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1-800
ISBN: 978-1-61588-374-5
Type: Duet
Genre: Comedy
Theme: Telephone
Duration: 10 minutes
Speaking Cast: 1 male, 1 either (2 total cast)
Flexibility: gender flexible
SYNOPSIS: A simple phone call to an automated banking system turns into a humorous battle of wits between a computer-generated voice and a frustrated customer, leaving us to wonder if computers have already taken over the world. The phone voice may be played by a man or a woman.
Bertrand High School Bertrand, NE Parkers Prairie High School Parkers Prairie, MN SJA Kansas City, MO Spalding Academy Burwell, NE Ortonville Public Schools Ortonville, MN Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE1 Cripple Creek, CO Centennial High School Utica, NE Iowa-Grant High School Livingston, WI Central High School East Orange, NJ Saint Albert Schools Council Bluffs, IA Cedar Catholic High School Hartington, NE Jackson High School Mill Creek, WA Sauk Prairie Schools Prairie du Sac, WI Shelton Public School Shelton, NE Howard-Suamico School District GREEN BAY, WI Natrona County High School Casper, WY Riverdale High School Port Byron, IL Creighton Public School Creighton, NE Lakeview Fredonia, PA International school of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland Don Bosco Gilbertville, IA Colgan High School Manassas, VA Sioux Center CSD Sioux Center, IA Morgan Park Academy Oak Lawn, IL Fort Defiance High School Fort Defiance, VA Wellington High School Wellington, OH Enloe Magnet High School Raleigh, NC Altavista Combined School Altavista, VA Blaine High School Blaine, MN Eisenhower Middle School San Antonio, TX Blackfoot High School Blackfoot, ID Canton High School Canton, IL MCHS Debate Hyrum, UT Oakville Senior High School Speech and Debate St. Louis, MO Pocatello High School POCATELLO, ID Tri-Valley High School Downs, IL DHS Debate Durant, OK Evansville Day School Evansville, IN University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA St. Ansgar High School St. Ansgar, IA
This play pretty much wrote itself from notes I took while choosing options at a variety of 800 numbers. I may have exaggerated a bit here and there but not by much. I think the reason it works is that we’ve all been in similar situations.
Flint Hills Christian School Stuarts Point Players, Ian Yates playing the role of Frank.
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