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Cheshire Cats

  • Gail Young
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 3M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573110818

Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Shoestring Budget, Professional Theatre
Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk. Hilary, Siobhan, Yvonne, Vicky and Maggie are attempting to walk 13 miles across the capital in record time in their decorated bras and posh new trainers, but the 6th member of the team doesn't seem to meet the physical criteria!

Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girls night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way.
REVIEWS:

"A genuinely funny and even touching ensemble piece."

 Edinburgh Fringe Review, The Scotsman

"Moving, emotional, poignant, and best of all it makes you laugh..."

 Chester Chronicle

Premiere Production: First performed by Guilden Sutton Players at Guilden Sutton Village Hall in November 2005, and subsequently performed by Guilden Sutton Players at the Endinburgh Fringe in August 2006.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
  • Casting Notes: This play was originally written and performed as an ensemble piece for 11 people, but to accommodate smaller casts, and to allow for the financial constraints that often face professional theatrical productions, the script has been revised so that it can be performed either as an ensemble piece or with a cast of just 6 with some doubling and trebling of parts. To accommodate both cast sizes there are two versions of Act III in the script.

  • HILARY - Bombastic, middle-aged team leader/organizer.
    SIOBHAN - Caring and diplomatic. Old friend of Hilary.
    YVONNE - Overworked/overweight stressed-out mum and friend of Hilary.
    MAGGIE - Overweight younger mum.
    VICKY - Artistic, fit, glamorous middle-aged divorcee.
    ANDREW - Trim toyboy.
    AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR - May be played by the person playing ANDREW in the version of the play for 6 characters.
    HANDSOME DRUNK - May be played by personal playing ANDREW in the version of the play for 6 characters.
    MADGE - Elderly cockney marshall, can double up with the person playing SIOBHAN or HILARY in the version of the play for 6 characters.
    ETHEL - Elderly cockney marshall, can double up with the person playing SIOBHAN or HILARY in the version of the play for 6 characters.

    Additional characters for the ensemble version of the play:
    POLICEMAN - Can double with HANDSOME DRUNK if required.
    RON - Elderly cockney marshall, married to Madge.
    MARSHALLS - Between 2 and 5 needed.
    PHOTOGRAPHERS - At least 2 needed, preferably male.
    RADIO VOICE

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    Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk. Hilary, Siobhan, Yvonne, Vicky and Maggie are attempting to walk 13 miles across the capital in record time in their decorated bras and posh new trainers, but the 6th member of the team doesn't seem to meet the physical criteria!

    Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girls night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way.

    		$24.95

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