The 236th Annual Summit of the Moose Scouts of America
Knives
Ice Tornadoes
A Good Sing-a-long
In the not so distant future, it’s the most important day of the year for all Moose Scout Herd Honchos: The Annual Regional Summit. We’ve all braved thundersnow and ice tornadoes to meet National Moose Scout Rangers Jane and Jeff, who are here to teach us how to best prepare the indoor kids of America for a changed and dangerous world outside. Topics include how to find food in the wilderness, the art of skinning a coywolf, and how small acts of community service can make a difference in your town, even if it is under six feet of water.
by Jessica Wright Buha and Aileen Wen McGroddy
Original music by John Szymanski
Genre: dark comedy
Length: one act, 60 minutes
Cast: 2 actors
Set: A conference room
To read a perusal script, contact Jess here.
Jeff: Anyhoo, if you didn’t see in the monthly newsletter, the Moose Scouts of America have partnered with the Wilderness Supervision Commission to gain special access to previously closed areas—
Jane: —Areas previously deemed unfit for human exploration. What an honor. Moose Scouts will finally become skilled in thrusting the knife and aiming the arrow once more. We will remind you how to kill. We will teach you how to survive.
Jeff: And we will all sign new waivers! Please send them in by March 1st so they can be catalogued with the Wilderness Supervision Commission.
PRESS
“…Where [Rhinofest’s] first round of openings seemed to highlight cool metatheatrical conceits, second-round successes tend to head amusingly for the heart…[c]onsiderably more acidic is The 236th Annual Summit of the Moose Scouts of America, in which an initially chirpy conference is overwhelmed by the environmental apocalypse going on outside. The Whiskey Rebellion’s world of man-eating rats is somehow as believable as it is darkly comic.”
— Tony Adler, Chicago Reader (Recommended)
PRODUCTIONS
Premiered January 2015, Prop Thtr, Chicago, IL as a part of Rhinofest 2015
production photos by Evan Hanover