CAST: Flexible cast of 20 (about 6M, 9F, plus 5 roles that can be any)
SET: Interior living room set
TIME: About 90 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $27.50 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
SET: Interior living room set
TIME: About 90 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $27.50 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
Dr. Bruno Slacker has been trying to find his way to Easy Street all his young life. Having pursued one harebrained scheme after another to get rich quick, he’s finally hit on a scheme he’s sure will work! Convinced Americans work and worry too much, Bruno claims (on national television, no less!) that if they’d only become idle, they’d live longer. To prove his point, he invites eight ambitious subjects to spend a week in “Idle House,” his version of “Real World.” The eight contestants’ mission is to learn to live without goals, a seemingly impossible task for these go-getting young adults, including college students, cheerleaders, entrepreneurs and an interior decorator who instantly sets off to redecorate Idle House! Nurse Nancy, a former drill sergeant, is to make sure that if any subject’s vital signs go up too high, they’re kicked out of Idle House. Any subjects who can last the week will split a million dollar prize. Unfortunately, Bruno doesn’t have a million dollars, his mother is trying to undermine his project, and his subjects can’t quite leave the real world behind them — sneaking boyfriends, assistants and partners into the picture to complicate his experiment. By the time the wacky challenge reaches its conclusion, only one surprising subject is left standing!
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Director’s book: $27.50 each
Director’s book: $27.50 each
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