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Housecleaning

$3.00 – $35.00Price range: $3.00 through $35.00

Ida, a frustrated homemaker, swears off housework for more enlightening tasks. A never-fail show and a hit wherever it’s performed!

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SKU: 9064415 Categories: Monologues, Monologues - Single Scripts, Plays, Senior Theatre Classic Plays Tags: A Senior Theatre Classic, Comedy, Flexible Casting, Monologue, Scenes and Monologues, Short Plays, Skits and Sketches
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Arthur Strimling
Comedy monologue
1 woman

This delightful monologue is a hit wherever it’s performed! Follow the frustrated homemaker, Ida, as she swears off housework for more enlightening tasks. It’s short, easy to perform and a real audience pleaser. This is one of our favorite monologues!

She was all out, showing how and why she controls the mess. This monologue is full of comedy! — Arthur Strimling

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1 hour
Flexible cast with any number of men, women, adults, young people. Created by the well-known inter-generational company, Roots&Branches, this show turns economic crisis into an unprecedented opportunity to bring the generations together.

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genre

Comedy

royalty

$5.00

playwright

Arthur Strimling & Roots&Branches

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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

run time

Plays less than 10 minutes

flexible casting

Yes

cast-size

1

women

1

theme

Living Fully

men

1

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