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SYNOPSIS FOR "The Mistake" (Heuer Publishing)
2 men (Flexible casting—see note below)
Running time: 20 minutes
Synopsis:
Finger-pointing, name-calling, and shocking revelation! Blame, guilt, and a verbal battle royale that has lasted for years, (all of their lives!), through childhood’s laughter and as an adult’s sad tears. The Mistake is a fast-paced character study of two friends revealed in a nostalgia-based argument of comic memories, charged bickering and banter, and an unexpected reversal. A madcap, modern, private conversation and a humorous biting look at best friends.
While The Mistake was originally written with two male characters in mind, it has been successfully produced with a mixed gender, male and female casting, as well as an all female cast. Please feel free to make line/word/and pronoun adaptations to suit your production. The casting is flexible. Have fun with it!

You may also wish to consider one of my earlier plays, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl, from Heuer Publishing, with a flexible cast of 21.
Synopsis: Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl is a modern melodrama that chronicles a ridiculous day and the challenges and struggles of a young woman who makes a living manufacturing doughnuts and sweet pastries in a small town doughnut factory. Structured as a radio program complete with phony commercials, parody songs, audience participation, and listener call-in spots, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl stretches theatrical forms but is deeply rooted in awful puns and wrapped around an apple pie and a cup of coffee of small town life.
Types: Full Length Play, Community Theatre
Genres: Comedy, Melodrama
Cast: 6 men, 7 women, 8 extras, flexible cast, 21 total

My new two-act murder mystery, The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest), has a cast of 15- 8 females and 7 males- and is published by Brooklyn Publishers.
Synopsis: An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 Or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening’s performance than meets the eye.

You Don’t Have to Feed A Cello has a cast of 15- 10 females and 5 males- and is published by Heuer Publishing.
Synopsis: You Don’t Have to Feed A Cello is a young man’s worst nightmare, his own
personal life, mistakes and failures, brought hilariously to the stage in embarrassing
moments orchestrated and revealed by a Greek chorus of six nagging mothers in his head.
Vexed and hounded by finger-pointing failure, nagging guilt, missed opportunities, and a
son’s duties and responsibilities, a playful, comical, paranoid theatrical presentation of a
conscience riddled by a mother’s overprotective love and good intentions.
5 Males, 10 Females (Some Flexible casting).