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Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

  • Eric Coble
  • One Act, Drama, Comedy, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 7M or F
  • ISBN: GD9

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

  • One Act
  • Drama, Comedy
  • 40 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:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
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 recognize -- 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 one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

  • Casting: 7M 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 recognize -- 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 one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

$19.95