Mark Insoll

Manly Pickles
 

A comedy play featuring 6 characters (4m + 2f).
Includes one song (optional) and can be performed by 3 actors playing 2 characters each.
Very easily staged. Approx 90 minutes. 
 

Motley, Yorkshire: Private investigator Bobby Manly has just spent a wet weekend the highlight of which was watching "A Room with a View". Now he craves romance. Sophisticated romance. Somewhere cheap and warm preferably. Unfortunately, he's low on leave and the dating app Tingle won't work on his Bilberry smartphone.

Costa Cocoa, The Caribbean: Ronnie Badmother is depressed. People keep telling him his smuggling racket is unsustainable. But how can he show his face at volleyball fortnight if he's skint? Will his sophisticated new wife even want to stick with him? And why does he now get the feeling he's being followed?

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Script sample...
 

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