An outrageous parody - Contemporary Drama Service

PRODUCTION NOTES
Players: Five females; four males.
Playing Time: About thirty minutes.
Setting: On the backdrop is a glittery sign that says:
THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST SHOW
CAMP EAT-A-DEAD-RAT
There’s a kiddie pool Stage Left, a kiddie sandbox Stage Right, at
Center an exercise bike and a treadmill. A mural of the outback
on backdrop would help set the scene.
Costumes: Rance in white hunter/safari jacket and tan shorts.
He also wears boots and white pith helmet. Tribe members wear
shorts, T-shirts, leotards, sneakers, khaki pants, baseball caps,
sporty, casual, attractive clothes. Donna and Biff might be in allwhite
tennis outfits. Kate has one leg missing from her pants.
Kate and Melba change into camouflage costumes with word
“Staff” on back of shirt. Biff and Donna dress in silly swim suits
with scuba masks, swim fins, and life jackets with the word
“Titanic” on them.
Properties: Wireless hand microphone, stopwatch, notepaper,
colorful plastic kiddie beach pails, sifters and shovels, clipboard
with papers, lion tamers’ whips and chairs, pen, four badminton
rackets, shuttlecock, two stretchers, fake money.
Sound Effects: Australian bush music with didjeridoo; sounds
of jungle; obviously canned/pre-recorded applause.
Note: The pool need not have water in it, but does need a pail of
water in it to wet Donna and Biff’s hair and several buckets of
water, dry ice and ice cubes to create foreboding vapors. These
buckets should not be visible to audience.