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New Comedy Play by Judith Prior

Sat, 21 Dec 2002, 07:06 am
Judith Nancy1 post in thread
New Release! 2003.
Opportunity Knocks!


By Judith Prior

CAST:-
6/8 Females 5/6 Males (Some doubling possible)

The play, a comedy in two acts, is set in a charity run opportunity shop. The three lady volunteers who work in the shop should be middle aged or older. The men may be of any age, although Wally would be of pension age, and Marty is younger than the other two. Upstairs, over the shop, (Off stage) live two younger women, Madge and Carol. These ladies are exotic dancers at the Pink Pussy by night, and by day they run a very successful phone sex business, which the opp shop staff believe is simple tele marketing.

The dissimilar values and attitudes of the two very different lots of tenants, upstairs and downstairs, and the stream of weird and wonderful customers coming and going through the Opp Shop, create some very funny situations.

When the local councilors decide to run a recycled fashion parade and talent quest as a promotion to advertise their recycling policies, the girls upstairs are enlisted to help the opp shop staff with their entry in the competition.

The competition entry from the Opp Shop is the finale of the play, and this may be as informal or as lavish as you like to make it. A simple fashion parade of recycled clothes, plus a trio by the three older ladies, a dance number by the two upstairs ladies, or the three guys doing something like the full Monty!

There are lots of walk on comedy roles, speaking parts and non speaking, as customers enter and exit the shop. If you are short of players, some of these roles may be doubled up. If youÂ’ve never been to an Opp Shop, you should make a field trip, you never know just what you might find, when.......

Opportunity Knocks!

www.bundabergonthe.net/jprior

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Judith NancySat, 21 Dec 2002, 07:06 am
New Release! 2003.
Opportunity Knocks!


By Judith Prior

CAST:-
6/8 Females 5/6 Males (Some doubling possible)

The play, a comedy in two acts, is set in a charity run opportunity shop. The three lady volunteers who work in the shop should be middle aged or older. The men may be of any age, although Wally would be of pension age, and Marty is younger than the other two. Upstairs, over the shop, (Off stage) live two younger women, Madge and Carol. These ladies are exotic dancers at the Pink Pussy by night, and by day they run a very successful phone sex business, which the opp shop staff believe is simple tele marketing.

The dissimilar values and attitudes of the two very different lots of tenants, upstairs and downstairs, and the stream of weird and wonderful customers coming and going through the Opp Shop, create some very funny situations.

When the local councilors decide to run a recycled fashion parade and talent quest as a promotion to advertise their recycling policies, the girls upstairs are enlisted to help the opp shop staff with their entry in the competition.

The competition entry from the Opp Shop is the finale of the play, and this may be as informal or as lavish as you like to make it. A simple fashion parade of recycled clothes, plus a trio by the three older ladies, a dance number by the two upstairs ladies, or the three guys doing something like the full Monty!

There are lots of walk on comedy roles, speaking parts and non speaking, as customers enter and exit the shop. If you are short of players, some of these roles may be doubled up. If youÂ’ve never been to an Opp Shop, you should make a field trip, you never know just what you might find, when.......

Opportunity Knocks!

www.bundabergonthe.net/jprior

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