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The Day They Kidnapped Blanche: The Revival

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Blanche, an energetic retired teacher is having a blast starring in a community theatre comedy when the FBI needs her to outsmart a tough criminal and dim-witted assistant!

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SKU: 9063840 Category: Plays Tags: 20-29 Minute Play, 30-40 Minute Play, Comedy, Mystery, Short Plays
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Anne Barham Pugh and Katy Dacus
30 minute mystery comedy
3 men, 3 women, 1 either

Blanche, an energetic and youngish seventy year-old retired teacher, is having a blast starring in a community theatre comedy. Both she and Mel, her protective pal and the theatre director, are unaware of a stalker attending every performance. He is Devon, an FBI Agent, who recruits her to tackle an offstage role. Indeed, Blanche goes undercover. How can she and her buddies, without weapons, outsmart a tough criminal and her money-hungry but dim-witted assistant?

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A longer version of this play is found in the collection, New Plays for Mature Actors.

After a recent professional cast production, this classic Senior Theatre play has been updated!

See Ann Barham Pugh’s other plays: The Christmas Coffee, Bowling with Dixie, and Volunteering has it Moments

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playwright

Ann Barham Pugh

genre

Comedy

run time

30-39 Minutes

men

3, 4

women

3, 4

royalty

$20 per performance

cast-size

7

theme

Crime, Private Eyes and Detectives, Theatre and Performing

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