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Baker's Dozen

Baker's Dozen

By Pat Cook.

Product Code: B62000

One-act Play

Comedy

Cast size: 3m., 3w.


Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available


Rights and availability

This title can be licensed and sold throughout the World.

* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

Synopsis

In this hilarious story of the bond between two brothers, Jeffy and Jimmy Baker, we are taken back by the now-grown Jeff to look in on "the summer I learned not to take things...or people for granted...That was the summer I was thirteen." Jeff shows us that summer through conversations with the boy he was then and through his logbook. "Now this wasn't a diary. No, no. Men didn't keep diaries, they kept logbooks...you know, like Captain Ahab and Captain Nemo." Jeffy discovers girls that summer—"If there was a toss-up between basketball and girls, I didn't see any contest. I mean anybody could get a basketball." And, of course, older brother Jimmy is a star basketball player, that is until his swimming accident when he badly cuts his leg and his recovery is in question. Through the kind of cajoling and connection that is uniquely "brotherly," Jeff helps Jimmy pull through. In a tender moment as he fully realizes his brother's devotion, Jimmy tries to walk for the first time and asks for his younger brother's help—" Come on. Mother is always saying how we never do anything together!"

Notes

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Details

  • Status In stock
  • Type of Show One-act Play
  • Product Code B62000
  • Minimum Cast Size 6
  • Pages of Dialogue 25
  • Min. Royalty Rate $40.00/perf
  • Approx. Run Time 30 min
  • Staging One int. set.

Categories

  • Target Audience Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults | Praise Groups
  • Performing Group Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Praise Group
  • Genre Comedy
  • ISBN(13) 9780871296962

* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Customer Reviews

Baker's Dozen was a fantastic piece for competition that allowed our student actors the opportunity to stretch themselves and take our audience on an emotional roller coaster.

Kevin Wassenaar, Central Minnesota Christian School, Prinsburg, Minn.

Hints, Tips, and Tricks

Lighting effects can help so much to show the memory parts and the conversations between the older Jeff and the 13 year old boy he was then.

Sharon Garret, Longfellow Junior High, Enid, Okla.