Nightmare Campout, The

One-Acts 20

By: Geff Moyer
Cast: 5 F (With doubling: 4 F)
Performance Time: Approximately 30 mins, 30 pgs.

COMEDY. It’s getting dark, and four Girl Scouts are lost in a wooded area. Their imaginations run wild as they think they hear growling grizzly bears, screeching vampires, hissing snakes, and the humming of an alien UFO. Spooked by all the creepy nighttime noises, the girls call upon their Scout training and do the only thing they know how to do to ward off threats. With quickness and precision, moving and grunting in unison, they form a Spartan military phalanx, standing shoulder to shoulder with one arm raised as if holding a shield and the other hand with fist clenched. As the girls wait to be rescued, secrets emerge like who in the group has a crush on Hairy Gary Whitlock, who ate dog poop, who snuck over to the boys’ camp, and who turns their underwear inside out and wears them another day? Easy to stage. Nonstop laughs!

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Geff Moyer is a retired high school theatre and creative writing instructor/director. For many years, Mr. Moyer served as Resident Director for the Olathe Community Theatre Association. Each summer he takes a 2-week hiking trip into the back trails and ghost towns of the Old West. Mr. Moyer lives in the Kansas City area with his wife Cathy. They have three sons and two granddaughters.