2084
Featured in AlonE, TogetHer (Dramtists Publishing)
Synopsis
On a call between a chipper customer service agent of a private company and a disgruntled customer who believes they have been cursed by their past and doomed by Zoom, this short drama/comedy flirts with Orwell’s classic 1984 as it contemplates a world where we are constantly surveilled. This play can be performed virtually or live.
Cast Requirements
2 actors; either gender
Customer: Female or male. Forever 21, until they aren’t. Wanted to be a stand-up comedian.
Customer Service Agent: Male or female. A real person, any age.
Runtime
15 Minutes
Set Description
A Zoom session connecting the Customer’s childhood bedroom/bunker to a Zoom Customer Service Agent in their own sparse work bunker.
Time: 2084
Memory Holes
“In the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, [there was] a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This...was for the disposal of waste paper. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction...it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.”
—George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four