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What's Wrong with the Girls

One Act, Comedy
4 men, 3 women
Total Cast: 7, Open Stage
ISBN-13: 992189


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $40 per performance. MS.
THE STORY: Professor Delwyn C. Coots, the great authority on the young women, begins his famous lecture, “What’s Wrong with the Girls.” Being a truthful man as well as a scientist, the professor finds plenty wrong: the way girls walk, talk, dress, fall in love, marry, etc. To make his lecture more telling the professor has two actors demonstrate all these faults. However, this scientific demonstration is interrupted by a young woman, Miss Hazel Duckworth, who indignantly gets up from her seat in the audience and challenges the professor’s facts. Then with the assistance of two other actors, she shows up the human male as considerably worse than his female counterpart.