Something Bad is Happening
by Bradley Walton
A friend disappears from an online session.
About 10 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
4
2 M | 2 W
Online Performance
Four friends meet up online over summer vacation. When one walks away from their screen and doesn’t come back, the others imagine the worst. But what if the worst isn’t a horror movie but learning the truth from your friends?
Written specifically to be performed on an online platform.
Characters
4
2 Men, 2 Women
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.
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MAX
[M]
60 lines
- A teenager stuck at home in Virginia while his friends are all on vacation.
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TAYLOR
[W]
62 lines
- A horror movie fan traveling with her family in Kansas.
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CARTER
[M]
58 lines
- A prankster who likes to make bets, visiting with family at a beach house in North Carolina.
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DREW
[W]
28 lines
- Visiting her grandfather at an isolated Oregon cabin.
- Settings
- Present day
- Dress
- Contemporary costumes
- Audience
- Teen
- Features
- Online Performance
- Set
- Simple set
- Themes
- Adolescence Friendship Peer pressure Personal responsibility
- Cross-Curricular Uses
- Social studies
- Other uses
- Scene work
Multimedia
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Something Bad is Happening
by Bradley Walton
About 10 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
4
2 M | 2 W
Online Performance