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This Phone Will Explode at the Tone

by Lindsay Price

The phone. The most beautiful, the most wonderful communication device in all the world. Or is it...

Without the phone there'd be no obscene callers, no chatty Cathys who won't shut up, telemarketers who think the sun rises and sets with carpet cleaning, no awkward silences, no pressure to have an interesting phone message with all the bells and whistles.

And there'd be no Harry.

Poor Harry. Poor sweet desperate Harry, desperately trying to get up the nerve to call a girl and ask her to the dance. Don't hang up on Harry. Don't you dare! Don't do it!

Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

This is a vignette play!

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Running Time

About 20 minutes

Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes

Cast

4 Characters

2 M | 2 F, Expandable to 33

Set

Simple Set

Length

20 pages

Free Excerpt

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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.

4 Characters
2 M, 2 F, Expandable to 33

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.

MAN ONE [M] 61 lines

MAN TWO: 52 [M] 52 lines

WOMAN ONE: 51 [F] 51 lines

WOMAN TWO: 76 [F] 76 lines