Coffee in the Cloud

The company coffee is terrible. The warehouse guys Freddie and Chuck figure the boss is secretly bringing in great coffee which he’s not sharing. Today the boss has an all-day dentist appointment, giving the guys the opportunity they need to search his office. As long as they can deal with Blitzen, the toy surveillance reindeer, maybe they get away with it.

Themes and issues

Coffee. Surveillance culture. Reindeer. Bad boss.

Development history

This play has been selected for the reading list at RTE Radio 1, Drama on One, Dublin, Ireland.

Genre

Comedy, Absurdist / Farce

Acts and run time

Three continuous audio scenes. 25 minutes. 

Cast

Three actors (2 men, 1 woman). Roles may be cast with actors of any race.

Written as an audio drama 

This script is written as an audio drama with sound cues indicated. 

BLITZEN is a toy reindeer that silently guards the boss’s office and only engages with FREDDIE and CHUCK when they inadvertently wake her. Like the audience, FREDDIE and CHUCK are unaware that BLITZEN contains a camera and a microphone with the ability to record audio and video and transfer files to the company’s network Cloud storage. The fun part of BLITZEN’s character is that the audience doesn’t know about her sophisticated surveillance capabilities until later in the play. 

Performance rights

You may download a perusal copy of this copyrighted play for review. Performance rights inquiries to the playwright at rights@rbws.ca or the Playwrights Guild of Canada at playwrightsguild.ca.

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