Overview
- Female: 4
- Male: 1
Context
This scene never fails to deliver huge laughs as a small town ladies’ social club become amateur detectives and try to extract information from a suspect using a doggy shock collar. The glee which the girls torture poor Dewey who may or may not be a flunky in diamond smuggling ring is a great opportunity for over the top physical comedy as Dewey is first tied up and then zapped with the collar on “Pit Bull” setting.
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(Suddenly, the door to the other room opens and Dewey falls into the room.)
Grace: He was listening in on our conversation!
Leona: The nerve of him!
Esther: Get him, girls!
Dewey: (Reaching behind him in his waistband for his gun.) Back! Back, or else! (He is so shaky, he mishandles the gun and it goes off {SFX BANG!} making him drop it. Millie takes a stick out of her hair and picks up the pistol by the trigger-guard with the stick.)
Leona: Did you see the cops do that in the movies, Millie?
Millie: No, it’s just that I remember where he kept it and don’t really want to touch it… unless I have to.
Esther: Good plan, Millie. Leona, grab a chair for our friend. Okay, buddy. On the chair. Now. (Dewey is roughly pushed into the chair.) Who are you and what are you doing here?
Dewey: I don’t have to answer your questions. You’re not my boss.
Grace: Don’t forget who has control of the gun, Mister.
Dewey: I doubt that lady would shoot me. She looks like she’s a hundred years old.
Millie: 100? You’re lucky I don’t plug you right now. If you hurt any of my friends, I will demonstrate my prowess with this weapon, I guarantee it. Do you feel lucky, punk? Go ahead. Make my day. (Points the stick at him.) Pew! Pew! Pew!
Dewey: You still wouldn’t kill me in cold blood. I will not answer any more questions and if you detain me further, you all may be charged with unlawful confinement.
Esther: I have a better idea than killing you. Where’s Muttley’s present, Millie?
Leona: I’ll get it. It’s right here. It will look so Goth on you!
Grace: Let’s put it on St. Bernard setting. (Puts collar on Dewey.)
Dewey: This is an outrage! You have no right to do this!
Millie: Like hell we don’t. Sorry, Esther, I forgot… is “hell” okay? I recognize this guy’s voice. He was in this room earlier with that whiney, narcissistic woman, Daphne. You’re Dewey, Big Louie’s henchman!
Dewey: I don’t know what you’re talking about!
Esther: I think you do. Here. Give me that remote, Leona. Okay, Buster. Tell us about Big Louie or feel Muttley’s fate.
Dewey: I will not… OOOO! OW! OH! AAAUGH! (Reacts as if to a powerful shock.) All right! All right! I’ll talk! Ow! Ow! Hey, I already said I’d talk!
Esther: Sorry. I got a little carried away there.
Grace: Let me have a go at that remote. It looks like fun!
(The door bursts open and Daphne enters with a drawn gun. )
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