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ths phne 2.0: the next generation

by Lindsay Price

Communication has come a long way, baby. Are you 21st century savvy?

Blog your innermost thoughts. Break up by text. Express your deepest emotions through ringtones and smilies. AND YELL!

You can buy a phone that does dishes, cooks a mean steak and folds socks. Well, perhaps not yet. But you wait, the sock folding cell phone is just around the corner...

Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

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This is a vignette play!

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 30 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
5 Characters
2 M3 F, Easily Expandable
Set
Simple Set
Length
27 pages
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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.

5 Characters

2 M, 3 F, Easily Expandable

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.

Actor One. Male. 57 lines. One monologue.
Actor Two. Female. 65 lines. One monologue.
Actor Three. Female. 94 lines.
Actor Four. Male. 68 lines. One monologue.
Actor Five. Female. 64 lines. One monologue.
“Look What I Got…” #1
Actor Three [F] 1 line
Actor Four [M] 4 lines
Actor Five [F] 2 lines
“We’re texting our dialogue”
Actor One [M] 6 lines
Actor Two [F] 4 lines
Actor Three [F] 6 lines
Actor Four [M] 4 lines
Actor Five [F] 5 lines
“Yes Mother…”
Actor Four [M] 11 lines
Actor Five [F] 0 lines
“Oh Woe!”
Actor One [M] 0 lines
Actor Two [F] 5 lines
Actor Three [F] 6 lines
Actor Four [M] 7 lines
Actor Five [F] 10 lines
“You’ve reached Jeremy…”
Actor One [M]
One monologue.
“I got service!”
Actor One [M] 1 line
Extensive miming
Actor Two [F] 1 line
Extensive miming
Actor Three [F] 1 line
Extensive miming
Actor Four [M] 1 line
Extensive miming
Actor Five [F] 1 line
Extensive miming
“Gather ‘round children…”
Actor One [M] 3 lines
Actor Two [F] 3 lines
Actor Three [F] 4 lines
Actor Four [M] 4 lines
Actor Five [F] 14 lines
“A cellphone starts to ring…”
Actor One [M] 4 lines
Actor Two [F] 2 lines
Actor Three [F] 4 lines
Actor Four [M] 1 line
Actor Five [F] 2 lines
“Hv goo dy…”
Actor Five [F]
One monologue.
“Look What I Got…” #2
Actor Four [M] 3 lines
Actor Five [F] 2 lines
“This is great..”
Actor One [M] 17 lines
Actor Two [F] 11 lines
Actor Three [F] 20 lines
“What? Hello?”
Actor Two [F] 8 lines
Actor Three [F] 8 lines
Actor Five [F] 9 lines
“Hey Steve…”
Actor One [M] 9 lines
Actor Four [M] 10 lines
One monologue.
“Email Etiquette”
Actor Two [F]
One monologue.
“Date. Time. Subject. Current Mood?”
Actor One [M] 8 lines
Actor Two [F] 7 lines
Actor Three [F] 9 lines
Actor Four [M] 8 lines
Actor Five [F] 6 lines
“Look What I Got…” #3
Actor Four [M] 6 lines
Actor Five [F] 5 lines
“So You ARE Alive”
Actor Two [F] 11 lines
Actor Three [F] 10 lines
Actor One [M] 8 lines
Actor Five [F] 8 lines
“No I can’t talk now.”
Actor Two [F] 12 lines
Actor Three [F] 24 lines
Actor Four [M] 12 lines
“Look What I Got…” #4
Actor One [M] 2 lines
Actor Two [F] 2 lines
Actor Three [F] 2 lines
Actor Four [M] 4 lines
Actor Five [F] 4 lines

Praise for ths phne 2.0: the next generation

Claire Broome
Centauri Summer Arts Camp
It was a very cool experience.
Barbara Banauch
GRG Laaer-Berg-Straße
The stage directions worked well, and it was fun for the audience to watch.
Laurie Yost
Ellsworth Community School
We had a great time doing this play. It was really easy to tweak parts depending on the number of students we had. The audience loved it because it was very applicable to real life.

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