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Appearances

  • Tina Howe
  • Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573696763

A mousy woman hoping to be the belle of the ball tries on dress after dress, exhausting the patience of the woman in charge of the area. Set in the ladies' dressing room of a department store.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A mousy woman hoping to be the belle of the ball tries on dress after dress, exhausting the patience of the woman in charge of the area. Set in the ladies' dressing room of a department store.

A part of the collection Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies.

Premiere Production: Appearances premiered at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City in 1982 under the direction of Douglas Johnson.
  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • GRACE MATTHEWS - the woman who guards the fitting room, 50s
    IVY WALL - a panic stricken shopper, 30s