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School for Trophy Wives

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 5m

Freyda Thomas

School for Trophy Wives is loosely based on Molière’s L’Ecole des Femmes. It is set in present day Hollywood, with all the accompanying glitz, glamour, and garishness we have come to know and spoof in Tinseltown.

School for Trophy Wives

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 5m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Stage & Screen)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)

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School for Trophy Wives is loosely based on Molière’s L’Ecole des Femmes. It is set in present day Hollywood, with all the accompanying glitz, glamour, and garishness we have come to know and spoof in Tinseltown. In this version, Arnolphe is Arnie, a Hollywood producer who has finally made it big after years of clawing his way to the top. He now wants to settle down with a wife and kids. He is MUCH older than his protégée Agnes, whom he found on a farm when she was 4, “adopted” as his ward, and raised, until he realizes, at her graduation, that she would be a perfect wife for him. Having made fun of his colleagues and all their trophy wives over the years, he must take special care that no whiff of scandal will ever hit him from the cover of People Magazine or the Hollywood Reporter, and that his wife will never adhere to the “trophy standards” his friends have had to deal with. This is where Molière comes in, but with some 21st century flair.
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ARNIE (PHIL FORREST) - A Hollywood producer (50s)
AGNES - His ward, 17
HAL - A young suitor to Agnes (20s)
CHRIS - Arnie’s friend and the voice of reason (50s)
ALÓN - A Hispanic, longtime factotum to Arnie (30s and up)
JORJINA (Hor-heena) - His wife (30s and up)
EVE - Agnes’ long lost mother (40s)
RON - Hal’s father, a friend of Arnie’s (50s)

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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