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Broderick Adams

MAN wakes up suddenly in an empty store....

Overview

Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 0
  • Male: 4
Playing Age
Adult, Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
An abandoned store, April 1, 2020
Act/Scene
Act 1

Context

Text

MAN wakes up suddenly in an empty store. Looks around, confused. On one empty shelf there sits a small bottle of hand sanitizer.

BRODY

I will give you $500 for that bottle!!!

MAN

What?

BRODY

$500, that’s the last bottle of hand sanitizer in the whole city. You take Venmo?

MAN

Well, yeah. Wait, how can this be the only bottle left in the city?

BRODY Where have you been? OK hi, my name is Brody I work in on-line sales. There was an accident which led to a virus outbreak three weeks ago, nothing serious but time is money and I have a client…

DEREK (enters with scarf around his face from the outside)

Is that sanitizer?

BRODY

Whoa, we’re in the middle of a transaction here

DEREK

I am Brother Derek from First Church and we have been looking everywhere for sanitizer.

MAN

Yes, it’s the last in the city.

DEREK

You must give it to me. Our pastors are serving all the sick people they can and they must have that sanitizer.

RICKY (pops up from behind a shelf with laptop)

Can you guys keep it down? I am trying to concentrate.

MAN

What are you doing?

RICKY

Just in the middle of my video game. Have a raid in 10 minutes so I’m completing a quick sidequest and farming for new weapons.

DEREK

When was the last time you showered?

RICKY

Like I have time for that. Don’t worry I’ve got some dry shampoo (pulls out a bag of flourec and completes actions as he explains them) a dash of this massage the scalp. A bit of this in your pits to soak up some funk and then you mix a finger full in your mouth for toothpaste.

MAN

Why don’t you just use sanitizer?

RICKY

SANITIZER!!! Oh my gosh I need that! I got sandy bits in my sandy bits just give me a squeeze.

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