Alien Abductions, Typically Speaking is the story of sixteen-year-old Josiah. Josiah has never met his father. According to Josiah’s mother, this is because Josiah’s father lives on another planet. Josiah’s mother, revising the truth of a frat party hook-up, has always told Josiah she was impregnated with him during an alien abduction in her freshman year of college. As the play opens, Josiah is moving back in with his mother, who now lives with her fiancé, Johnson Davis, after six months in a group home. In the home of Johnson Davis, Josiah meets Bree, Johnson Davis’s seventeen-year-old daughter, who first declares Josiah her secret boyfriend, later declares herself pregnant with Josiah’s child, and ultimately leads Josiah, through her belief in his origin story, to face up to its falsehood.
Alien Abductions, Typically Speaking
Cast:
Josiah A sixteen-year-old boy
Bree A seventeen-year-old girl
Josiah’s Mother A thirty-five-year-old woman
Johnson Davis A fifty-five-year-old man
Patrick A fifteen-year-old boy
Frat Boy A nineteen-year-old boy/A thirty-six-year-old man
Bart A twenty-two-year-old man
(Frat Boy, Bart, and/or Patrick may be played by the same actor.)
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