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Pandemic Pancake

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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.

Dramedy Issue-Based Vignettes

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

This is a vignette play!

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 35 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
34 Characters
34 Any Gender
Set
Simple set
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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 Any gender 2 lines
  • TWO Any gender 2 lines
  • THREE Any gender 3 lines
  • FOUR Any gender 3 lines
  • FIVE Any gender 1 line
  • SIX Any gender 1 line
  • SEVEN Any gender 5 lines
  • EIGHT Any gender 4 lines
  • NINE Any gender 3 lines
  • TEN Any gender 3 lines
  • ELEVEN Any gender 1 line
  • TWELVE Any gender 1 line

First Period Check-in

  • HAPPY Any gender 7 lines
  • GLAD Any gender 7 lines
  • CHEERFUL Any gender 8 lines

Professor Fun

  • PROFESSOR Any gender 1 line
    One monologue

Unfair

  • MOAN Any gender 12 lines
  • GRIPE Any gender 14 lines
  • WHINE Any gender 14 lines

Today is the Day

  • RORY Any gender 25 lines
  • JULE Any gender 25 lines

Words Wonderful

  • AMPERSAND Any gender 1 line
    One Monologue

Dance Break

  • HART Any gender 28 lines
  • TRU Any gender 28 lines

One Horse Town

  • CO (COVID) Any gender 22 lines
  • PESTILENCE Any gender 18 lines
  • FAMINE Any gender 16 lines

First Period Check-in (2)

  • HAPPY Any gender 19 lines
  • GLAD Any gender 10 lines
  • CHEERFUL Any gender 16 lines
  • FINE Any gender 21 lines

Words Wonderful

  • AMPERSAND Any gender 1 line
    One Monologue

Future School Fine?

  • AKI Any gender 34 lines
  • LUNE Any gender 34 lines
  • The Date
  • STEVIE Any gender 15 lines
  • WYNN Any gender 15 lines

Holding Hands

  • RAIN Any gender 20 lines
  • MANI Any gender 20 lines

Words Wonderful

  • AMPERSAND Any gender 1 line
    One monologue

Praise for Pandemic Pancake

5 out of 5 stars
Joanna Edie
The Langley School
Pandemic Pancake was our first virtual play and it was exactly what we needed. The fact that every scene takes place on a video platform took away any pressure to create an in-person feel, or ask the audience to believe the actors were in the same room. The content was timely and meaningful. We laughed, we cried, we got major kudos from the school community.

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