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Acting Exercise

Short Play, Drama  /  2m

Peter Barnes

Acting Exercise
by Peter Barnes

Rowan, an actor, is rehearsing. A distraught husband demands the actor give him back his wife. With a superlative performance, Rowan convinces the husband he is mistaken, but alone again he crows: 'I could sell electric fans to Eskimos!' May be prese…

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Rowan, an actor, is rehearsing. A distraught husband demands the actor give him back his wife. With a superlative performance, Rowan convinces the husband he is mistaken, but alone again he crows: 'I could sell electric fans to Eskimos!' May be presented as part of the full-length entertainment Corpsing.
M2 (20s, 40s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A rehearsal room.

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Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes
Peter Barnes (1931 – 2004) was called in The Times 'one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain'. His widely successful 1968 play The Ruling Class helped steer English theater away from naturalism, and was turned into an acclaimed film starring Peter ...
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