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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> Help me with my short play for drama?Question: Help me with my short play for drama!? i'm in drama 8!.
we got paired up with a partner to do a short play!. we had to think of a problem by ourselves!. mine and my partners problem is that my pet platopus "yeoman" goes missing under her care!. then she's scared she might get fired from her job cause she lost my pet!. then we find him eventually!. we still need a script though!. just a short one!. can you help me with a script and what we should do and say in our play!? can it be funny too!? we need humor!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It sounds like you can get away with a LOT of physical comedy, instead of relying completely on writing, which is good!. Have the majority of the play be her searching for the platypus, while also trying to keep its disappearance a secret from you!. To make it even better, maybe your partner's character has something physically wrong with her that adds to the chaos as she scrambles to find it without you noticing!.!.!. she was at the beach and has excruciating sunburn ALL over her backside, she was on a ski-trip and had to spend a week at the hospital because of a broken leg and has to hobble around on crutches!. Or maybe she's always been terrified of your platypus, and is simultaneously terrified about finding it and terrified about not finding it!. These kinds of things will add a lot to the humor without needing witty or original dialogue!. It can be as simple as: Boss: Janet! You're late! Janet: I'm so sorry!. I had to get some aloe from the drugstore because of this horrible sunburn!. I'll stay late today to make up for it!. Boss: You'd better not let this be a habit!. It's bad enough that you spent a week in Jamaica during the busiest time of the year, and for no reason!. Janet: It was my honeymoon--- Boss: Next time you get married, don't plan it at such an inconvenient time! Now get to work!. also, keep an eye on Yeoman today!.!.!. my pet-sitter, another unreliable employee, got herself into the hospital getting a parasite removed-- Janet: Isn't your pet-sitter like 9 months pregnant!? Boss: Not anymore!.!.!. lousy maternity leave!.!.!. I'm out to a business meeting, and when i get back, your to-do pile better be at least halfway gone! (Janet waits until boss is gone, starts to apply aloe, is in obvious, debilitating pain!. tries to sit down!. every part of her is burned, especially inside her elbow and behind her knees!. she tries to get through one of the many things on her to-do pile!. gets up to make a scan, realizes that Yeoman is gone) Janet: Yeoman!? Yeoman! How did he get out of his cage!? OUCH! (Janet bends her arms too much and it burns!. She sees Yeoman on the other side of the office, under a desk!.) Janet: Yeoman! Come out! Do you want a treat!? (Janet pours an entire bag of treats into yeoman's cage) Janet: Thaaat's it!.!.!. come out! (Janet stares at Yeoman as he goes towards the cage!. Janet bumps into a desk and yelps with pain) Janet: YEOCH! Oh no! Yeoman, come out, I didn't mean to scare you I just!.!.!.!. ahhhh that hurt!.!.!. And just go on from there =) sounds like it could be really funny! You can make it as short or as long as you need to, but be creative and keep it physically humorousWww@QuestionHome@Com Depends on how short!. You could call it The Perils of a Platopus!. Www@QuestionHome@Com introduce characters problem problem fixed the end Www@QuestionHome@Com You should stop making people online do your homework for you!. You're the one that signed up for drama class!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |