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The Duelling Oakes

Short Play, Comedy  /  3w, 2m

Bruce Kimes

Concerns a preposterous and manifestly outrageous duel to be fought by the newlyweds, Bill and Sally Oakes in their living room. A childish but nevertheless serious argument is started and it snowballs into a tempestuous challenge-- a challenge to a duel with pistols. Plans are made, seconds are cho…

The Duelling Oakes

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    3w, 2m

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Concerns a preposterous and manifestly outrageous duel to be fought by the newlyweds, Bill and Sally Oakes in their living room. A childish but nevertheless serious argument is started and it snowballs into a tempestuous challenge-- a challenge to a duel with pistols. Plans are made, seconds are chosen and the duel, after false starts and interruptions gets under way. The duel solves the problem for the Oaks. A delightfully different play.

BILLY OAKES - average young man, dark hair, early 20's.

SALLY OAKES - pretty little thing, wide-eyed, Billy's wife.

AUNT ELSIE - stout, dumpy, unpleasant-looking woman in her late 50's.

MAZIE COLLINS - pretty little blonde, about the same age as Sally, married a few years longer.

FRED COLLINS - swaggering, loud-voiced young fellow a few years older than Bill.

  • Cautions
    • Gun Shots

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