Play On!
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Victorian (British and American), Present Day
- 3M, 7F
- ISBN: 9780573613616
Perfect for any performing group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Victorian (British and American), Present Day
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Gun Shots, Alcohol
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 7F
- Casting Attributes: Color blind casting
AGGIE MANVILLE - a stage manager and prompter.
GERALDINE 'GERRY' DUNBAR - a community theatre director.
HENRY BENISH ("Lord Dudley") - a Character Actor.
POLLY BENISH ("Lady Margaret") - a Character Actress.
MARLA "SMITTY" SMITH ("Doris the maid") - a supporting player.
SAUL WATSON ("Doctor Rex Forbes") - a Villian.
BILLY CAREWE ("Stephen Sellers") -a Juvenile.
VIOLET IMBRY ("Diana Lassiter") - an Ingenue.
LOUISE PEARY - a sound-and-lighting-and-scenic technician.
PHYLLIS MONTAGUE - a novice playwright in the community.
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Perfect for any performing group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter. |
$24.95 |
