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Paper or Plastic?
Paper or Plastic?
Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann.

Cast: 6m., 6w., 3 either gender. For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she's easily qualified to check out customers at Puritan Foods, her local grocery store. At least it has to be better than serving up greasy fast food, right? But Sarah isn't prepared for Carl, the assistant manager, who refuses to deal with unruly customers because he's too busy putting up Christmas displays in August. And she isn't ready to deal with the customer who can't put down her cell phone long enough to acknowledge that Sarah is there. Or the two dudes who use their time in the checkout line to launch into an existential argument about the environment. And what about the mysterious cowboy or, even worse, Angus, the person who Carl warns Sarah about the day she's hired. Then there are her crazy co-workers who put on camouflage to hunt down stray grocery carts or live in closets and subsist on Twizzlers to avoid Carl. All Sarah wants is the answer to the simplest question in the world: Paper or Plastic? High-school performers will love this zany comedy as it is great both for public performance and as competition material. Single set. Approximate running time: 40 minutes.

Play details
Status:  In Stock
Type of show:  One-Act
Catalog Code:  PB5
Cast Size:  15
No. of Act(s):  1
Pages:  26
Royalty:  $35.00 /perf.*
Cost:  $5.50
Approx. Running Time:  40 min.
Categories
Target Audience: YoungAudiences * Middle School * High School * College and Adult * Family (All Audiences)
Performing Group: Middle Schools * High Schools * College Theatre * Community Theatre
Genre: Comedy
ISBN (10): 1583425241
Publication Date: 10/22/2007
Biographies
Werner Trieschmann's numerous plays including Failing the Improv, You Have to Serve Somebody and Killers have been staged by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, The New Theatre in Boston, Mobtown Players in Baltimore and Red Octopus Productions in Little Rock, Arkansas. His full-length comedy You Have to Serve Somebody is published by Dramatic ...More
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This title can be licensed/sold throughout the world
Please note that royalties quoted in our catalog are intended for K-12 schools with a standard curriculum only. All other producing groups must submit a completed application.


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