The Away-Day
Satire, dare to trust
- Satire
- Scene for 3
- 3 min
- Male role
- Adult
- Intermediate
Casting
11 lines- LA COACH Female role, Adult
- TAREK Male role, Adult your role
- SOPHIE Female role, Adult
Excerpt
(A seminar room. An over-excited coach. Two employees, arms crossed.)
LA COACH
Welcome to “Dare to Trust” day! First exercise: we fall backwards, the other catches us.
TAREK
And if the other doesn’t catch?
LA COACH
Then we’ll have learned something about the team!
SOPHIE
Mostly we’ll have learned that Tarek is on the floor.
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