Acting Bundle: 4 x Duologue Scripts for Girls Aged 12+

An Ideal Husband: This society comedy was first produced in 1895 at the Haymarket Theatre London The play is set mainly in the Grosvenor Square home of Sir Robert Chiltern, respected politician and Undersecretary for foreign affairs. He and LADY CHILTERN are entertaining guests, one of whom is the fascinating but unscrupulous Mrs Cheveley. During the evening MRS CHEVELEY contrives to speak to Sir Robert privately. She has a large investment in an Argentine canal scheme, which Sir Robert has publicly denounced as a swindle. She informs him that it will be in his interest to reconsider his position and withdraw his report on the matter. If he refuses, she has information in her possession that will ruin him. The following morning MRS CHEVELEY receives a note from Sir Robert refusing to accede to her demands, and in this scene she confronts LADY CHILTERN.

Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII’s first wife, KATHERINE of Aragon, confronts her husband’s mistress, ANNE Boleyn, in the Royal Palace at Greenwich. KATHERINE, in her mid-forties, plump, pious and determined to keep Henry, speaks broken English with a Spanish accent. ANNE, vivacious and attractive, in her late twenties, is desperate to legalise her relationship with the King.

Friends Forever: CINDY and DONNA stand apart. They speak to the audience.

CINDY: We vowed w’d be friends forever. We said we’d always sit together at lunch and call each other every night and always tell each other everything.

Invisible Friends: LUCY is a lonely teenager, with her father glued to the television, her mother preoccupied with gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones. So LUCY revives her childhood fantasy friend, ZARA. However, ZARA materialises for real.