Set: Two simple sets; a club house bar and a bedroom.
Synopsis: In Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the women were trying to end the Peloponnesian War. In this case, it's their husbands' addiction to golf that's the problem, but the
method employed is the same (give or take the barricading of public buildings)!
Running time: Around 40 minutes (Caution! This is very dependent on your production.)
Notes: I had always wanted to adapt Aristphanes' 'Lysistrata' with a modern twist, however this was never going to be straightforward. In order for the modern women in the
play to appear as subjugated as their Ancient Greek counterparts, I set 'In The Rough' in the early 1970s, before women's liberation really took hold. It also means that a little
fun can be had with the costumes! The golf club, being the last bastion of the male chauvinist, seemed the ideal setting for the play and the characters
are, even now, hopefully ones that we'll all recognise.
Published: 2007
SAMPLE SCENE
Stella: You’ve got a plan, haven’t you? I’d know that look anywhere. Is it something big?
Mo: It could change your life. Give you Bernard back, and not on a bloody rota system.
Stella: I’m all ears.
Mo: (To Angie) I knew that would get her attention. I know a way to tempt them back off the golf course.
Stella: What? We’ll never do it. They're much too clever for us. They've spent a lifetime getting the upper hand. Holding the purse strings, paying the mortgage. All we women
do once the children have gone is keep ourselves all prettied up for our men. We've become lovely ornaments with no real purpose. We sit around in our floral dresses and
fancy shoes, deciding which mascara to wear.
Mo: And those are just the things that will save us.
Angie: But how? What use can they be?
Mo: I promise you no man of ours will ever again raise a club in sport.
Stella: Because of a floral dress?
Mo: Never more will they gather at the nineteenth hole with their beer while we sit at home and paint our nails.
Angie: Just what have you got in mind, Mo? What are you plotting?
Mo: Nothing less than victory, Angie. Nothing less than victory. But first a question. How fed up are you with your men disappearing every other day to the golf course?
Stella: We've had enough, Mo. It’s 1977. Things are changing all over the country. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it any more.
Synopsis: In Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the women were trying to end the Peloponnesian War. In this case, it's their husbands' addiction to golf that's the problem, but the
method employed is the same (give or take the barricading of public buildings)!
Running time: Around 40 minutes (Caution! This is very dependent on your production.)
Notes: I had always wanted to adapt Aristphanes' 'Lysistrata' with a modern twist, however this was never going to be straightforward. In order for the modern women in the
play to appear as subjugated as their Ancient Greek counterparts, I set 'In The Rough' in the early 1970s, before women's liberation really took hold. It also means that a little
fun can be had with the costumes! The golf club, being the last bastion of the male chauvinist, seemed the ideal setting for the play and the characters
are, even now, hopefully ones that we'll all recognise.
Published: 2007
SAMPLE SCENE
Stella: You’ve got a plan, haven’t you? I’d know that look anywhere. Is it something big?
Mo: It could change your life. Give you Bernard back, and not on a bloody rota system.
Stella: I’m all ears.
Mo: (To Angie) I knew that would get her attention. I know a way to tempt them back off the golf course.
Stella: What? We’ll never do it. They're much too clever for us. They've spent a lifetime getting the upper hand. Holding the purse strings, paying the mortgage. All we women
do once the children have gone is keep ourselves all prettied up for our men. We've become lovely ornaments with no real purpose. We sit around in our floral dresses and
fancy shoes, deciding which mascara to wear.
Mo: And those are just the things that will save us.
Angie: But how? What use can they be?
Mo: I promise you no man of ours will ever again raise a club in sport.
Stella: Because of a floral dress?
Mo: Never more will they gather at the nineteenth hole with their beer while we sit at home and paint our nails.
Angie: Just what have you got in mind, Mo? What are you plotting?
Mo: Nothing less than victory, Angie. Nothing less than victory. But first a question. How fed up are you with your men disappearing every other day to the golf course?
Stella: We've had enough, Mo. It’s 1977. Things are changing all over the country. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it any more.
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IN THE ROUGH (Click the title to read the whole script online at Lazy Bee Scripts)
Cast: 3m, 3f
RON, 50s or older. Married to Mo and proud holder of the post of club treasurer.
STEVE, 30s. Angie's husband and new to the club.
BERNARD, 50s or older. Stella's husband, Bernard, is an ex-military man and creature of habit who lives his life according
to a
strict timetable.
MO, 50s or older. Resourceful and determined, Mo is out to change her man. The instigator of an audacious plan to save
her
marriage, she's feisty and sticks up for what she believes in.
ANGIE, 30s. Newly married but already disillusioned, she finds herself on the front line in Mo's plan.
STELLA, 50s or older. Stuck in a marriage where everything (and I mean everything) happens according to a strict rota.
Cast: 3m, 3f
RON, 50s or older. Married to Mo and proud holder of the post of club treasurer.
STEVE, 30s. Angie's husband and new to the club.
BERNARD, 50s or older. Stella's husband, Bernard, is an ex-military man and creature of habit who lives his life according
to a
strict timetable.
MO, 50s or older. Resourceful and determined, Mo is out to change her man. The instigator of an audacious plan to save
her
marriage, she's feisty and sticks up for what she believes in.
ANGIE, 30s. Newly married but already disillusioned, she finds herself on the front line in Mo's plan.
STELLA, 50s or older. Stuck in a marriage where everything (and I mean everything) happens according to a strict rota.
Richard James / Actor & Playwright
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