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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Phrase: The world's tallest man is sitting in that hatchback. Scene: Widebottom Manor in the wealthy westerns suburbs of Philadelphia's Main Line region. Chris Colgan - gardener. Pugnacious Widebottom - Former secretary of the navy under President Ronald Reagan. Lucy Widebottom - layabout. Narrator - good guy, nice haircut. Mr Colgan, I can see your feet! Pugnacious Widebottom: (Mind recoiling in horror) Mr. Colgan, please! You'll upset my niece. Chris Colgan: (Feels about his...

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Ten Minute Plays: Hayden and Hannah Skydive

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Friday, January 25, 2008. Hayden and Hannah Skydive. Act II, wherein we rejoin Hayden and Hannah. Hayden, for his birthday decided to go skydiving with Hannah, who happens to be a skydiving instructor, conveniently. They’re about 30,000 feet up strapped together. Hayden: So I’ve been making some really bad decisions lately. Hannah: Like squatting at my work and getting me fired. Hannah: You said you hurt it chopping wood in the backyard! Hannah: You tackled your aunt? Hayden: My favorite one. The piss is...

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Ten Minute Plays: January 2008

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Friday, January 25, 2008. Hayden and Hannah Skydive. Act II, wherein we rejoin Hayden and Hannah. Hayden, for his birthday decided to go skydiving with Hannah, who happens to be a skydiving instructor, conveniently. They’re about 30,000 feet up strapped together. Hayden: So I’ve been making some really bad decisions lately. Hannah: Like squatting at my work and getting me fired. Hannah: You said you hurt it chopping wood in the backyard! Hannah: You tackled your aunt? Hayden: My favorite one. The piss is...

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Ten Minute Plays

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Thursday, January 24, 2008. You guys are damn inspiring. Here's my humble attempt:. The Scene: The 210 Freeway in Los Angeles. Rush Hour.*. The scenesters: Hannah, a recent grad driving to her first day on the job,. Carpooling with Hayden, her boyfriend. Hannah: I can't believe you're coming with me to work.*. Hayden: I have to. Otherwise our carbon footprint will just be ridiculous.*. Hannah: But how does you coming with me to work even help that? Hannah: But you don't even have a job! Subscribe to: Pos...

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Ten Minute Plays

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Thursday, January 24, 2008. A play in ten minutes. Required phrase: For example, I blew out my shoulder wrestling a suspected home intruder to the ground three weeks ago and it turned out to be my aunt. Setting: Auditorium. Media ethics seminar. Standing room only. It is cold outside, the room is overheated, the players sleepy, heavy lies the CO2 in the air. The lecture draws to a close, and the questions begin. The doctor drones on. The audience passes a flask of Jameson’s. Ruprect has han...Giggles in ...

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Ten Minute Plays

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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Fat woman (Sally)(drinking Mountain Dew from a 60-ounce 7/11 mug):. So Chester, I'm driving my car down the road and a truck pulls out in front of me. The license plate read "Doomed". Isn't that fucking bizarre? Who has their license plate personalized to say doomed? That's fucking weird. I don't like it. And I don't understand it. And I don't like where this country is headed. We're fucked. Ya know what I mean? Skinny man (chester) (eating Bagel Chips): I guess. Scene - - -.

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Ten Minute Plays

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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Phrase: The world's tallest man is sitting in that hatchback. Scene: DynaGen Labs, San Fernando, CA. Sally and Chester are on a tour. Tour Guide: Through the window on your left you will see our geneticists separating the DNA from as-yet unassigned stem-cells. The strands are then spliced and reinserted into those same cells. They are then incubated. Sally: Spliced with what? S to Chester: That wasn't really an answer. C: Did he say literally limitless? C: Did he say products?

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Ten Minute Plays

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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Place: Outside Ad-LAN-na, Georgia (i.e. The South). NORTHERNER — A boyish man of indeterminate age. Effeminate. MAN WITH THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT — Mysterious and beguiling character who drives the action of the play. Excuse me, sir, could you direct me to the nearest eatery? MAN WITH THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT. Which cannot be properly recreated in prose). Well, near bout as close to an eatery as we got's bout near as a bar of soap after a day's washin'. MAN WITH THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT.