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Bench Marks: Five Short Plays on a Bench
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
STAGE PLAY EDITION
Five short plays. One ordinary park bench. Nothing stays ordinary.
Strangers, friends, fathers, dreamers, and one former cult leader collide with fear, guilt, family, fate, the end of the world, and the promise of a spaceship to Utopia.
In Bench Marks, a simple place to sit becomes a confessional, a battleground, a shelter, a second chance-and sometimes a doorway to an entirely different life. Darkly comic, unexpectedly moving, and unmistakably human, these five plays explore the strange encounters that can change a life in the space of a single conversation.
Written for the stage, this collection offers five distinctive short plays united by one bench and the people brave, desperate, or lost enough to sit upon it.
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