Christmas Party Crasher

Christmas Party Crasher
A short play by Diana Weeks

Set – The Apex Oil Company's conference room.
Characters : Sonya – Executive Secretary
Shirley – Sonya's best friend and room mate a secretary
At rise: Sonya is on the phone listening and making notes.

SONYA
Yes sir...yes sir...(pause to listen and make notes) Yes sir...
Shirley enters and flops down in the Chairman's puffy dark leather arm chair .Sonya puts her finger across her lips.

SHIRLEY
Yes sir, yes sir...sort of has a rythumn...

SONYA
Thank you sir. (hangs up phone)

SHIRLEY
Our land lord called and threatened us with eviction.

SONYA
My boss just promised me a nice bonus if I host the company Christmas party next week. Mr. Charley's got a date to go to the Mayor's party so he can't stay.

SHIRLEY
You said they weren't giving a party this Christmas.

SONYA
True...but in September, the Chairman's wife spent four-thousand dollars for a designer dress to wear to the office Christmas party.

SHIRLEY
So now they're optimistic. What's the budget, do they get us a couple of boxes of doughnuts?

SONYA
No. My boss Charley is giving me a company credit card. We're going to be okay.

Shirley puts her hands together pointing under her chin.

SHIRLEY
Thank you Jesus for another month we don't have to move back home.

SONYA
Plus ...the company party will be the same night we had invited our friends over for wine and crackers, bring your own cheese bash. Now they can enjoy smoked turkey and baked hams.
SHIRLEY
We call our friends and change the address to here?

SONYA
The lady needs people to see her dress.

SHIRLEY
Do you think the Chairman will notice fifty people he doesn't recognize?

SONYA
No, we don't have faces to him.

SHIRLEY
Wait a second. Most of them are looking for jobs.
Are you inviting company vendors. (Sonya nods yes.) Our friends can make contacts.
They laugh and hug.

SHIRLEY (con't)
How did you find out about the four-thousand dollar dress?

SONYA
A pal...his secretary, who he makes do his personal bills. I had her remind the Chairman
of the pity of not getting to wear such a dress. He's the type who wants to get his money out of everything.

THE END
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