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TIMOTHY MOONEY
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Timothy Mooney has given tens of thousands of students their first introduction to Moliere through his one-man play, Moliere Than Thou. Mr. Mooney is the former founder and editor of The Script Review and was the Artistic Director of Chicago's Stage Two Theatre, where he produced nearly fifty plays in five years. When it came time for Stage Two to produce the classics, Mr. Mooney found himself writing new versions of the plays of Moliere, with a playful sense of rhyme. He has now written sixteen iambic pentameter variations on the plays of Moliere, which have been produced around the world, and he continues to present his one-man show across North America, while teaching classical acting and performing two more one-man shows, the sci-fi thrillerCriteria and the musical Karaoke Knights, a One-Man Rock Opera!
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Bourgeois Gentleman, The Criteria Dancing Nude Doctor in Spite of Himself (full-length version), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (short version), The Don Juan Feminine Savants, The Flying Doctor, the Imaginary Invalid (full-length version), The Imaginary Invalid (short version), The Karaoke Knights, a One-Man Rock Opera Misanthrope, The Misanthrope, The (short version) Miser (full-length version), The Miser (short version), The Moliere Than Thou Moneisur de la Porceaugnac Precious Young Maidens, The Schemings of Scapin (full-length version), The Schemings of Scapin (short version), The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, The Sganarelle, the Imaginary Cuckold Tartuffe (full-length version) Tartuffe (short version)Bourgeois Gentleman, The
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Timothy Mooney creates a world in which every character in the play speaks in rhyme, EXCEPT for Monsieur Jourdain, the Bourgeois Gentleman of the title. Jourdain is an idiotic, supercillious bounder, looking to cheat on his wife and be made a gentleman in the process.
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Timothy Mooney's comic sci-fi thriller depicts an America three hundred years into the future, where your social security number now determines your destiny, fragmenting the states into six, and eventually, three "Unions," with each amid a cold war with the other. The central-states union, "The Twos," secretly harbor terrorist agents, one of whom they send westward to bomb a train carrying nuclear waste back to the central states from its former Yucca-Mountain burial place. The terroist, "Albert Gardner," has been indoctrinated into a single-minded resolve, but finds the very underpinnings of his assumptions shaken when he goes into a local diner to meet a waitress and a trucker who are actually . . . nice to him! How decadent, bourgeois and bloated these "Fives" are!
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Top of PageDancing Nude
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The ins and outs of male sexuality
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Ritz Theater Studio, Minneapolis 07 Aug 2010
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Minnesota Fringe Festival
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Monologue play
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Top of PageDoctor in Spite of Himself (full-length version), The
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Timothy Mooney creates a rhymed iambic pentameter version of Moliere's (prose) original. A loosely structured farce in which a woodcutter (Sganarelle) finds himself mistaken for a doctor, as a result of a mischeivous trick from his vengeful wife. It seems that the patient he is brought in to examine is only faking an illness to keep her father from marrying her off. Meanwhile, Sganarelle develops an irresistable urge toward the households wetnurse, discovering that the guise of doctor provides a cover for any number of abuses
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1st Produced:
Fintry Amateur Dramatic Society (Fintry, , Scotland) 2006
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60-75 min Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: 6 males, 3 females, 2 either (9-11 actors possible: 5-8 males, 3-6 females)
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Top of PageDoctor in Spite of Himself (short version), The
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When the peasant woodcutter, Sganarelle, is mistaken as a doctor, he is surprised to find himself winning the respect of everyone in town. However, when he discovers that the source of a patient's inability to speak is the dread of her arranged marriage, Sganarelle helps her run off with her boyfriend, which leaves him, the "doctor," at the mercy of the girl's vengeful father. This rhymed-verse adaptation of Moliere's play uses wit and rhyme to tell the story of an ignorant peasant who is elevated to a position of authority, and the hilarity that ensues when no one can tell the difference. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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North Shore Technical High School (Middleton, MA, United States) 2009
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40-50 min Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: 6 males, 3 females, 2 either (9-11 actors possible: 5-8 males, 3-5 females)
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Top of PageDon Juan
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Timothy Mooney composes a rhymed iambic pentameter version of Moliere's (prose) original. The rash libertine, Don Juan, seduces every woman he finds and scandalizes every man he encounters. Don Juan defies every warning leveled at him by his comic servant, Sganarelle (the role Moliere originally played), curses his father's good intentions and defies death itself. Banned from presentation in 1665, this rarely produced classic must be placed next to "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope" as Moliere's greatest works.
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short adaptation
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Male: 13 Female: 4 Other: 6 either (8-25 actors possible: 3-9 females, 5-19 males)
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Top of PageFeminine Savants, The
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Timothy Mooney's rhymed iambic pentameter version of this play finds Moliere reversing his perceived opposition to the patriarchy (as famously depicted in "School for Wives"). An equal-opportunity satirist, Moliere here mocks a group of women who have clearly overreached the bounds of their wit. The mother, Philaminte, wants to marry her younger daughter off to a dull pedant, posing as a great wit. Her older sister supports this scheme, partly out of her jealousy for a man she loved, but rejected long before. The only remaining question is whether the father will assert his customary right to decide his daughter's future, or bow to his wife's domineering ways.
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Top of PageFlying Doctor, the
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Timothy Mooney creates a brief rhymed, iambic pentameter version of this classic Moliere divertissement. This zany farce finds a servant disguised as a doctor, in order to examine a girl who is, as per usual, only faking an illness to disrupt her father's wedding plans for her. The "doctor" (who "flies" in and out of a second story balcony window) finds he must play both doctor and servant role to avoid detection, and must even appear at the window as both, each in an argument with the other. The play contains classic, and bawdy comic lazzi, such as the doctor pretending to examine the daughter by drinking the girl's urine sample.
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Top of PageImaginary Invalid (full-length version), The
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The hypochondriac Argan wants nothing more than to be sick, or at least to be thought of as sick, and tended to by Doctors and Family (notably his scheming wife). His desire for treatment outweighs his judgment, as he tries to set his daughter up to marry an idiot doctor-in-training. Only the brilliant collaboration of the maid, Toinette, with his brother, Beralde, can foil the wife, conquer the doctors, and satisfy Argan. This rhymed-verse adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy ends with a hilarious Latin-gibberish musical finale, which proclaims Argan as a doctor in his own right. (A short version of this play is also available.)
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1st Produced:
Stage Two Theatre (Highwood, IL, United States) 1998
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105-135 min Comedy
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Male: 8 Female: 4 Other: 8 males, 4 females, 6 either (12-25 actors possible: 1-19 males, 4-12 females)
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Top of PageImaginary Invalid (short version), The
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The hypochondriac Argan wants nothing more than to be sick, or at least to be thought of as sick, and tended to by Doctors and Family (notably his scheming wife). His desire for treatment outweighs his judgment, as he tries to set his daughter up to marry an idiot doctor-in-training. Only the brilliant collaboration of the maid, Toinette, with his brother, Beralde, can foil the wife, conquer the doctors, and satisfy Argan. This rhymed-verse adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy ends with a hilarious Latin-gibberish musical finale, which proclaims Argan as a doctor in his own right. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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Columbus State Community College (workshop) (Columbus, OH, United States) 1999
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35-45 min Comedy
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Male: 8 Female: 4 Other: 8 males, 4 females, 1 either (11-18 actors possible: 7-14 males, 4-10 females)
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Top of PageKaraoke Knights, a One-Man Rock Opera
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Timothy Mooney creates a song cycle of love, desire and fear, set in the karaoke bar. Five guys compete for five hundred dollars and the phone numbers of the women in the audience. Along the way, they sing the songs going on in their heads, playing behind or underneath the more familiar tunes they perform. Each karaoke number segues into an original song, as the gravel-voiced Charles, the seductive Sergio, the playful Brian, Larry the dancer and Tim, sing, dance and interact with the audience.
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Top of PageMisanthrope, The
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Alceste hates mankind. No one gives him the respect and honor he deserves. Although most people acknowledge his intelligence and wit, Alceste's flaw is his insistence on using those gifts against his fellow man as a demonstration of his own superiority. Even worse, Alceste has fallen helplessly in love with society's biggest coquette, the one woman whose outside affairs are destined to undermine his self-esteem, even as he is caught up amid the flurry of simultaneous court proceedings. Moliere captures human desires in all of their complexity in a psychological study that (in this adaptation) sparkles with wit in occasionally irreverent rhymed iambic pentameter.
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1st Produced:
University of Colorado-Denver (Denver, CO, United States) 1999
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90-110 min Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: 6 males, 3 females, 2 either (8-11 actors possible: 5-8 males, 3-6 females)
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Top of PageMisanthrope, The (short version)
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Alceste hates mankind. No one gives him the respect and honor he deserves. Although most people acknowledge his intelligence and wit, Alceste's flaw is his insistence on using those gifts against his fellow man as a demonstration of his own superiority. Even worse, Alceste has fallen helplessly in love with society's biggest coquette, the one woman whose outside affairs are destined to undermine his self-esteem, even as he is caught up amid the flurry of simultaneous court proceedings. Moliere captures human desires in all of their complexity in a psychological study that (in this adaptation) sparkles with wit in occasionally irreverent rhymed iambic pentameter.
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Scituate High School, Scituate, MA 01 Sep 2008
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35-50 min min Comedy
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Top of PageMiser (full-length version), The
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Harpagon loves nothing so much as his money, not even his own children. So, even though both his son and daughter have fallen in love with young, vital partners, Harpagon attempts to engage them to a rich widow and widower in their declining years. Making matters worse, Harpagon wants to marry his son's lover himself, his only regret being she has very little money as a dowry. This rhymed-verse adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy explores the fine line between money and love and the consequences of valuing the former over the latter. (A short version of this play is also available.)
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Stage Two Theatre Company (Vernon Hills, IL, United States) 1998
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90-115 min Comedy
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Male: 10 Female: 4 Other: 10 males, 4 females (11-14 actors possible: 5-10 males, 3-8 females)
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Top of PageMiser (short version), The
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Harpagon loves nothing so much as his money, not even his own children. So, even though both his son and daughter have fallen in love with young, vital partners, Harpagon attempts to engage them to a rich widow and widower in their declining years. Making matters worse, Harpagon wants to marry his son's lover himself, his only regret being she has very little money as a dowry. This rhymed-verse adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy explores the fine line between money and love and the consequences of valuing the former over the latter. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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Middleton High School (Middleton, WI, United States) 2009
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38-45 min Comedy
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Male: 10 Female: 4 Other: 10 males, 4 females (11-14 actors possible: 5-10 males, 3-8 females)
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Top of PageMoliere Than Thou
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Timothy Mooney's one-man take on the life of Moliere finds the playwright abandoned by his cast, with an audience that has come to see "The Schemings of Scapin." Unwilling to refund their money, Moliere offers to give the audience a trip through his favorite monologues, offering context for each of ten different plays, while changing into costume and performing them. Occasionally, he brings an audience volunteer on stage with him, as Tartuffe, for instance, needs an Elmire to seduce.
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Comedy, 75 min
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Top of PageMoneisur de la Porceaugnac
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Timothy Mooney captures another prose play by Moliere in rhymed iambic pentameter. A farce written late in Moliere's career, in a similar style to "Scapin" with a "piling on" effect. A young girl has been engaged to an out-of-towner who is no match for the schemes of her true love and his helpful cohorts. Caught in their sites, and guilty of nothing more than wanting to marry a woman he has never met, Porceaugnac is subjected to every possible indignity, psychoanalyzed, attacked by doctors looking to administer an enema, and forced to dress as a woman to escape a band of marauders.
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Top of PagePrecious Young Maidens, The
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Timothy Mooney presents a rhymed, iambic pentameter version of Moliere's (prose) original. Two dizzy, romantic girls shun two respectful suitors out of hand, and they take their revenge by setting the girls up with the very type of suitor they are looking for. They send the foppish servant, Mascarille in to woo the girls, and they are entranced by his tales of duchesses, and poetry, and his companion's talk of battles. Just as the girls are thoroughly entranced by these two swain, the masters arrive to "discover" the servants masquerading in their stolen clothing, and beat the men while reclaiming their clothing.
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Top of PageSchemings of Scapin (full-length version), The
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Timothy Mooney reworks Moliere's prose comedy into rhymed iambic pentameter. A scheming servant brilliantly tricks two fathers out of money so that their respective sons can support their loves. Commedia at it's best, "Scapin" features classic lazzi such as Scapin convincing the father to hide in a sack, and then proceeding to beat the sack with a stick, and pretending that it was another series of villains only hitting the sack incidentally, while Scapin himself took the real beating.
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Stage Two Theatre Company (Vernon Hills, IL, United States) 1999
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75-95 min Comedy
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Male: 7 Female: 3 Other: 7 males, 3 females, 2 either (9-12 actors possible: 5-9 males, 2-5 females)
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Top of PageSchemings of Scapin (short version), The
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The brazenly-conniving servant Scapin is the most devious and audacious character you'll ever encounter. Two young men, Octave and Leandre, enlist his help to save them after they pledge marriage to women their fathers wouldn't approve of. Improvising his way through treacherous turns and outrageous misbehavior, Scapin manages to help the two men and their brides, even managing to exact a personal revenge in the process. But when Scapin is caught in the middle of a trick and abandoned by his cohorts, will his scheming be enough to get him out of trouble unscathed? (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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37-45 min Comedy
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Top of PageSchool for Husbands, The
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Timothy Mooney adapts Moliere's prose original into a work of rhymed iambic pentameter. An earlier, less "plotted," and shorter take on the classic themes of "School for Wives," Moliere here creates a more intelligent female lead, who fools her captor-guardian-fiancee, getting him to carry encoded messages to her lover, under the pretense of going to upbraid the man for being too forward with her.
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Top of PageSchool for Wives, The
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Timothy Mooney creates a new verse version of Moliere's classic battle-of-the-sexes tale. A prospective husband (Arnolphe), thinks he has the perfect solution to keep his future wife chaste. He will keep her ignorant, by locking her up in a convent from the age of four. Fifteen years later, Arnolphe looks to reap the rewards of his patience, but finds that the very ignorance that he has cultivated has also kept her ignorant of the notion that she is not supposed to fall in love with someone else. Every step Arnolphe takes to protect himself from cuckoldry only drives him farther down that path.
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Top of PageSganarelle, the Imaginary Cuckold
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Timothy Mooney recreates Moliere's one-act farce in rhymed iambic pentameter. Two couples each find grounds to believe that their partner has entered an affair with a mate from the opposing couple. The central character, Sganarelle out-Falstaffs Falstaff, as he contemplates whether it is more important to win honor by challenging his wife's supposed lover, or to stay quiet, and alive. Eventually, only the intervention of the maid, who has witnessed the complexity of the confusion, can straighten out the misperceived circumstances, restoring the two relationships to their admittedly shaky status quo
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Top of PageTartuffe (full-length version)
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When the religious hypocrite Tartuffe ingratiates himself into the good graces of Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle, he is taken into their home and promised Orgon's daughter's hand in marriage (even as he secretly attempts to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire). Everyone else in the family sees through Tartuffe's pose, and his machinations and hypocrisies are eventually exposed, but is it too late to save the family from eviction and to keep Orgon from being thrown in prison? Moliere's classic comedy satirizes religious hypocrisy, blind piety, and deceit, and this adaptation captures these themes in playful irreverent rhyme. (A short version of this play is also available.)
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Stage Two Theatre (Highwood, IL, United States) 1997
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90-105 min Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: 5 males, 5 females, 2 either (12-15 actors possible: 5-9 males, 4-7 females)
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Top of PageTartuffe (short version)
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When the religious hypocrite Tartuffe ingratiates himself into the good graces of Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle, he is taken into their home and promised Orgon's daughter's hand in marriage (even as he secretly attempts to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire). Everyone else in the family sees through Tartuffe's pose, and his machinations and hypocrisies are eventually exposed, but is it too late to save the family from eviction and to keep Orgon from being thrown in prison? Moliere's classic comedy satirizes religious hypocrisy, blind piety, and deceit, and this adaptation captures these themes in playful irreverent rhyme. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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Stage Two Theatre Company (Highwood, IL, United States) 1997
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Genre:
40 min Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: 5 males, 5 females, 2 either (12-15 actors possible: 5-9 males, 4-7 females)
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