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Be
Careful Who You Wish For
Farcical Comedy - single set - 4m 3f
Synopsis
Jack and Mark have come to the pub to while away the rest of the day
watching the football on TV.
Before it starts they are chatting about how easy life is for women and
utter the age-old comment "I wish I could be a woman for a day".
All too soon, Jack becomes a woman, yet he's still here too, facing his
new, feminine alter-ego and feeling exactly what she does.
But how does he explain away this new and attractive woman in his life to
his friends and long-suffering girlfriend Lisa? More to the point, how
does he get rid of her so life can go back to its previous normality?
After all, a woman who dresses to kill, knows exactly how to get a man
going, likes beer and is an authority of football is very popular with the
regulars!
(Other non-speaking parts for pub guests, if desired.).
| Character |
Lines |
| Jack a football and beer fan |
394 |
| Jackie Jack's female
alter-ego |
150 |
| Mark Jack's drinking buddy |
254 |
| Lisa Jack's fiancée |
258 |
| Beth Mark's wife |
179 |
| Bob pub regular |
19 |
| Other pub customers as and if desired
(non-speaking) |
0 |
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Author's
notes
The idea of a gender reversal comedy has been
done and redone, often to very good effect, as in Alan Ayckbourn's If
I Were You, which I can thoroughly recommend to anyone. However, I
don't think I've ever seen it done where the person and his opposite sex
alter-ego actually meet each other, which is the basis of this farce. On
the face of it, it's simple comedy, but if you look at the psychology
involved were such a meeting possible, it can get very interesting. Jack
has created his own fantasy woman - so he's bound to fancy her. But he's
fancying himself. And his best mate, wowed by the charms of such an
attractive newcomer, fancies her too, but is he really saying he fancies
Jack?
Note
that there is no need to have similar looking actors for Jack and Jackie.
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