Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel? (See also Check Please: Take 2 and Check Please: Take 3.)
Specs
25-40 minutes
7 females, 7 males (4-26 actors possible: 2-13 females, 2-13 males)
Awards & Honors
#1 most-produced high school short play for 19 seasons in a row, from 2004-2005 to 2022-2023 (Educational Theatre Association)
Publications
The Best Stage Scenes 2004 (Smith & Kraus, 2004)
Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Random House, 2007)
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens (Playscripts, 2010)
Random Acts of Comedy: 15 Hit One-Act Plays for Student Actors (Playscripts, 2011)
222 More Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under (Smith & Kraus, 2017)
Foundations of Language & Literature: For Honors and Pre-AP English Courses (Macmillan, 2018)
