The Dating Zone

🎭 You are about to enter... a world where dating meets drama… where “Hi” means “I love you”... and a single text can start a full-on emotional meltdown.
Welcome to… “The Dating Zone©.”

This laugh-out-loud 6-minute comedy transports your audience into a spoof of the Twilight Zone, where reality bends under the pressure of teen crushes, overactive imaginations, and text messages gone rogue.

As two teenage girls decode a simple greeting into a marriage proposal, two clueless boys navigate school projects, prank texts, and the fallout that follows. And all the while, our dry, deadpan Narrators watch the chaos unfold — and occasionally hit the pause button.

🌀 Perfect for youth services, dating series, or just an excuse to laugh at the modern madness of relationships, The Dating Zone© is both a comedy and a caution sign:
🚫 Don’t trust everything you see.
🚫 Don’t believe everything you feel.
🚫 And never leave your phone with Donny.

Cast:     6  (m or f) (Narrators should speak in a Vincent Price/Orson Wells type voice)

• Narrator #1, game show host with a serious voice
• Narrator #2, game show host with a serious voice
• Jen, has a crush on her lab partner
• Suzie, Jen’s best friend
• Nate, studious but socially clueless guy
• Donny, friend and prankster

Bible Reference: Genesis

Set:   bare

Lighting:   standard

Sound:   wireless mics if available

Song:  none

SFX:   Twilight zone music helpful, but not necessary

Costumes:      Narrators in suits or outrageous dress clothes. Nate is preppy, Jen girly, Suzie studious, and Donny skater type

Props:  4 cell phones

Special Instructions:   narrators say “the Dating Zone” in unison where indicated

Time:   6

Sample of script:

Narrator #1:
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to... “The Dating Zone.”
Not everything you see or hear is real.
Not everything you feel is to be trusted.
Use extreme caution when entering... “the dating zone.”
It will cause you to ask questions... and may or may not answer them.

Narrator #2:
It may enlighten you to a new common occurrence that has taken place since the invention of the cell phone.
Not even your parents or grandparents faced what is about to happen in... “the dating zone.”
This is a new phenomenon occurring at every high school, in every town, in every state — USA.
(to girls)
Begin.

(Jen and Suzie stand stage left. Jen is opening and closing her phone repeatedly as they talk.)

Jen (muttering, opening and closing phone):
He loves me… he loves me not… he loves me… he loves me not…

Suzie:
Jen, what in the world are you doing?

Jen:
He loves me… Uh, what do you think I’m doing?
I’m trying to see if Nate is into me or not… now, where was I?

Suzie:
He loves you not…

Jen:
Oh yeah — he loves me!

(Nate enters, crosses stage casually.)

Nate:
Hi.

(He exits opposite side of stage.)

Jen (overwhelmed):
Hhhhhiiiii. Did you see that? WOW!
(opens phone)
He LOVES me. (dreamily)

Suzie (calmly):
Jen, he just said "hi" — not "Will you marry me and have my children."

Jen (excited):
You know, the Spring Fling Dance is coming up…
Maybe he was asking me to go with him!

Narrator #2 (to girls):
Pause.
(to audience)
Wow. How did a simple "hi" turn into "He loves me and asked me to Spring Fling"?

Now let’s watch and see what was really going on in Nate’s mind.
(to Nate)
Begin.

(Spotlight shifts to Nate, now center stage. He speaks to himself.)

Nate:
Where’s Donny? I thought he said to meet him here.
I wonder if Jen and Suzie finished the biology project yet.
I wish I had another lab partner who actually knew what was going on.
Oh yeah — I’ve got to work on that pre-calc due tomorrow.
And my research paper’s due Friday. Better crank that out too.
(looks at watch)
Where is Donny? He said to meet him here at noon.
He’s always late.

Narrator #1 (to Nate):
Pause.

Narrator #2 (to audience):
Okay, that explains a lot.
Nate didn’t have a clue that his simple “Hi” was going to be interpreted as “I love you.”
He’s thinking about projects and homework.

(Donny enters stage right.)

Narrator #2 (to boys):
Let’s listen to what happens next...
in “the dating zone.”
Begin.

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