Oddball

Are you completely normal? 100% devoid of the peculiar? Or have you embraced your oddness: odd jobs, odd socks, odd one out, odd reactions and odd boyfriends.

Step right up. Step right up. Step inside to see live acts of the slightly weird and the nearly harmless. Feast your eyes on the miracle of the mildly freakish. Step inside and experience Oddball for yourself.

Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

This is a vignette play!

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Running Time

About 35 minutes

Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes

Cast

32 Characters

7 M 20 F 5 Any Gender

Doubling Possible

Set

Simple Set

Length

38 pages

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Royalty fees apply to all performances whether or not admission is charged. Any performance in front of an audience (e.g. an invited dress rehearsal) is considered a performance for royalty purposes.

Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

32 Characters

7 Males
20 Females
5 Any Gender
Doubling Possible

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

Ballyhoo 2 lines
Guy with Ball 48 lines
One Female 28 lines
Two Any gender 15 lines
Three Female 24 lines
Four Female 14 lines
Shannon Female

One Monologue
Brandon Male 18 lines
Linda Female 18 lines
Larry Male 15 lines
Sue Female 11 lines
Bobo Male 8 lines
Holly Female 8 lines
Lieutenant Any gender 7 lines
Sergeant Any gender 7 lines
Lemon Female 3 lines
Missy Female 34 lines
Jackson Male 33 lines
Deanne Female 29 lines
Nicole Female 27 lines
Blue Female 5 lines
Red Any gender 5 lines
Black Female 9 lines
White Female 8 lines
Orange Female 11 lines
Yellow Female 12 lines
Green Any gender 8 lines
Monica Female 35 lines
Brynn Female 27 lines
Tisha Female 25 lines
Zoe Female 41 lines
Hailey Female 27 lines

Praise for Oddball

Rachael Hamre

Crown of Life Lutheran School

This play was perfect for us. Our students were new to theatre, so I wanted a play that would really make them want to be involved, and this script did it! It was funny and flexible, and allowed for many students to be involved.

Angel Bethke

West Ridge Middle School

The students and audiences loved it! Funny, clever and right on point for middle school.

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