I Hate Mothers
by James Rayfield

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Highlights

One Act 30 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

The comedy for every high school girl who has had to play the "mother role" when she really wanted to play the lead.

A performance of "Petunias" - a blatantly sentimental high school play - is in progress, but things go very wrong when the actress playing the mother (she always plays the mother) decides she wants things to work out her way for a change.

She takes control of the "lead" and the other actors are forced to improvise to save the play.

She changes lines, the plot, and even kills off her own character so she can make a play for her daughter's boyfriend!

Characters

Character
Kimberly

a high school girl, young, lovely, intense.

Jason

a college student, Kimberly's boy friend.

Mother

the name says it all, doesn't it?... except she's also Lisa and Carlotta .

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1983
Pages 28
Language English
ISBN-13 9780874408348
ISBN-10 0874408342

I Hate Mothers is a American comedy play written by James Rayfield and published by Samuel French (1983).

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