Lost and Found: a stage play

by Alyssa Ahle

What happens when our emotional scars are visible? Or manifest as physical impairments? This comedy/drama seeks to answer this question in two acts. After their group therapy session for love’s emotional scars is cancelled, various characters encounter adventures and mishaps over the course of one evening as they try to make sense of their lives. Lost and Found is a two-act play running approximately 85 minutes plus intermission. The cast includes four women, five men, and one gender neutral role. The play uses simple props, basic costuming, and can be performed with or without the use of a set. The act of confronting one's emotional scars, past trauma, and even heartbreak is sometimes seen as taboo. Lost and Found strives to change that, reminding us that no matter where we are in our lives, we all yearn for acceptance, hope, and love as these characters do.

112 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2019

About the author

Alyssa Ahle is an author and playwright. Her stage plays include: Lost and Found; You, Yourself, & Others; Five Short Plays of Magical Realism (i.e. Anti-Soulmate, An Ethical Fantasy, Anti-Amour, An Idealized Nightmare, Not Knowing).

Her work has been presented by The Wayward Artist’s JU1CE Play Festival(s) and selected for the 8 Tens @ 8 Festival (Actor’s Theatre) and a performance podcast (Open-Door Playhouse).

Additionally, she has publications of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that span across Germ Magazine, Recovery Warriors, Z Publishing House, KDP, Poetry Super Highway, and The Calliope Art and Literary Magazine.

As a writer, she aspires to draw attention to the beauty and humor of life.