermath of a catastrophic nuclear event, eight teenagers are sealed inside the Denizen Isolation Security Compound-known as the DISC-where they live in total separation, trained in isolated rooms and connected only by a system of screens known as VizCom. Overseen by the relentlessly cheerful digital guide Astrid Starpepper and governed by rigid routines of medication, training, and assigned roles, the Denizens have been promised protection from a mysterious, slow-acting radiation illness.

A powerful ensemble piece, STAY SAFE! is a haunting and timely exploration of isolation, control, and the cost of survival. Blending speculative fiction with emotional realism, the play asks: What happens when safety becomes a prison? And who gets to decide what the future should look like?

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About this title

About the Author

Ian August is an award winning, internationally produced playwright and lyricist. His plays have been developed at the PlayPenn New Play Conference, Durango PlayFest, the Powerhouse Theatre Festival (Vassar / New York Stage and Film), the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Ashland New Plays Festival, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Company, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Wordsmyth Theatre Company, the Garry Marshall Theatre, UC Davis Dept. of Theatre and Dance, the Philadelphia Artists Collective, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the NY, Philly, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and elsewhere. Mr. August is a member of the American Theatre Group's ATG PlayLab, and a graduated member of PlayPenn's playwriting lab, The Foundry. Several of his short plays have been published by Sam French Inc., Smith and Kraus Publishing, the One-Act Play Depot, and Pipeline / Applause Books. He was a 2019 Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas, and graduate of Goddard College's Creative Writing MFA Program. In 2021, Mr. August was the recipient of an Independent Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts. He is also an adjunct professor of Playwriting at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ. Mr. August lives in New Jersey with one husband and four cats.

Edition details

• Publisher: Uproar Theatrics
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968051287
• ISBN 13: 9781968051280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100