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Sex Please We're Sixty

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 2m

“You'll laugh, you'll cry at this show.” – KPSP Channel 2 News, Arizona

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences, Adult, Senior

Details

Summary
Mrs. Stancliffe’s Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next-door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued Bud “Bud the Stud” Davis, believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this but really doesn’t do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that “Bud the Stud” is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor, Henry Mitchell, is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called “Venusia,” after Venus the goddess of love, to increase the libido of menopausal women. The pill has not been tested. Add to the guest list three older women: Victoria Ambrose, a romance novelist whose personal life seems to be lacking in romance; Hillary Hudson, a friend of Henry’s who has agreed to test the Venusia; and Charmaine Beauregard, a “Southern Belle” whose libido does not need to be increased! Bud gets his hands on some of the Venusia pills, and the fun begins as he attempts to entertain all three women! The women mix up Bud’s Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping, and irritability! When the mayhem settles down, all the women find their lives moving in new and surprising directions.
History
Sex Please We're Sixty was first produced by Play With Your Food Productions in Hemet, California on 17 October 2008. Since then, it has had almost 300 productions throughout the US and Canada and worldwide.

BUD DAVIS (age 70+) – Next-door neighbor to Mrs. Stancliffes’ Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast; weak, frail looking (the frailer the better), however, over the years, he has become renowned among the female guests as “Bud the Stud”; very elderly, somewhat infirm, chauvinistic, brazen but likeable.

MRS. STANCLIFFE (age 60+) – The owner of Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast; a severe woman both in dress and manner; pursued by her next door neighbor, Henry; sensible, practical, punctual, business like, menopausal, but finally radiant and sensuous

HENRY MITCHELL (age 60+) – A retired chemist and Mrs. Stancliffe's “Gentleman Caller”; a mild mannered man who has proposed to Mrs. Stancliffe every afternoon for twenty years; has developed Venusia; eventually comes out of his shell.

VICTORIA AMBROSE (age 50+) – A renowned author who writes steamy romantic novels; pines for romance in her personal life, but finds none; readily joins the plot to turn “Bud the Stud” into “Bud the Dud”; pretty, serious, intelligent, menopausal.

HILLARY HUDSON (age 50+) – Beautiful, well educated, articulate, and sophisticated in both manner and dress; old friend and co-worker of Henry’s, who agrees to test the Venusia pills; elegant, charming, menopausal.

CHARMAINE BEAUREGARD (age 50+) – The quintessential Southern belle; definitely here at Rose Cottage for Bud and becomes the leading light in the plot to tame him; voluptuous, outgoing, gushing, demonstrative, menopausal.

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting

    Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast, somewhere in New England.

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

“Fast-paced and hilarious.” – The Californian

“If you need a rollicking good time filled with laughter, this is a must-see play.” – The City Wire, Fort Smith, Arkansas

“We gotta do this. Just the whole premise, the whole plot line, and the physical comedy – it's hilarious. We've been rehearsing four weeks, and every night, I just laugh constantly.” – Erie Times, Erie, Pennsylvania

“This play is adorable.” – Kerville Daily Times, Texas

“The Parkers got it right. A must-see.” – Metroland Newspapers

“A very funny giggle fest.” – Erie Times-News

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Michael Parker

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By a ...

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Susan Parker

Susan Parker, a prolific Concord Theatricals/Samuel French-published playwright, forged a remarkable theatrical legacy collaborating alongside her late husband with a portfolio of seven acclaimed plays that have graced stages both in the United States and across the globe sin ...
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