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Wait Wait Bo Bait

by Lindsay Price

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

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This is a vignette play!

Also available in a middle-school version here.

Recommended for High Schools

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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Performance Royalty Fees

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 M, 4 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.

Woman One [F] 18 lines

Woman Two [F] 6 lines

Woman Three [F] 34 lines

Woman Four [F] 26 lines

Man One [M] 31 lines

Man Two [M] 28 lines

Praise for Wait Wait Bo Bait

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.

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!

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.