Nice Girl
by Amanda Murray Cutalo
Mia knows how to be a confident and assertive young woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself; the only problem is she can only act this way in her fantasies.
Average Producer Rating:
About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
11
11 W, Plus Ensemble
Simple set
25 pages
Reviews from Past Producers
Is there such a thing as being “too nice?” Mia, a teenage girl at an all-girls school, knows how to be a confident and assertive young woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself; the only problem is she can only act this way in her fantasies.
In Mia’s reality, she is the kind of girl who does her friends’ homework, lets people cut in front of her in line, and pretends to be someone she’s not in order to get a boy to like her.
As she repeatedly learns, being the “nice girl” requires a great deal of sacrifice and, often, frustration. As Mia eventually nears her breaking point, she decides the time has come for her fantasies to become reality.
Characters
11
11 Women, Plus Ensemble
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YOUNG MIA
[W]
11 lines
- Told always to ignore people if they pick on you. That’s gonna do some lasting damage.
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MIA
[W]
126 lines
- Nice Girl. Doormat. Prone to violent fantasies. One monologue.
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MIA’S MOTHER
[W]
10 lines
- Means well, as all mothers do.
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ANGIE
[W]
35 lines
- Likes Mia a lot. Perhaps more genuinely than the other girls.
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JEN
[W]
37 lines
- Cruel, unusual. Takes her cues from Maggie.
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MS. PARKER
[W]
32 lines
- Wasn’t born yesterday. Can see right through the schemes of her students.
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COACH STANFORD
[W]
5 lines
- Does her best, as all coaches do.
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LAUREN
[W]
9 lines
- Good dodgeball player, bad human being.
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JILLIAN
[W]
8 lines
- She should take advice from Polonius, and neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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MAGGIE
[W]
41 lines
- Frenemy Number One.
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LOLA
[W]
10 lines
- A bit of a tattle-tale
- Subgenres
- Character study
- Settings
- Present day
- Dress
- Contemporary costumes
- Audience
- Teen
- Features
- All female cast Character study Physical comedy Stage combat
Prop List
Dodgeballs, Notes passed in class, Paper, White-Out, Bag, Sandwich
Multimedia
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Nice Girl
by Amanda Murray Cutalo
About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
11
11 W, Plus Ensemble
Simple set
25 pages