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A Slight Misunderstanding

Short Play, Comedy  /  6w

A Slight Misunderstanding

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

This is a comedy of confusion. One member arrives at a women's guild meeting to run a jumble sale, others to demonstrate unusual cookery, home-made wine-making and string lampshades respectively. To add to the chaos, an eccentric outsider comes to talk about flower arranging without flowers. They then try competing for five minutes each to decide who should perform at the next meeting. Extraordinary things happen. Then the surprise ending reveals why the misunderstand was, in fact, planned all along. 

Cast Attributes

Carrie: larger-than-life, cheerful, very direct; early middle age
Audrey: ordinary member of audience; youngish to early middle age
Lettice: large, pointed nose (false), heavy makeup, odd dress; early middle age
Effie: untidy, eccentric, rather jumpy; early middle age
Irma: miserable, humourless; early middle age
Joyce: confident, authoritative; early middle age

  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting

    A Bare Stage

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £30 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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