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The Key To Room 65

Jack Todhunter | Friday July 31, 2009

Categories: Courses, GCSE, KS3, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing

Read the following short play and create your own ending for it then compare it to the one that was originally written.

The Key to Room 65

A teenager, Mary-Jane taps on a hotel door.

Emily: Come in! It’s open.

Mary-Jane enters her friend’s room and is puzzled to find Emily squashed against the wall with a coat hanger in her hand.

Mary-Jane:  What are you doing with that?

Emily: I’m fishing.

Mary-Jane: Fishing? What for?

Emily: My pants.

Mary-Jane: You’re using a bent coat hanger to fish for your knickers???

Emily: I draped them on the radiator last night. They were a bit damp.

Mary-Jane: Ooh, you dirty cow!

Emily: Give over! My clown of a brother put his wringing wet towel on top of my luggage and a few things got soaked. My knickers have slipped down the back of the radiator and I’m trying to get them out.

Mary-Jane: I can see them. Oh my god!

Emily: What?

Mary-Jane: I wouldn’t be seen dead in those. They’ve got pictures of Noddy on them.

Emily: My mum got them for me. I’ve run out of my nice ones.

Mary-Jane: Forget your pants.

Emily: I can’t forget my pants. I want to go out. I’m not going out without my pants on!

Mary-Jane:  Well hurry up because I’ve got the key!

Emily: The key to what?

Mary-Jane: That boy’s room.

Emily: Which boy?

Mary-Jane: Mike, the boy in the pool yesterday.

Emily:...


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