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Pandemic Pancake

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Pandemic Pancake

by Lindsay Price

How will you respond to this evolving new world?

 About 35 minutes

Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks

 34
34 Any Gender

Simple set

Dramedy Issue-Based Vignettes

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Pandemic Pancake asks the question: What now? Characters decide, for good and for ill, how they will respond to this evolving new world. Do they find hope? Do they shut down? Do they open doors? Do they strategize long-term? Or do they take it day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute?

We are no different than the characters in this play. We all must decide “what now?”

This play can be performed virtually, socially distanced or a hybrid of the two.

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34 Characters
34 Any Gender

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.

What Are You Doing?
ONE [A] 2 lines
TWO [A] 2 lines
THREE [A] 3 lines
FOUR [A] 3 lines
FIVE [A] 1 line
SIX [A] 1 line
SEVEN [A] 5 lines
EIGHT [A] 4 lines
NINE [A] 3 lines
TEN [A] 3 lines
ELEVEN [A] 1 line
TWELVE [A] 1 line
First Period Check-in
HAPPY [A] 7 lines
GLAD [A] 7 lines
CHEERFUL [A] 8 lines
Professor Fun
PROFESSOR [A] 1 line
One monologue
Unfair
MOAN [A] 12 lines
GRIPE [A] 14 lines
WHINE [A] 14 lines
Today is the Day
RORY [A] 25 lines
JULE [A] 25 lines
Words Wonderful
AMPERSAND [A] 1 line
One Monologue
Dance Break
HART [A] 28 lines
TRU [A] 28 lines
One Horse Town
CO (COVID) [A] 22 lines
PESTILENCE [A] 18 lines
FAMINE [A] 16 lines
First Period Check-in (2)
HAPPY [A] 19 lines
GLAD [A] 10 lines
CHEERFUL [A] 16 lines
FINE [A] 21 lines
Words Wonderful
AMPERSAND [A] 1 line
One Monologue
Future School Fine?
AKI [A] 34 lines
LUNE [A] 34 lines
The Date
STEVIE [A] 15 lines
WYNN [A] 15 lines
Holding Hands
RAIN [A] 20 lines
MANI [A] 20 lines
Words Wonderful
AMPERSAND [A] 1 line
One monologue

Subgenres
Historic Issue-based

Settings
Present day

Dress
Contemporary costumes Simple costumes

Audience
Pre-teen Teen

Features
Gender neutral cast Online Performance Variable Cast Size Variable gender breakdown Ensemble Multimedia Multiple endings Student directors Variable length

Set
Simple set

Cautions
Frank talk of death

Themes
Adolescence Anxiety Death Depression Family Friendship Happiness Illness/Health Overcoming odds Relationships Technology

Cross-Curricular Uses
English History Science

Other uses
Class work Competition Monologues Scene work

Multimedia

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