Characters
6 FEMALE / 3 MALE
JUAN CARLOS (Male) - Aged forties to fifties. Manager of the Hardcase Hotel - was once a manager at the Ritz-Paris but due to an indiscretion, he has been sent to The Hardcase Hotel as punishment. He is finally reaching the end of his “sentence” at the Hardcase Hotel and then he can return to his beloved Ritz-Paris.
AILEEN (Female) - a young (twenties or thirties) Irish assistant to Juan Carlos. Aileen is competent, quick-witted and more than a match for Juan Carlos. She has been relegated to the Hardcase Hotel, from a 5-star hotel, after she was caught selling stories of misbehaving guests.
VALÉRIE du PONT (Female) - Middle-aged or older, French, has the poise and grace of a former ballerina.
SHIRLEY (Female) - New Zealander, aged twenties to forties. Doesn’t understand the social rules of the rich or the unspoken resident rules of the Hardcase Hotel. A cheerful, high-spirited, straight-talking woman with a violent streak.
LADY DONCASTER-SMYTHE (Female) - English. Middle-aged. The quintessential caustic upper-class snob.
WALT (WALTER) BUCKLEY - (Male), middle-aged, American businessperson. Loud, brash, unscrupulous, and egotistical. Married to Barb (Barbara) Buckley.
BARB BUCKLEY (Female) - Married to Walter Buckley and perhaps 10 years younger. Thick nasally New York American accent. What she may lack in intelligence she makes up for in enthusiasm and unashamed emotion.
ALBERT (Male) - Of a similar age to Madame Gazda. Dangerously boring. Perhaps a Cockney Londoner.
MADAME GAZDA (Female) - Hungarian. A wacky, thick accented woman who takes very seriously her belief that she has psychic powers. Of similar age to Albert.
