Freaking Your Student Out: A One-Act Play

Setting: Conference Room, two individuals sitting next to each other. The audience quickly realizes that this is a professor and his student, and they are playing "getting to know you" games. This is inferred through an elaborate series of miming and hand gestures.

Professor: What is this name here? Points to a name on the paper.

Student: This is my friend Yeyua. She's a girl, but it's a boy's name. She's--

Professor interrupts, intrigued. She used to be a boy?

After a lengthy pause, student answers. She is visibly confused. She has a boy's name.

Awkward silence for about 30 seconds. Professor clears his throat.

Curtain.