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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: What the Butler Saw

Title:  What the Butler Saw
Playwright:  Joe Orton  Publisher:  French, Samuel Inc.
Year  1969  Genre:  Other
Period:  20thC1960s  Number of Acts/Scenes  2 acts
Passage of time:  real time
Basic Plot:  A series of mistaken identities occurring in a psychiatric hospital.
Contributor's Name:  Jen Kracht
Contributor's Email:  jenlane@gmail.com
Budget:  
Producing Organization:  
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  4
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  4
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  4
  Male Chorus Characters:  0
Total Male Characters:  4
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  5
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  5
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
  Female Actors:  2
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  2
 
  Female Characters:  2
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  2
 
  Female Costumes:  2
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  2

  Female Actors:  0
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  0
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  Most changes occur on stage.
Quick Changes:  
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  Nicholas Beckett needs one prop dress identical to to the ladies' pink dress.
Other important notes:  

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