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Curtain Call

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  5w, 3m

Bettine Manktelow

Curtain Call
by Bettine Manktelow

An amusingly chaotic day in the life of Alec Partridge, Manager of the Thurlow Playhouse. The director of an amateur production of Oklahoma demands real horses in the show; an Arts Council agent arrives to assess the theatre's eligibility for a grant…

Curtain Call

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary

CURTAIN CALL BY Bettine Manktelow

The play takes place in the General Manager's office of the Thurlow Playhouse.   Two exits, one window.

History
1999:  First presented under the title "Stage Struck" by the Guild Players at the Kilshawe Theatre, Deal, Kent.
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Performing Groups

Valerie:   The General Manager's secretary.  30s, attractive young lady. Weighed down by the pressures of her job and her unhappy love-life.

Alec Partridge:  The General Manager.   50s. Affable and apparently unflappable.  Manages to keep his sense of humour despite his problems.

Lulu Lynchpin:  The Stage Manager, tough, capable, dependable.  30s-50s.

Doreta Mason:  An former actress, glamorous but struggling to look younger.  Sophisticated but secretly vulnerable. 40s

Murphy:  The Front of House Manager, 30s-40s.  An attractive flirt, charming, unambitious, easy-going.

Rita: A barmaid.  30s.  Fussy, pretty, kind and popular.

Ms Murdstone:  From the Arts Council.  Prim and severe, in a position of power and knows it.  40-50.

Clarence Mason:  A local councillor and Chair of the Theatre Trust and Doreta's husband.  A pompous bully, domineering and aggressive.   50s. 

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"This fascinating look behind the scenes in a Theatre Manager's office made a rollicking comedy.."  East Kent Mercury.

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

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Bettine Manktelow

Bettine Manktelow
Bettine Manktelow was born Bettine Stratton in Gillingham in Kent, and is the middle daughter of three.She became stage-struck at an early age andworked in a repertory company atChatham Theatre Royalat the age of sixteen as an assistant stage-manager, learning stage craft fro ...
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