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Passengers

Passengers
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Sam Bobrick
Publisher: Samuel French
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 62
Pub. Date: 2008
ISBN-10: 0573662673
ISBN-13: 9780573662676
Cast Size: 2 women, 2 men (has been expanded to 31 High School actors)

About the Play:

Passengers is a full-length dramatic comedy by Sam Bobrick. You never know who you might meet during your travels! In Sam Bobrick's a raucous comedy Passengers, life is a bus station, and we're all caught between arrivals and departures. From an over zealous security guard to a jovial homeless lady to a man who quits smoking with socks, the play has scenes of humour, wit, happiness, love, hope and despair.

Passengers take place one rainy, late winter day in a small mid-western bus station. Four actors play seventeen characters in eight short scenes that vary from comedic to poignant and segue fluidly from one to another without stopping. As passengers move in and out of the station, the audience witnesses new love interests, arguments, broken relationships, dreams and friendships. While each character and scene is different and unrelated, all of them share a connection by looking far into their future and wondering what might lay beyond, and are tied together in the last scene.

Scene 1 – Jane and Walter, a disillusioned man and woman, meet in the station. As they converse, they are convinced they are dead.

Scene 2 – Frank, one of life's eternal losers, encouraged by his wife Clara, plans to turn his life around by successfully robbing the bus.

Scene 3 – Fred, a successful businessman, meets Maureen, an old high school classmate of his, who is now a homeless lady. They have a rousing time together recalling the good old days.

Scene 4 – Ernest, an innocent bystander, suffers outrageous consequences when he refuses to get involved in a bogus incident that was set up to reprimand people who refuse to get involved.

Scene 5 – Mrs. Evans, a recently widowed woman, whose husband was accidentally killed while attending a circus out of town, awaits his ashes. At the same time she is returning the body of the clown that was sent to her by mistake.

Scene 6 – June, a not too bright young girl in a wedding dress, who was just about to marry a man who can give her everything, decides instead to run off with her old boyfriend, Bobby, who can give her nothing. As they converse while waiting for the bus, June realizes what a stupid thing she's done.

Scene 7 – Mace, a bus driver, asks Laura, the woman behind the ticket counter to join him in his retirement. Although she knows they would be perfect for each other, she has to turn him down.

Scene 8 – Four characters from the above scenes find themselves waiting for the final bus of life.

Passengers offers flexible casting and has been performed with 31 High School actors. The play has been performed in regional repertory, high school, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 2 women, 2 men (preferably a man and woman in their mid-forties to late fifties and another couple in their mid-late twenties)

What people say:

"Tickling … bittersweet twists … worth a ticket purchase." — Los Angeles Times

"For a real adventure in theatre, hop on board Passengers...[It] is a fresh, idiosyncratic, irreverent comedy set in, of all places, a bus station. In eight sketches, a series of characters meet in the bus station. The encounters weave together a subtle but profound theme...Passengers is a great script. The characters are good and the dialog witty and sharp... Everything about this show is unexpected and unconventional." — Niles Daily Times

"Deep revelations and gutsy insights are gleaned from the plays dialogue and true to life scenarios." — Tolucan Times

About the Playwright:

Sam Bobrick (1932-2019) was an American author, playwright, television writer, and lyricist. He honed his craft writing for such iconic television comedy shows as The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, Get Smart, The Flintstones, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He is best known for creating the short-lived syndicated TV series Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was resurrected by NBC as the long-running hit show Saved By The Bell, and for his numerous plays, many of which were co-authored with Ron Clark. He won three Writers Guild of America Awards for his television work and was nominated for an Emmy.

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