# Idea (for play) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910 "2013-11-14T14:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uzzi001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9e5f3/32.png) [@uzzi001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uzzi001)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/1 "2013-11-14T14:08:10Z")
i want an idea for my 25 mintues play which have 6 characters ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/2 "2013-11-14T14:26:30Z")
Reported. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/3 "2013-11-14T14:32:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Reported. > > Regards, > Shodan You call _that_ an idea for a 25 minutes play which have 6 characters? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/4 "2013-11-14T14:42:21Z")
Split from other thread where it’s most inappropriate, moved to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/5 "2013-11-14T15:02:32Z")
How about they are playing Russian Roulette? With six characters, it seems certain one of them will die. Guaranteed dramatic tension! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/6 "2013-11-14T15:10:29Z")
One of the characters must be a goldfish named Chekov. He can be portrayed by the actor sticking his head through the bottom of a table, with a “bowl” around his head. The climax has him stand up and walk to another part of the room. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/7 "2013-11-14T15:16:30Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > How about they are playing Russian Roulette? With six characters, it seems certain one of them will die. Guaranteed dramatic tension! [13 Tzameti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Tzameti)?? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/8 "2013-11-14T15:21:25Z")
You have no idea how funny I find it that in this thread we have an author in search of six characters. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/9 "2013-11-14T15:28:53Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > You have no idea how funny I find it that in this thread we have an author in search of six characters. Dammit. I was going to post that. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/10 "2013-11-14T17:04:12Z")
6 Angry Men? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/11 "2013-11-14T17:06:43Z")
Gilligan’s Island (after the other castaways fed Gilligan to the sharks). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/12 "2013-11-14T17:11:01Z")
> [@uzzi001](#): > > i want an idea for my 25 mintues play which have 6 characters How much you pay me? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/13 "2013-11-14T17:47:51Z")
You know who else had six characters, right? I see them sitting around, totally _not_ expecting the Spanish Inquisition… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/14 "2013-11-14T18:09:17Z")
Your six characters: Antonina Maria Filbucci, prima ballerina for the Gran Vienne in late 19th Century Austria, just begin to realize she’s not as young as she once was. Elmo “Deadeye” Whitford, just back from driving cattle to Montana, and trying to stay under the radar for those five men he shot in Pecos. Dr. Sylvester Apfelheim, late 18th Century white-bearded alcoholic and vampire-hunter. Also a kleptomaniac. Jocelyn Fitzhugh-Spenser, author of the famed _Nancy the Nurse_ children’s series of the 1940’s, and secret cocaine addict. Ahmed, your trusty camel dealer. The Most Reverend Abbie Holliday, 23rd Century Televangelist and owner of the Pantasy Soap Company, and given to fits of incoherent babbling. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/15 "2013-11-14T18:16:47Z")
. . . and tonight the role of “Tuppy Spode, the 7th earl of Snodsbury” will be played by a narcoleptic dachshund. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/16 "2013-11-14T21:02:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Your six characters: > > Antonina Maria Filbucci, prima ballerina for the Gran Vienne in late 19th Century Austria, just begin to realize she’s not as young as she once was. > > Elmo “Deadeye” Whitford, just back from driving cattle to Montana, and trying to stay under the radar for those five men he shot in Pecos. > > Dr. Sylvester Apfelheim, late 18th Century white-bearded alcoholic and vampire-hunter. Also a kleptomaniac. > > Jocelyn Fitzhugh-Spenser, author of the famed _Nancy the Nurse_ children’s series of the 1940’s, and secret cocaine addict. > > Ahmed, your trusty camel dealer. > > The Most Reverend Abbie Holliday, 23rd Century Televangelist and owner of the Pantasy Soap Company, and given to fits of incoherent babbling. Now, place them all together waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/17 "2013-11-15T00:24:14Z")
::The lights are low, there is a faint haze of opium in the air, and the Most Reverend Holliday has just put the mouthpiece of the hookah up to her face.:: …aaaaand - ACTION! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-play/673910/18 "2013-11-15T01:02:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You call _that_ an idea for a 25 minutes play which have 6 characters? My sincere apologies to **Shodan**. It seems as if his post was _exactly_ what the OP was looking for, since he signed off immediately after and hasn’t been back since.