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Hotel Mystère

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 4m

Bettine Manktelow

by Bettine Manktelow

It’s a bad day for David Richmond and his team at the hotel, Tony the
barman, porter Sean, barmaid Tanya and ditzy waitress Lucy.

Hotel Mystère

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary

HOTEL MYSTERE  BY Bettine Manktelow

It’s a bad day for David Richmond and his team at the hotel, Tony the barman, porter Sean, barmaid Tanya and ditzy waitress Lucy. First there’s a fussy, demanding customer to contend with, and then Russian mafioso Boris Barushnikov checks in, apparently convinced Tanya is prepared to offer him more than just drinks during his stay. Worst of all, rumours are circulating of a mystery guest who has come to inspect the place. Then Lucy stumbles upon a dead body in the annex ...

History
This play was first performed at the Sarah Thorne Memorial Theatre, Broadstairs in May 2012.
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Performing Groups

Tony:   The head barman of the hotel is clever and resourceful.  He runs the hotel and lets the hotel manager just think he does.  30-40

Avril:   The mysterious guest, a sophisticated lady or a snoop of some kind?  Attractive 40-year old.

David:  The hotel manager.  Mid-50s and in a mid-life crisis.   A worried man, pompous and trying to convince himself and everyone else that he is in charge.

Tanya:   A barmaid.  Attractive 20-30 year old.  A little bit naieve.

Sean: The reception porter.  A fantastist starring in his own imagined stories but falls to pieces when faced with reality.   20s or 30s

Lucy, A waitress.  50s.  Dim, silly and hysterical.

Boris Borishnikov: A Russian guest, imposing and charismatic.   Is he a spy Russian mafia or as he says a business man?  50s

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting A Hotel Bar with bar and tables, chairs etc.  two entrances and one curtained exit off bar.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

Hotel Mystère is a clever comedy-thriller from the author of Curtain Up on Murder, Murder Weekend and Proscenophobia.

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Bettine Manktelow

Bettine Manktelow
Bettine Manktelow was born Bettine Stratton in Gillingham in Kent, and is the middle daughter of three.She became stage-struck at an early age andworked in a repertory company atChatham Theatre Royalat the age of sixteen as an assistant stage-manager, learning stage craft fro ...
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