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Love Bites (Cummings)

  • Greg Cummings
  • Short Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780874402315

A ten year old girl needs to convince the new kid in school, a lonely nine year old boy, that sharing a sandwich is NOT like kissing.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 10 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Community Theatre, Shoestring Budget
A ten year old girl needs to convince the new kid in school, a lonely nine year old boy, that sharing a sandwich is NOT like kissing.

Published in Kiss, Then Tell.

Premiere Production: Love Bites premiered as part of Kiss, Then Tell at the La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California on Friday, February 5, 1999. The production was directed by Greg Cummings, who wrote the play as a result of a year-long playwriting residency funded by The Panta Rhea Foundation.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Features Teens

JENNIFER - 10
GARY - 9