Elephants, Allergies, and Iguana Chanukah: Audio Plays

By Elaine A. Powers

Elephants, Allergies, and Iguana Chanukah is a collection of one act length comedy audio theater scripts. The scripts require multiple actors and are well-suited for presentation by school and community theaters. Joy’s Bug’s Blues tells of an unfortunate encounter with an elephant. In Take Your Best Shot, a man develops allergies to political parties but his allergist has the cure. The Gift is a Chanukah tale involving the rescue of an injured iguana and its impact on the family members, both human and iguana. Performance rights are included with script purchase.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elaine A. Powers
• Release date: Sep 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311938329

Elaine A. Powers

I’m a native of Peoria, IL. I enjoyed the opportunity to grow up in the theater community made famous during vaudeville days: "will it play in Peoria? During my life, I have been involved in a great deal of theater and singing as well as being a biologist Eventually, I progressed to writing short scripts for the stage and full-length scripts for radio theater. Several of the radio scripts were produced in NJ and NY by various theater companies and one has been recorded and released.The greatest inspirations for my writing are my iguanas, my personal pets and the iguanas who passed through my iguana rescue in NJ. I am currently writing children’s stories as well as murder mysteries. So many stories, so little time.I live with my iguanas (4 species), tortoises, tegus, and turtle.Other books include Conversations with Dudley Dewlap: The World from a Lizard Point of View (audio theater scripts), and Curtis Curly-tail and the Ship of Sneakers. Both are available in print on Amazon.com.

Book preview

ELEPHANTS, ALLERGIES, AND

IGUANA CHANUKAH

Audio Plays

by Elaine A. Powers

Elephants, Allergies, and Iguana Chanukah

By Elaine A. Powers

Published by Elaine A. Powers

Copyright © 2014 by Elaine A. Powers.

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1311938329

NOTICE: These scripts may be performed with the purchase of a copy of this book for each performer and participant in the production, and with proper credit to the author. The scripts may be performed in combination or individually. They may be performed as radio/audio theater, reader’s theater, or staged with costumes. The scripts must be performed as written.

Dedication

To my parents, Dr. Norman E. Powers and

Gladys Crofts Powers

for encouraging my creativity and teaching me

about the joy of life.

To the people of Hunterdon Radio Theater

who gave voice to my scripts.

To the members of the Oncology Memorial Lunch Table in Bridgewater, NJ, who provided so much inspiration.

To Ruth Bittner, her parents Morris and Clarissa Bittner, and Herr Alt

Table of Contents

Production Notes

Elephants: Joy’s Bug’s Blues, A True Story

Allergies: Take Your Best Shot

Iguana Chanukah: The Gift

PRODUCTION NOTES

These scripts may be performed with the purchase of a copy of this book for each performer and participant in the production, and with proper credit to the author. The scripts may be performed in combination or individually. They may be performed as radio/audio theater, reader’s theater, or staged with costumes. The scripts must be performed as written.

The sound effects and music cues are capitalized in italics with underlining. Some punctuation has been eliminated to assist in the flow of the reading. Acting suggestions are given in italics within parentheses with underlining.

Definitions

BITE CUE: This line interrupts the previous line.

WALLA WALLA: background crowd noises.

OFF MIC: off microphone, sounding as if from a distance and not projected directly into a microphone.

(Return to the Table of Contents)

JOY’S BUG’S BLUES, a true story

By Gladys C. Powers and Elaine A. Powers

Characters

Joy – young (21-23 years old), lively woman

Neighbor – older adult, man or woman

Ringmaster – loud, distinct voice, man

Circus worker – can have accent

Circus manager – authority figure

Policeman – young man

Sarge – heavy voice – man

Woman

Boy 1 (can be girl) Name can be used if desired

Boy 2 (can be girl) Name can be used if desired

SFX: OUTDOOR SOUNDS.

SFX: DOOR CLOSES, THEN FOOTSTEPS ON CONCRETE.

JOY: (singing): It’s a beautiful day. No work for me. Off to the circus we go, Buttercup and me!

NEIGHBOR: Good morning, Joy. You seem to be in a good mood today! What’s the reason, may I ask?

JOY: It is a beautiful day. I have the day off and I’m going to the circus! I haven’t been to the circus for ages so I’m going early, get a good parking spot and see everything – and I do mean EVERTHING – all the sideshows – some my folks wouldn’t let me go in! They said I was too young!

NEIGHBOR: Sounds great. Go to