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This Phone Will Explode at the Tone

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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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

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