Cheerfully Geeky, Dramatically Bullish, Talentless Talent Show, The

One-Acts 20

By: Lavinia Roberts
Cast: 4 F, 13 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes, 25 pgs

COMEDY. To raise enough money to paint the kiwi-green gymnasium another color, students have organized a school talent show. The contestants include drama kids acting out the death scenes from every Shakespeare play, a math club member playing chess against himself, cheerleaders performing a soliloquy from Hamlet as a group cheer, and a talentless student who tries to play the flute, ballet dance, perform rope tricks with a lasso, and disco dance. In the end, this may prove to be the world’s first talentless talent show!

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Lavinia Roberts is an award-winning playwright and educator. She has a MA in Theatre Education from New York University and an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University. Roberts has been a theatre teacher for more than a decade. She is an Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow in Theatre Arts at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.