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Pandemic Pancake

by Lindsay Price

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:

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 [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

Praise for Pandemic Pancake

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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