Scene Overview

Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
The Present Day, an American High School
Act/Scene
Act 1

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Context

Bobby and Rowan come to ask Ms. Unger if she will be faculty advisor for The Undertakers Club.

Text

BOBBY: Ahem. ‘Scuse me—Ms. Unger?

MS. UNGER: Yes?

BOBBY: It’s Bobby Lazar—Myrna Lazar is my mom.

MS. UNGER: Oh hi, Bobby. I didn’t recognize you. How are you?

BOBBY: Fine. Um, I’d like you to meet my friend Rowan Wilkinson.

ROWAN: Hi.

MS. UNGER: How do you do?

ROWAN: Fine thanks.

MS. UNGER: So what are you two up to?

BOBBY: Well, uh, actually, we came to talk to you.

MS. UNGER: Really? What about?

BOBBY: It’s about a club we’ve started, and we’re looking for a faculty advisor.

MS. UNGER: Gracious—I’m flattered. What kind of club is it?

BOBBY: It’s The Undertakers Cl—

ROWAN: The Future Funeral Directors of America.

MS. UNGER: The Future Funeral Directors of America? So, what do you do? Go out and have grave-digging contests?

ROWAN: No, it’s serious. We stage mock funerals, and we study the art of embalming and its history, and human anatomy, and how to perform an autopsy . . .

MS. UNGER: You are serious, aren’t you?

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