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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w, 3m, 3 any gender (youth)
B.D. Samuels
At Saw Mill Public High School, the late bus picks students up at 6:30 PM – it just never comes on time. Thus, the play explores all Saw Mill High’s collection of mavericks and misfits with no other way to get home.
At Saw Mill Public High School, the late bus picks students up at 6:30 PM – it just never comes on time. Over the course of a school week, we meet Saw Mill High’s collection of mavericks and misfits with no other way to get home: the chaotic valedictorian, the big-brained transfer, the detention heads, the band geeks, the athlete, the anxious ones and the one quietly observing it all. With some magical music, vicious rumors, breakups and more than one breakdown, Late Bus is a close look at what it means to be in high school in our messy world.
Late Bus debuted in 2024.
NATALIE – A juniorLEA – A seniorJAMES – A sophomoreBELLA – A sophomoreJOE – A sophomoreREBECCA – A seniorROY – A seniorKELLY – A first-yearLALA – A juniorTAYLOR – A juniorKARA – A sophomoreTWO PRINCIPALITIES – Played by the actors playing James and KellyPA SYSTEM – Voiced by a jaded faculty member
Bella, Joe, Lala, and Taylor may be played by actors of any gender. If any of them are played against the written gender, pronouns should be altered to reflect the actor’s preferred pronouns. Bella may become “Benny,” and Joe may become “Jo.”
The late bus waiting area. 6:30 PM.
B.D. Samuels is a theatre educator and playwright born in Los Angeles and based in Brooklyn. His debut play, Late Bus, has been produced all over the country from California to Florida to South Dakota to New Mexico. His short plays Thee Lonely Lighthouse and The Town That Tim ...