The Prettiest Girl in Lafayette County
Short Play, Comedy / 1m, 1f
Misty is setting up a display of St. Patrick’s Day cards in her shop in a small town in Mississippi when a young man saunters in to buy a Valentine.
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Cast Size
1m, 1fDuration
30 minutesSubgenre
Not ApplicableAccolades
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play FestivalTarget Audience
- Appropriate for all audiences
Additional Info
Misty is setting up a display of St. Patrick’s Day cards in her shop in a small town in Mississippi when a young man saunters in to buy a Valentine. Since it is the day after Valentine’s Day, they are half-price. He chooses a card and presents it to the abashed girl.
Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 12th Series.
Accolades
- Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival
Reviews
"A very impressive piece of writing, simple, clevery-written and lean: a love story containing conflict and resolution." - Back StageConsiderations
Performing Groups
- Elementary School / Primary
- Jr High/Primary
- High School/Secondary
- College Theatre / Student
- Community Theatre
- Professional Theatre
- Reader's Theatre
- Shoestring Budget
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Cautions
- No Special Cautions
License details
- Minimum Fee: $45 per performance
Production
Details
- Time Period: Contemporary, Present Day
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Setting: A card shop in Lafayette County, Mississippi. The day after Valentine's Day.
- Additional Features: Not Applicable
- Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
Music
- Musical Style: N/A (Not a musical)
- Vocal Demands: N/A (Not a musical)
Casting
1m, 1fMISTY - 20s; she is "the prettiest girl in Lafayette County." Very charming, very Southern, very sweet. But don't get her mad.
JAMES - 20s; the softball star, if there is such a thing. He is a rather unrefined but well-intentioned "country boy," who, as he says, has tried to "clean himself up for this occasion." The rough edges still show. The shirt and tie don't match, but James thinks they do. Essentially, he's a nice guy, good-looking, quite a charmer.
Cast Attributes
- Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
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Authors
Jason Milligan
Jason Milligan's many stage plays have been performed in numerous productions across the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe. Thirty-seven of his plays are now published by Samuel French Inc., including ...And Then the Rain Came to Mayfield; Cross Country; New York Stories; Southern Exposures; The Prettiest ...
View full profileThe play was originally produced by the Cab Theatre Company Inc. as part of their one-act series, "Women at the Wheel" at Our Studios in New York City on January 15, 1987 under the direction of Joann Carollo.
The play was subsequently produced by the Cab Theatre Company Inc. as part of the Double Image Theatre's 12th Annual Short Play Festival at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York on May 8 and 10, 1987.
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