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The Early Girl

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  7w

Caroline Kava

This earthy comedy is set in a small town brothel. Lily has just arrived determined to earn enough to pay her debts, having left her baby with a friend. She enters the monthly competition to be Number One Girl and becomes the month's leading contender until a crisis with her daughter forces her to b…

The Early Girl

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    7w
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
This earthy comedy is set in a small town brothel. Lily has just arrived determined to earn enough to pay her debts, having left her baby with a friend. She enters the monthly competition to be Number One Girl and becomes the month's leading contender until a crisis with her daughter forces her to break a rule no outside phone calls. Her courage in standing up to the madam gives another girl the courage to leave the brothel too. The play ends as it began, with the entrance of a new girl.
Cast Attributes
JEAN - a working girl. Twenty-five, beautiful, witty, intelligent, intense, on the verge of change.
PAT - a working girl. Twenty-three, pretty, extremely likable, a compulsive consumer.
LILY - a working girl. Seventeen, a spirited innocent, remarkably attractive.
LAUREL - a working girl. Twenty-nine, a statuesque beauty.
GEORGE - twenty-six, senuous, irreverent, and in love.
LANA - the madam. Late forties, looks a bit younger, glamorous, vain, a consummate business woman.
SALLY - the new girl. Twenty-two, not naive.
  • Time Period 1980s
  • Setting A house of prostitution, in a mining town out West. Circa 1983.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes

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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