Perfect Dead Girls

$14.00

by Chelsea Grace & Elizabeth Robbins

Short Play, 2f

There are three rules. One: you can do anything you want. Two: you cannot leave until they let you. Three: they are always watching you.

In a limbo plastered with graffiti, glitter, and teenage angst, two young girls find themselves trapped with only one thing they know for sure: something else is here, watching them, deciding who gets to leave and who gets left behind. As they piece together the clues left by those that came before them, they must battle each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.

Inspired by the media’s obsession with portraying dead girls as flawless, serene, and palatable, co-writers Chelsea Grace and Elizabeth Robbins set out to tell a story that embraces the mess and contradictions of girlhood, and explores how young women survive in systems that ask them to tear each other down.

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by Chelsea Grace & Elizabeth Robbins

Short Play, 2f

There are three rules. One: you can do anything you want. Two: you cannot leave until they let you. Three: they are always watching you.

In a limbo plastered with graffiti, glitter, and teenage angst, two young girls find themselves trapped with only one thing they know for sure: something else is here, watching them, deciding who gets to leave and who gets left behind. As they piece together the clues left by those that came before them, they must battle each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.

Inspired by the media’s obsession with portraying dead girls as flawless, serene, and palatable, co-writers Chelsea Grace and Elizabeth Robbins set out to tell a story that embraces the mess and contradictions of girlhood, and explores how young women survive in systems that ask them to tear each other down.

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About the Author

Chelsea Grace is a theatre maker and writer from Inverness, trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and on RADA’s Telling Tales course. Her writing includes People Don’t Taste Like Chicken (Traverse Young Writers), How to Kill a Houseplant (Framework Theatre), Hot Potato (F-Bomb Theatre), Cobwebs (Beacon Arts Centre), and Perfect Dead Girls. Her work blends humour and darkness, exploring power, identity, intersectional feminism, and the complexities of human relationships.

About the Author

Elizabeth Robbins is an American-born actor, writer, and theater maker, now living in Scotland. Often inspired by myths, legends, and modern media, her work explores language, memory, and the grey areas in our relationships with ourselves and with each other. Plays: Blue Moon, Roman Holiday, A Trajectory of Shared Orbits, Perfect Dead Girls. Radio: Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, The Poe Anthology (Inkblot Theater Co, Spotify). Film/TV: Call Me When You Get There, 4778.