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    Price of Admission

    By Christina Hamlett and Jamie Dare

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    There's nothing wrong with parents wanting their offspring to have the best education money can buy. Unless the price crosses a line which can't be erased.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristina Hamlett
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781393851356
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    Christina Hamlett

    Former actress and theatre director Christina Hamlett is the author of 42 books, 174 stage plays, 5 optioned feature films, and squillions of articles and interviews that appear online and in trade publications worldwide. She is also a script consultant for stage and screen as well as a professional ghostwriter. For further information, visit her website at www.authorhamlett.com

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      Book preview

      Price of Admission - Christina Hamlett

      Cover photo by Dmytro Sidelnikov 123rf

      Cover design by Christina Hamlett

      This script cannot be produced without written permission from the authors.

      For performance rights, please direct inquiries via www.authorhamlett.com

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      CASSIDY WESTFIELD - a high school senior

      CLAIRE WESTFIELD - Cassidy's mom

      BLANCA - the Westfields' middle-aged housekeeper

      CONNOR HAYES - Cassidy's boyfriend

      DULCE HERNANDEZ - a high school senior

      MARU HERNANDEZ - Dulce's mother

      ESTELA GARCIA - a middle aged customer and friend of Maru

      MRS. WOO - an Asian grandmother

      ANTHONY WOO - a high school senior and Mrs. Woo's grandson

      VANESSA DRAKE - mother of one of Cassidy's classmates

      CARLTON HAGUE - a college admissions director

      ALLISON DEVERAUX - an FBI agent

      BEN OSBORNE - an FBI agent

      SABINA DRAKE - a high school senior

      CIRCA AND SETTING: Present-day Los Angeles

      SET DESIGN: All action transpires on a single set with three distinct staging areas, the largest being the living room in the center. Each space is illuminated only when a scene is taking place; the rest of the stage is in darkness.

      Stage right is the office of the college admissions director and should be set farther downstage to distinguish it. Door stage right. Its upstage wall features framed awards and certificates. There is a desk, desk chair and two visitor chairs.

      Stage left is a small taqueria; it, too, is set farther downstage. Its upstage wall contains a festive menu board. There is a counter with two colorful bar stools and a cash register.

      The main playing space in the center is the upscale living room of a home in Los Angeles. It contains a love seat, coffee table, wing chairs and an upstage credenza with a large arrangement of flowers in front of a floor-to-ceiling window that looks out on blue skies and palm trees. On either side of the window are arched open doorways. Expensive art adorns the walls.

      AT RISE:

      CASSIDY and her mother CLAIRE enter, laughing, from the upstage right doorway. They both wear oversized dark glasses and each carries multiple shopping bags from designer boutiques. Both are trim, tan and fashionistas. Exhausted, they plop their bags on the floor and plop themselves onto the furniture as they remove their dark glasses.

      CLAIRE

      Was there any shop we missed? I swear Rodeo Drive will have to completely restock!

      CASSIDY

      You're the bestest, bestest mom ever!

      CLAIRE

      Oh Cassidy honey. You're not just saying that because I bought you three more pairs of Jimmy Choos?

      CASSIDY

      Well duh. It's not like I didn't really, really need them.

      Claire reaches into the nearest bag and pulls out a designer shoe.

      CLAIRE

      Ulterior motive actually. We do wear the same size. I can wear these to the Langhams' party next weekend.

      Cassidy goes to playfully grab it back as BLANCA, the housekeeper, enters from the upstage right doorway.

      BLANCA

      Excuse me, Senorita

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