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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: Lips Together, Teeth Apart |
| Title: | Lips Together, Teeth Apart |
| Playwright: | McNally, Terrence | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Year | 1992 | Genre: | Drama |
| Period: | 20thC1990s | Number of Acts/Scenes | 3 |
| Passage of time: | One day (9am to after midnight) |
| Basic Plot: | Sally has inherited a beach house from her brother who died of AIDS. Sally and her husband, Sam, invite Sam's sister and her husband to spend Fouth of July weekend with them at the beach house. |
| Contributor's Name: | Emily Smeraldo |
| Contributor's Email: | not available |
| Budget: | not available |
| Producing Organization: | not available |
Cast Size As Written
Male Actors: 2
Male Chorus Actors: 0
Total Male Actors: 2
Number of Characters as Written
Male Characters: 2
Male Chorus Characters: 0
Total Male Characters: 2
Costume Numbers as Written
Male Costumes: 4
Male Chorus Costumes: 0
Total Male Costumes: 4
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
Male Actors: 0
Male Chorus Actors: 0
Total Male Actors: 0
Costume Numbers (if produced)
Male Costumes: 0
Male Chorus Costumes: 0
Total Male Costumes: 0
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Female Actors: 2
Female Chorus Actors: 0
Total Female Actors: 2
Female Characters: 2
Female Chorus Characters: 0
Total Female Characters: 2
Female Costumes: 7
Female Chorus Costumes: 0
Total Female Costumes: 7
Female Actors: 0
Female Chorus Actors: 0
Total Female Actors: 0
Female Costumes: 0
Female Chorus Costumes: 0
Total Female Costumes: 0
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| Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes: Expansion: Script does not specify a change, but John may put on a new costume after going in pool and/or having tea poured on him. Reduction: Chloe's 4th costume is option if the audience does not see her during that scene. |
| Quick Changes: Chloe: 3 pages for first change, under 2 pages to change into r |
| Specialty/Special effects costumes required: |
| Other important notes: John and Sam fight; Sally throws tea on John and Sam; Chloe is a "clotheshorse"; Clothes used as props may also be a costume; Script calls for practical shower on stage; character actually showers on stage; Swimming pool onstage that actor gets in. The period may be updated. |
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