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Love And Lies

Colin Barrow

Genre: Drama

Cast size: 4

Duration: 35 - 40 mins approx

Colin Barrow | Drama | One Act | 1m, 3f, 1m/f

Short synopsis

Stuart has a penchant for women, So much so that he has asked his fiancée Amy (his secretary) not to tell anyone that they are to be married. There's a good reason for this because he's also asked Megan, the office receptionist, not to tell anyone that they too are engaged. The tangled web becomes even more difficult to navigate around when Stuart's other fiancée Stacey arrives at the office to find Amy and Megan locking horns. Can Stuart extricate himself from three angry women now advancing upon him?

Set in the office of Stuart Reynolds, it soon becomes apparent that Stuart and his private secretary Amy, are in a relationship. A relationship which has recently been sealed by their engagement to be married. However, due to a situation fabricated by Stuart, the relationship and the engagement has, for now, to be kept a secret.

Megan, Stuart’s receptionist, has also just recently become engaged to be married... to Stuart. This brings rise to another fabrication of reasons to keep this romance a secret. A love triangle is formed, one in which tensions, love, drama, and near misses, create for Stuart, an unravelling story.

Stuart though, through lies and deceit keeps the two ladies in the dark of the situation until Megan finds Amy sat on his lap. A slanging match begins between the two women as Stacey enters, another female that Stuart has a love interest with! Needless to say, Stuart wants the ground to open up and swallow him as three women are firmly advancing on him with venom!

(1m, 3f)

  • Stuart - 35-55, dressed in a suit complete with a collar and tie (m)
  • Amy - any age, but not older than Stuart, his secretary, could be glamorous (f)
  • Megan - any age but needs to be realistically compatible with Stuart, his receptionist, dressed smartly but very different to Amy (f)
  • Stacey - similar age to Stuart, very small part and enters the play on the closing lines of dialogue, quite ordinary every day casual dress (f)
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