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Proscenophobia

Full-Length Play  /  4w, 2m

Bettine Manktelow

A theater company on tour includes a star and her understudy who were both married to the same man. When the understudy takes the stage at a provincial theater, the gun fires bullets instead of blanks and she is killed. Who was the intended victim? Who loaded the gun? Focus is on human motivation ra…

Proscenophobia

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary
A theatre company on tour includes a star and her understudy who were both married to the same man. When the understudy takes the stage at a provincial theatre, the gun fires bullets instead of blanks and she is killed. Who was the intended victim? Who loaded the gun? Focus is on human motivation rather than police investigation in this theatre mystery.
History

First performance at the Astor Theatre Arts Centre, Deal, Kent on 22nd March 2001 under the title of "Stage Fright".

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Performing Groups

Adelaide:    An successful actress, attractive and ambitious, vain and selfish but with a certain amount of self-knowledge.  40s

Millie:  Her understudy.  Old friend of Adelaide's, Bright, breezy and attractive.   Once also married to one of Adelaide's husbands.

Judy: The assistant stage manager, a rather neurotic and nervous young woman, 18 - 20.

Justin:   The Company Manager, an extravert, affected, impertable, sophisticated. 50s

Edward:  "The Husband", an impresario, charming, debonaire and unscrupulous.

Pearl:  Sickly sweet and ingratiating, secrely envious of the two main actresses but hides it well.  50s 

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"..the sparkling repartee between the two actresses works well in this original comedy-drama but there is pathos as well!   Look out for the twist ending!..."  East Kent Mercury

Music

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

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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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