IMPERFECTLY SERIOUS – COMEDY OF THE ABSURD
A comedy of the absurd in which a dictatorial type manager is intellectually bested by a new young nobody in the office, gaining the new nobody the office and the girl. All because of the invention of a better type of paper dart and the unfortunate sabbatical of a superior co worker who has been sent up the river for his Mick Jagger impersonation obsession. In this play the characters do things that ordinary people only do in their heads, such as actually pretending to be cowboys when talking about John Wayne. It takes what happens in everyone’s imaginations as they talk into their realities and makes absurd actions a perfectly commonplace thing to do.
If you think that this is nonsensical, then you’ll have loads of fun performing this previously staged short script for three actors.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Chisholm Trail High School, TX, USA – 2017
West Tennessee Repertory Company, TN, USA – 2019
Read more about playwright Keith Passmore. Other comedies (Well I never – comedy sketch for three women) by Keith.
Author: Keith Passmore
Genre: Theatre of the absurd
Type: One act play
Cast: Three actors, 2M and 1F
Ages of the actors: One of the males can be slightly older than the other and the female should be attractive.
Suitable for: All ages
Length: Twenty minutes
Set: A 1980’s style office
Level of difficulty: 7/10 – switching from one set of absurd actions to another whilst keeping a straight face.
Read a Sample of the Script
Cost is $7.50 for this previously staged digital script. Just Click Shakespeare!
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Like this play? Have a look at our other absurdist plays:
Squawk – absurd one act comedy that’s for the birds!
Meeting Meryl – absurd comedy about being so nervous to meet Meryl Streep your dead father has to come back to make you do it
He’s a nervous Nellie – absurd comedy about a headstrong teen, her faulty psychiatrist and his overbearing wife