“You're Next”

Dorf, Jon (aka Jonathan C. Dorf, American playwright, screenwriter, script consultant, teacher, 1971-____), “You're Next [formerly Replay],”

a 17-minute drama in English, set in a storage room off a high school boys locker room, sometime before lunch, 1997,

2m

; © 1997 by Jonathan C. Dorf; • in Jonathan C. Dorf’s You're Next (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: The Author, 1997); • script/rights available from Jonathan C. Dorf, 7125 De Longpre Avenue #209, Los Angeles, California 90046, U.S.A., e-mail jon@jondorf.com, http://www.jondorf.com, telephone (home) 323-512-5273. • Cited by Jonathan C. Dorf via ftp October 22, 2003; Dorf says,

§ Dramatis Personae Jay Doe (m), 15, son of a door-to-door gun salesman; Peter (m), 15, Jay’s friend.

§ Synopsis “Jay, still dripping water from being thrown in the shower again by the school bully, huddles with his best friend, Peter, in a room just off the locker room. Peter has brought a gun and wants Jay to use it on the bully. When Jay hesitates, Peter first tries to reason with him, then questions his courage and even his sexuality. But Jay holds firm—son of a gun salesman, he hates guns—and it finally becomes clear that it is Peter who needs help; the bully has told Peter that he’s next on his list, and he doesn’t know what to do.

§ Comment “The play requires minimal tech and a suggested setting. It does require a prop gun. • It has been done successfully at the high school level (including in competition), which is the age for which it is intended.

§ Themes bully, guns, school violence, peer pressure, friendship, locker room, threat, high school.



See also Dorf, Jon’s

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• "Bookends," an absurd comedy in English, 2m2f, a comedy set in a small university library, March, 1996, 2m2f (1 male can be female; 2f can be doubled)
• "Crash Positions," a 10-minute comedy in English, set in an airplane in the air, 1997, 1m1f
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• "From Shakespeare with Love?," a 45-minute comedy in English, set in an airport, various Shakespearean settings, 1:00 a.m., 1999, 2m2f
• "Jesus at the Taco Stand," a 10-minute dark comedy-drama in English, set outside a mental health clinic, Friday evening, 1998, 1m2f
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• "Play's End," a 25-minute dark comedy in English, set in the Doe family living room, late afternoon, 1996, 2m
• "Ticking," a 25-minute dark comedy in English, set in the Doe family kitchen, morning, 1999, 3m
• "This Magic Moment," a 35-minute comedy in English, set in an apartment living room, late afternoon, 2001, 1m1f
• "The Wash," a 10-minute dark comedy in English, set in the laundry room of a New York apartment building, 9:00 p.m., Friday evening, 1m1f
• "Whatever Happened to Godot?," a 10-minute ironic comedy in English, set in a drab apartment, morning, 2003, 3m
• "The White Pages," a 25-minute comedy in English, set in a used bookstore, two successive mornings, 1996, 2m2f
• "X Marks the Spot," a 10-minute comedy in English, set somewhere in the American midwest or a similar landscape, 2001, 1m1f

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