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Ghosts in the Machine

  • Eric Coble
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 8M or F
  • ISBN: GD8

A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Comedy
  • 70 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
It begins after lunch on Melissa's phone. Someone she doesn't know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don't recognise -- budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What's going on? And what if it's not people connecting with other people via their phones... but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people.

A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

REVIEWS:

"Funny and mysterious."

 OnMilwaukee

"Incredibly funny [and] thought provoking."

 OnMilwaukee

"A multi-tiered look that manages to walk right down the middle of the gulf between texters and texting-haters."

 OnMilwaukee

"Clue meets The Breakfast Club, with a little bit of Horton Hears a Who, for good measure."

 Ozaukee Living Local

"Fast-paced, funny, mystery."

 Ozaukee Living Local

  • Casting: 8M or F

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It begins after lunch on Melissa's phone. Someone she doesn't know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don't recognise -- budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What's going on? And what if it's not people connecting with other people via their phones... but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people.

A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

$19.95