This tool is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.
Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. Just answer a few questions.
This estimator is only for amateur productions. Professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly to enquire about a title's availability: [email protected]
Important: The cost quoted is an estimate only and may differ when you apply for a licence.
A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 4m
Freyda Thomas
Splitting Heirsis an original comedy in verse, very loosely based on Le Légataire universelby Jean-François Regnard.
ERASTE - Nephew to GERONTE, bumbling, awkward, shy, loveable, scared of his uncle, madly in love with ISABELLEISABELLE - The girl next door. Everything you’ve ever wanted in an ingenue and less. Never says more than three words in a row until the epilogue. Conveys her character in poses. Lisps.CRISPIN - (Kree-SPAN) Servant to ERASTE, jack-of-all-trades, bon-vivant, master of disguise. Fences, plays a German doctor, a woman and impersonates GERONTE. LISETTE - Prototype comic maid, servant to GERONTE, in love with Crispin. Sharp, sassy, plays a man in one scene.GERONTE - An old, sick miser. Dies several times. MME. ARGANTE - ISABELLE’S mother. Lady Bracknell in Paris. POQUELIN - GERONTE’s lawyer. A very short man. (Also Plays the GENDARME).
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Our Picks for The 2019/20 Season: K-12 EditionFelicia LucasApril 23, 2019
You'll have to sign in before you share your experience.
No account yet? Create one