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CAST OF CHARCTERS The play can be done with two actors (see below) or 3w and 2m Actor 1 Bula Bister - runs a small town newspaper which is more like a gossip paper than a serious news source. She pays a few bucks for gossip to whoever is willing to give it. Actor 2 Skeeter Skeetch- assistant to Bula at the paper Fanny Mae Alcott - young female reporter who hangs out behind the boys locker room Sheriff ??? sells his crime reports for a few bucks for beer Kilabrew ??? nurse who loves to share hospital gossip SCENE 1 (Play takes place in a makeshift newspaper office. BULA sits at her desk facing the audience and SKEETER is sleeping under a table covered by newspapers) BULA: Skeeeeeter! Where are you, boy? SKEETER: [Crawls out from under a table] Yeah. BULA: What you doin down there? SKEETER: Sleepin. BULA: Didnt you go home last night? SKEETER: We had a deadline for the paper. Pulled an all nighter. BULA: So you got the paper done? Where is it? SKEETER: [Looks] Shoot. I knew I forgot something. BULA: Now, Skeeter SKEETER: Oowa, baby. The Now Skeeter talk. BULA: We have an obligation to the people of this town to bring them news on a weekly basis. [SKEETER mouths the speech as he sits and listens] We are this towns ear to the world. They count on us to give them the news like no one else can... You listenin to me, Skeeter? [He even mouths the last part] SKEETER: Yes, maam. BULA: How much of the paper we got done? SKEETER: The front parts all done. BULA: Then get it out there. The people are waiting. SKEETER: [Mumbles to self] I bet they aint even out of bed yet. [Exits] BULA: Poor, Skeeter. This big time newspaper business is hard on the boy. [Looks through paperwork on desk] Now lets see. What do we have for next weeks top story? Looks like were down to two: Mayor Mack and Mablegate. Shall we explore the question, ???Why does the mayor spend more time with his secretary than with his wife???? Or the Jorkle family expose???? Wh