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Snapshot: Bee-u-ti-ful

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

Do you get along with your sister? Do you think she’s a freak? Does she think you’re the freak?

Meet Catherine: high school royalty, cheerleader, pageant queen. Meet Cosette: homeschooled wunderkind, national spelling bee champ, knows a lot about rats. When Cosette decides to leave the nest and enter Catherine’s glittering, chaotic high school world, the collision is nuclear.

A play about sisters, status, and the sting of standing out - where the pressure to fit in gets so intense, it conjures up GIANT TALKING BEES. (Yes. Literal bees. With opinions.)

Witty, weird, and full of emotional honey, the play asks what does it really mean to belong - and can a photo fix a broken bond?

Sisters. Spelling bees. Fruit leather. Frenemies. Freak-outs. Say cheese!

An awesome character piece for your next competition!

Also available in a one-act version (Titled: Beauty and the Bee) here.

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 35 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
12 Characters
2 M 5 F 5 Any Gender
Set
Simple set
Length
31 pages
Free Excerpt

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12 Characters

  • 2 Males
  • 5 Females
  • 5 Any Gender

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

  • CATHERINE Female 140 lines
    Oldest. 17. A cheerleader. Used to be involved with pageants. Godenot is pronounced Goh-de-no.
  • JULIAN Male 45 lines
    Middle. 15. Laid-back and easygoing, on a never-ending quest to add processed junk food to his parentally-enforced healthy diet.
  • COSETTE Female 139 lines
    Youngest. 14. A homeschooled national spelling bee champion. A genius.
  • LOUIS Male 30 lines
    Cosette’s friend.
  • LAUREN Female 12 lines
    Catherine’s friend.
  • BETHANY Female 20 lines
    Catherine’s friend.
  • PEG Female 14 lines
    Cosette’s friend.
  • THE BEE-MUSES Any gender 12 lines
    Queen Bee, Reve, Cogi, Daze, and Mare.

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