NOBODY TO HANG OUT WITH
by Dina Kelberman

Characters
GREEN PERSON, a person dressed in identically colored green shirt, pants, shoes & hat.
BLUE PERSON, a person dressed in identically colored blue shirt, pants, shoes and hat.
RED PERSON, a person dressed in identically colored red shirt, pants, shoes and hat.
YELLOW PERSON, a person dressed in identically colored yellow shirt, pants, shoes and hat.
BROWN PERSON, a person dressed in identically colored brown shirt, pants, shoes and hat.

ACT I

Scene: A beautiful sunset. BLUE PERSON stands onstage off to the right. He/she is watering a patch of tulips with a watering can. GREEN PERSON enters from the left.

GREEN PERSON: Hello.
BLUE PERSON: Hi!
GREEN PERSON: Whatcha doin?
BLUE PERSON: Just hanging around.
GREEN PERSON stands and watches BLUE PERSON water the flowers for a while. He/she soon gets bored with that and futses around the stage.
BLUE PERSON: Wanna help?
GREEN PERSON: Nah.
BLUE PERSON: Sorry I can’t talk much, but this has got to get done.
GREEN PERSON: I understand.
BLUE PERSON: If I don’t do it, who will?
GREEN PERSON: Yeah, I know.
BLUE PERSON: You understand how it is.
GREEN PERSON: Sure, totally. No sweat.
BLUE PERSON: Thanks.
RED PERSON enters from the left. Sits down and opens a laptop and starts doing work.
GREEN PERSON: (To RED) What’s up dude?
RED PERSON: I got homework.
GREEN PERSON: Oh. What class?
RED PERSON: The Anthropology of Medicine.
GREEN PERSON: Oh.
YELLOW PERSON enters from the left.
GREEN PERSON: (To YELLOW) Hey!
YELLOW PERSON: Hey man.
GREEN PERSON: Whatcha doin?
YELLOW PERSON: I gotta go film this thing with Ted.
GREEN PERSON: Oh, cool.
YELLOW PERSON exits. BROWN PERSON enters.
BROWN PERSON: (To GREEN) Hey, wanna hang out?
GREEN PERSON: Nah.
BROWN PERSON exits. GREEN PERSON sits down.
GREEN PERSON: (To him/her self) I wish I had something to do.
RED PERSON: (Reacting to some problem with computer) Shit! I just deleted my whole fucking paper!!

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