School Spirits

Full-Lengths

By: Daniel O'Donnell
Cast: 8 M, 6 F, opt. extras
Performance Time: Approximately 90 mins, 90 pgs.

FARCE. Mr. Smite, a greedy school principal, has hatched a plan to get rich by cutting back on school expenses, pocketing the savings, and using the money to buy land to sell to the school district at inflated prices. The principal’s outrageous cutbacks have made life miserable for the teachers and students at his school. To save money, the cooks have to serve pizza rolls every day in the cafeteria, and to reduce the electric bills, the students have to eat the pizza rolls frozen! Not to mention the fact there’s no toilet paper, no pencils, and the textbooks are almost as old as the school itself, which has been around for 100 years! But a dedicated teacher, some students, a couple of lovable ghosts, and a nervous school secretary, have set out to save their beloved school and foil Mr. Smite’s dreams of traveling the world in a gold Cadillac.

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Daniel O’Donnell is an award-winning playwright who has written and directed numerous plays for high school and community theatre. He serves as the drama director at Freeport Junior High School. Mr. O’Donnell lives in Freeport, PA, with his wife, Linda, and has two sons and a daughter.