A Rocket In His Pocket
by Tom Erhard

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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Full Length Comedy / Into Rimrock High School comes mild mannered Oswald Agnew, new graduate of Hackensack Teachers' College.

One expects a certain number of problems in a new job - but Oswald discovers that he's the first male teacher in the school in ten years!

Mr. Agnew's first day is an absolute shambles.

While he's diagraming a simple sentence on the blackboard, Spaceman sends up another one of his homemade rockets.

Then Arlin gets his finger stuck in his desk.

Then the fire drill bell rings!

As they all carry Arlin, desk and all, towards the nearest exit, Mrs. Matchett, the principal, storms in!

It looks like an impossible situation, but the students rally behind their new teacher who proceeds to win the respect of his fellow teachers!

Characters

Character
Arlin Abbott

the fun loving, but slightly bumbling class prankster.

Harry Cooper

Arlin's buddy and class "heart throb."

Janis Brown

Harry's pretty, spunky "steady" -well, at least once in a while.

Jackie

a muscular, athletic minded student.

Barbara

Jackie's studious friend.

Lulu

an older, more mature student -sophistication's gift to Blue Rimrock.

Mrs. Matchett

the ruggedly individualistic principal and football coach.

Mr. Agnew

a mild mannered, conscientious graduate of Hackensack Teachers College and first male teacher at Rimrock High in ten years.

Miss Chisle

a prim, grim English teacher who talks like a textbook and looks just about as glamorous.

Spaceman

an inventive, eccentric senior at Blue Rimrock High.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1960
Pages 111
Language English
ISBN-13 9780874405620
ISBN-10 0874405629

A Rocket In His Pocket is a American comedy play written by Tom Erhard and published by Samuel French (1960).

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