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Take One

  • James L. Seay
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 9M, 16F
  • ISBN: 9780874406139

The pared down school budget just won't accommodate Miss Harris' course in the great silent movie comedies.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
The pared down school budget just won't accommodate Miss Harris' course in the great silent movie comedies. The students, however, are fascinated by the subject, and decide to make a movie on their own. 

Then the self-appointed head of the economy committee starts looking for a victim, and Miss Harris and these clever and creative kids find themselves in a madcap scramble worthy of Max Sennett or Chaplin himself!

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 16F
  • Casting Notes: The REPORTER can be played by either a male or a female.

  • MRS. BAKER - the head of a self-appointed taxpayer's watchdog committe
    DR. TWIDDLE - a temporary principal of Millard Fillmore High School
    MISS HARRIS - a young, pretty drama teacher and former actress
    C.B. - a budding student director
    AVIS - C.B.'s girlfriend
    CELESTE - the 'femme fatale'
    BEEF JERKY - the cocky, egocentric captain of the football team
    DUMPTRUCK KLUTZMANN - a not-too-bright football player
    MR. GALLAGHER - a young investigator of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction
    REPORTER - a member of the local press
    MRS. CUNNINGHAM - president of the P.T.A.
    MRS. BRUMPY - literature teacher at Millard Filmore High School
    MISS F-STOP U.S.A. - representative of the motion picture industry
    MRS. TWIDDLE - Dr. Twiddle's wife
    FIRST MOTHER - member of the P.T.A.
    SECOND MOTHER - another member of the P.T.A.
    HOLLY, IVY, NOEL, WALLY, CHESTER, BRYAN, EUPHEMIA, BETHULIA, HERBIE - students in Miss Harris' drama class

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    The pared down school budget just won't accommodate Miss Harris' course in the great silent movie comedies. The students, however, are fascinated by the subject, and decide to make a movie on their own. 

    Then the self-appointed head of the economy committee starts looking for a victim, and Miss Harris and these clever and creative kids find themselves in a madcap scramble worthy of Max Sennett or Chaplin himself!

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