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Wait Wait Bo Bait

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... What are you waiting for, right now?

Christmas to come? The phone to ring? Class to be over? The man of your dreams? The line to move? The answer? To be yelled at for setting a toilet on fire?

We all have to wait. How long will you? Could you wait all day, or is it killing you? Are you staring at the phone, the line, the door, a clock? A watched clock never boils you know...

Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

This is a vignette play!

Also available in a middle-school version here.

Recommended for High Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 20 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
6 Characters
2 M 4 F
Easily Expandable
Set
Simple Set
Length
22 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.

6 Characters

  • 2 Males
  • 4 Females
  • 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.

  • Woman One Female 18 lines
  • Woman Two Female 6 lines
  • Woman Three Female 34 lines
  • Woman Four Female 26 lines
  • Man One Male 31 lines
  • Man Two Male 28 lines

Praise for Wait Wait Bo Bait

5 out of 5 stars
Lisa Evans
Fennimore Middle and High School
It was well accepted by the student body and the middle school and high school audience found it entertaining and interesting. It was able to be performed with a minimum of props and set pieces.
5 out of 5 stars
Deborah McKie
Phoenix Theatre
This play was great fun to work with from start to finish. It was easy to split up into pieces that needed more attention and easy to set. One audience member commented that they thoroughly enjoyed the vignette style versus a linear plot. Wonderfully simple to direct and set in the short period of time we had to pull the show together!
5 out of 5 stars
Doug Parks
Parkersburg South High School
It's my second time directing it and we had a great time. We were selected to take it on to our state competition! This is my first year as the director of the program at PSHS and I couldn't be happier.

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