• Home Page
  • Contact Us/ Request Rights
  • Competition Plays
  • Halloween Plays
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • A Persecution Story
  • A Squeaky Wheel Gets Oiled
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator
  • Adventure Play Collection
  • Based on the...
  • Batguy (Family Friendly Version)
  • Batguy (Mature Version)
  • Cinderella and the Quest for the Crystal Pump (Large Cast Version)
  • Cinderella and the Quest for the Crystal Pump (Small Cast Version)
  • Crossdressers from Outer Space
  • Curious Tales for Christmas
  • Dear John: An Ode to the Potty
  • Divanalysis
  • Doris: The Woman in Mismatched Boots
  • Dracula vs Santa Claus
  • Elisha and the Bears
  • Elvis Meets Nixon
  • Even Adam
  • Even More Twisted
  • Exits and Entrances
  • Fairy Tale Play Collection
  • Finger Lickin' Good!
  • Four Famous Kentuckians
  • Frankenstein Rocks!
  • Frankenstein's Mary Shelley
  • Frontier Surgeon
  • Godzilla vs Bambi
  • Hercules and Chuck
  • High School Live
  • Holiday Play Collection
  • Humbug! A Christmas Carol
  • Humbug! A Christmas Carol (Competition Version)
  • Humbug! A One Man Christmas Carol
  • Infectious
  • Jacklyn Sparrow and the Lady Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Jason and the Argonauts
  • Jemima Boone: Daughter of the Frontier
  • Jurassic Pork
  • Lady Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Lady Pirates of the Caribbean (Competition Version)
  • Legends and Bridge
  • Lessons in Levitation
  • Losers
  • Macbeth
  • Masked Men
  • Middle School Live
  • Miss Hickey's Hickey
  • My Father and Son
  • Night of the Muses
  • Peter Pan
  • Peter Pan (Competition Version)
  • Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • Popeye the Sailor Man
  • Pulling Leather (Family Friendly Version)
  • Pulling Leather (Mature Version)
  • Pursued by a Runaway Train
  • Rapunzel
  • Roses are Red
  • Second Year Itch
  • Seven Dreams of Falling
  • Shorespeare (Large Cast Version)
  • Shorespeare (Small Cast Version)
  • Sleeping Beauty in the 25th Century
  • Snehurka a Sedm Trpasliku Stare Republiky
  • Snow White and the 47 Dwarves
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarves of the Old Republic
  • So, Who Was That Masked Guy Anyway?
  • Story Theatre
  • Student Written Disaster
  • The Anniversary Gift
  • The Cure
  • The Creature from the Black Lagoon Gets No Respect!
  • The Dracula Spectacula
  • The Dracula Spectacula (Competition Version)
  • The Farm of Henry Kaiser
  • The Four Presidents
  • The Hairless Monkeys of the Starship Bostrock
  • The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
  • The Interview
  • The Legend of Charlie Copperhead
  • The Little Mermaid (More or Less)
  • The Long John Cafe
  • The Long John Cafe (Competition Version)
  • The Mice Plays
  • The Never Before Seen Pilot Episode of Dipsy the Dinosaur
  • The Odd Princesses
  • The Pirate Who Saved Christmas
  • The Princess Play Collection
  • The Sleigh Team
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • The Throbbit
  • The Value of Empty Boxes
  • The Wacky Adventures of Robin Hood
  • The Wacky Adventures of Robin Hood (Competition Version)
  • The Winning Numbers
  • Twisted Tales
  • Volpone
  • Wanted: Santa Claus
  • Weird One-Acts For Oddball College Actors
  • Winnie the Pooh

Seven Dreams of Falling



Seven Dreams of Falling, is a re-thinking of the Icarus myth. It's late in the post-modern day and Icarus has grown weary of falling out of the sky over and over: in painting, poetry, and myth. Having decided it's time for a career change, he plots his escape from a cycle of doomed repetition even as family and friends, who are part of his story, find themselves struggling with the idea of letting go. Can Icarus simply fly out of his own life? And if he can, what does that mean for those he leaves behind: Deadalus, a father for whom rules, rituals and quantum mechanics are sacred Theseus, a fading hero who loves the monster he must kill Ariadne, the hero's former flame, the monster's half-sister, Lesbian cultural-critic and the monster himself, The Minotaur, who holds a secret that could destroy them all...or set them free. It's a comedy of mythic proportions.

Cast Size: 5 roles.
Running Time: 60 minutes.
Royalty Rate: $50.00 per performance.
Appropriate for adult audiences. 

Apply for performance rights.
Order Scripts from Amazon.

Carey Scott Wilkerson was a dramatist, poet, performing-theorist, and the author of numerous plays, including Seven Dreams of Falling (Black Box Theatre Publishing Company), Divanalysis (with C. Stephen Foster, also from Black Box Theatre Publishing Company), and Ariadne in Exile. He wrote the libretti for The Ariadne Songs (with composer Angela Schwickert), The Rescue (a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, also with Angela Schwickert), Eddie Stone's Song: Odyssey of the First Pasaquoyan (with composer James Ogburn), and an operatic adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (with composer Robert Chumbley). He wrote three books of poetry, Threading Stone and Ars Minotaurica (New Plains Press), and Cruel Fever of the Sky (Negative Capability Press). His Primer for the Minotauric Arts was published by The Chapbook journal, and his e-chapbook Polylogue was published by E-ratio. He was a winner of a Lillian E. Smith Writers Fellowship, was a Visiting Writer at Clayton State University and the University of South Alabama, and a Guest Artist at the University of Mississippi. He received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and his PhD from Georgia State University. He was a Core Faculty member in Reinhardt University's Low-residency MFA Creative Writing program, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbus State University. He was a fierce advocate for indie theatre and a huge supporter of everyone. Mr. Wilkerson passed away in July of 2024, but his writing and his art will live on.



Copyright © Carey scott wilkerson



All right reserved.


Black Box Theatre Publishing Company

United States of America

ph: (606) 280-8351

info@blackboxtheatrepublishing.com