One Act Play                        (drama. Simple set)

(Published by New Theatre Publications- www.plays4theatre.com)

Female 5

*Writing Award Winner* Four dental hygienists, Dawn, Rachel, Fiona, and Maggie have been out celebrating Dawns’ hen night with her dentist boss, Babs.  They return in very high spirits to Babs' thirteenth century Manor House, much the worse the drink.  As they sit in the garden, Babs tells them the history of the house, in particular the cellar.  She explains that years ago, it was used for Devil worshipping, when a young virgin bride to be was offered up to the Devil as a fertility right. 
To everyones surprise, Dawn admits to them all that she is still a virgin. Spurred on by this statement, more drink and an impromptu séance, (in which they receive a message from ‘Old Nick’) all the girls decide to go down to the cellar (which in fact is the auditorium) and leave the stage.  Here the mood and high spirits change dramatically when the cellar door slams shut.  The play continues for sometime within the audience in total darkness, and with some disturbing sound effects when Dawn finds herself seperated from the others. 
What are those sounds? Did the girls conjure up the Devil?  Was it just a coincidence?  Or was it a case of mass hysteria brought on by too much wine? Eventually the door opens and they make their escape. Dawn is distraught, and convinced she has been raped by the Devil. However, Babs seems to have a logical explaination about everything that happened to them. That is, until she takes a phone call from Dawn’s boyfriend,  and in the last line of the play imparts some diturbing news

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