LOW BATTERY – A COMEDY ABOUT A WEDDING NIGHT

Newly weds Johnny and Janey have just arrived in their hotel room (which Janey’s wealthy father has paid for). It’s their wedding night and everything should be perfect but it frankly it isn’t. Johnny’s in a bad mood because he did not win a car at the state fair, Larry Rockwell did. And the smoke detector has a low battery. It tells them this frequently.
They get past the lack of a new car, but the smoke detector keeps talking. Nothing pours cold water on intimacy faster than the robotic voice speaking the words “LOW BATTERY”  over and over again. Soon Johny is trying to do anything to stop the smoke detector with its low battery in this comedy about a wedding night.

Janey just wants to get a handyman, but not Johnny, because he’s worried that as Janey’s father paid for the room, he’ll think Johnny’s a whiner (but also suspects that Janey’s father really doesn’t like him and also that he has offered him a job just because he married Janey). Johnny’s so paranoid about Janey’s father he idly wonders if the hotel is filled with spies sent by Janey’s father to watch them battle it out with the smoke detector.

The wedding night deteriorates further. Naturally (as a bride would), Janey then starts to have a bit of a melt down, as a result Johnny relents and phones for the handyman. But now it’s Janey’s turn. She has doubts. Did she do the right thing, marrying this paranoid man who seems to care more about her dad than her wedding night? Johnny has to do a rapid about turn and calm her down.

Finally the handyman arrives, replaces the battery and leaves.

All is well, all is calm.

And then the smoke detector goes into full evacuation mode!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

“Low Battery” was produced to popular acclaim at Pennsylvania’s Shawnee Playhouse in 2022, and Chris Minichino is thrilled to be offering it via Off The Wall.

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Author: Chris Minichino

Type: One act Play

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 1M 1F 3N

Ages of the actors: Adult

Length: 35-45 minutes

Set: The bridal suite of a deluxe hotel

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – The two main actors should be able to potray a growing sense of frustration comically to the audience

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Copyright © March 2024 Chris Minichino

Like this play? Other plays about newly weds:

Don’t Tell! Comedy about Newly Weds
Marriages – comedy love story about a man who gets married too many times
Double Booked – a farcical comedy set in a church