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A Wicked Little Wager

$7.50 – $45.00Price range: $7.50 through $45.00

This year’s annual celebration comes with mischievous gamesmanship, laughs, suspense, and murder. Be glad you don’t have friends like these!

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SKU: N/A Categories: Plays, Plays for Community Theatre, Readers Theatre Tags: Comedy, Longer Play, Mystery
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Pamela Loyd
45 minutes
2 men, 2 women
Four high-society friends gather for their annual competition on National Coconut Cream Pie Day with a high-stakes wager. A bit of gamesmanship, mischief-making, and underhanded deceptions lead to lots of laughs, a bit of suspense, and murder. Be glad you don’t have friends like these.

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Production History: Four performances at Blue Room Theatre, Chico CA.

Serve this up with Coconut Crème Pie  for a deliciously fun combo!

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playwright

Pamela Loyd

genre

Comedy

run time

40-49 Minutes

men

2

women

2

royalty

$45 per performance

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Perusal Script – Digital, Perusal Script – Hard Copy, Production Script – License to Copy, Production Script – Hard Copy, Classroom Script – License to Copy, Royalty per Performance, Streaming License

cast-size

4

theme

Cards, Board Games, Bingo, Food, Mischief, Murder

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