Help, people

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Omlette Shaper Member # 517	written Monday, July 14 2003 02:26 Profile #0 I've got to direct a play in a drama competition that lasts ~10-15 minutes. Preferrably comedy, and easy to act (This is an in-school competition, so the acting quality varies massively). The problem is, I'm an uncultured heathen, and I don't know of a single play that fits the bill. If anyone has any ideas, please please post them. (The rehearsing starts as soon as we get back in September. Yes, that leaves me a month and a half. I'll need it.) -E- -------------------- Let them eat cake! Polaris Boards: The System is Up. Perennially. Posts: 2314 | Registered: Tuesday, January 15 2002 08:00
qwd BANNED Member # 3121	written Monday, July 14 2003 02:30 Profile Homepage #1 Oh, but what could be better than Shakerspeare then? Ahem. -------------------- - WITH LOVE, THE OL' RELIABLE BOYLOVE, TO BE EXACT Posts: 761 | Registered: Thursday, June 19 2003 07:00
Drakefyre Triad Mage Member # 7	written Monday, July 14 2003 03:03 Profile Homepage #2 Look for something by Menander. Ancient Greek comedy is different from modern, but it's still very good. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Vahnatai Did Do It desperance.net - We're Everywhere The Arena - God Will Sort The Dead ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Daedalus Shock Trooper Member # 2300	written Monday, July 14 2003 03:04 Profile #3 I suppose you could cut a Shakespeare play down a bit....take Othello for instance... Act 1, Scene 1 [Enter Othello and Desdemona] Othello:Let us away to Cyprus where we may kill all the cruel Turks! Desdemona: I will away with thee, my liege! Othello: Away we go then! Desdemona: Othello, I love thee! [Exit] Act 2, Scene 1 [Enter Othello and his army] Othello: Oh dear, the Turks seem to have taken their leave. Well, shall we all go and get pissed? [Soldiers cheer] [Exit] Act 2, Scene 2 [Enter Othello and Iago] Iago: Beware the green-eyed monster with nasty big pointy teeth, my lord, for it will consume you. By the way, I am completely trustworthy. [Iago winks at audience] Othello:I have never doubted you, loyal Iago. Kiss me! Iago: Er.... [Exit] Act 3, Scene 1 [Enter Othello and Iago] Iago: I must tell you, my lord, that Desdemona has become a bit of a whore lately. Othello: Oh damnation! Well, that's all the proof I need my loyal Iago! Away to the lodging-house to murder the deceitful cur! [Exit Othello] Iago: Hee hee hee. [Exit Iago] Act 3, Scene 2 [Desdemona is lying reading a book] [Enter Othello] Othello: Aha! Desdemona: How do you, my - [Othello pulls out a dagger and stabs her] Desdemona: Oh dear, oh dear, the pain of it all! [Desdemona dies] [Enter Iago] Iago: Whoops, oh well, by the way I was only kidding. Othello: Oh mercy! [Othello stabs himself] Iago: Oh. [Iago shrugs and exits] END ......or you could not -------------------- Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." - Soviet infantry manual, 1930's Posts: 267 | Registered: Wednesday, November 27 2002 08:00
X Shaper Member # 496	written Monday, July 14 2003 03:48 Profile #4 There's that thing by Sam Beckett where they all walk around in circles in near-darkness for 15 minutes, moaning occassionally. Not a lot of lines to learn and the right length.... Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Sir David Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Member # 919	written Monday, July 14 2003 04:31 Profile #5 Does it have to be one that's already written? If not you could write one yourself... I don't know how many good comedies you're going to find that last 15 minutes, at most... and I guess if you can't write your own you could shorten a play, but I think one written specifically for 15 minutes would be better. Excluding that circle thing, of course... -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL Les forum de la chance. Incaseofemergency,breakglass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00
RentPeople Infiltrator Member # 2669	written Monday, July 14 2003 07:56 Profile Homepage #6 Oscar Wilde. I know he's got some one-acters, and you can't go wrong with good old flamboyant Oscar. -------------------- ... Posts: 647 | Registered: Wednesday, February 19 2003 08:00
Daedalus Shock Trooper Member # 2300	written Monday, July 14 2003 09:27 Profile #7 RentBoy is right - Oscar Wilde is great. -------------------- Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." - Soviet infantry manual, 1930's Posts: 267 | Registered: Wednesday, November 27 2002 08:00
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Monday, July 14 2003 09:41 Profile Homepage #8 The first act of Waiting for Godot! Or both acts, but you could just do it really quickly. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, July 14 2003 15:44 Profile Homepage #9 For a real suggestion, I'd advise David Ive's one-act play Sure Thing. It has a lot of lines and only two actors, though, so if you're short on time or skilled memorizers then I'd skip it. —Alorael, who is a fan of Psychoanalysis and The Bible as well. Both of them are a bit politically incorrect, though, and he can't remember the playwright(s) name(s). With titles like those, you can't really Google them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, July 14 2003 15:50 Profile #10 Can't help with that, Alorael, but would like to suggest John Osborne and Harold Pinter. Also, because I like him, Dario Fo. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00