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| John's Wife by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are four women one of whom appears at the start, another at the end (giving room for doubling). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. |
| Synopsis | When Chris's happy life is devastated by the accidental death of her beloved Husband, she feels that it has turned into a nightmare. Sara, her good friend tries to convince her that given time, things will improve, but is she correct, or, with the arrival of Maria, is the nightmare just beginning? |
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| Just Desserts [One-act Comedy] by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with elements of farce. Two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Simon and Caroline's plans to renovate and resell an old house are thwarted by elderly sitting tenant, Dorothy. Assuming that the old lady will soon pass away they proceed, only to find that Dorothy is far from death's door. The only solution seems to be to hasten her death by nefarious means, but Dorothy is up to the challenge. |
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| Keeping Fit by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three of the characters (1M, 2F) are described as being in their late fifties/early sixties. Make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play, set in a fitness room. |
| Synopsis | Two old friends are working out whether they need to work out at the gym, and discussing life and love while they're about it. A gentlemen enters, but will he come between them? |
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| Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) |
| Synopsis | Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. |
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| The Last Earl Grey by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act black comedy, told in vignettes and flashbacks.. |
| Synopsis | There's been an accident. A fatal accident. And now Dorothy wants her daughter, Lucy, to kill Mrs Butterworth. |
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| Leading Ladies by Christina Simpkin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set on a busy stage! |
| Synopsis | Bertha and Florence are backstage at the latest big production, preparing for the vital role they play in the piece. But they don't feed lines to anyone... |
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| A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) |
| Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Look For The Silver Lining by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | George hates change and is not happy that his mother-in-law, Nora, is coming to stay. How will he react to her news? |
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| Love Is Blind by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 necessary gender non-specific character and 2 or more optional characters. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Gary and April meet on a blind date in a restaurant. There is an age gap between them, and they quickly realise they are not well matched. |
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Medieval Help Desk by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Herald and Advisor are written as male roles. It is not imperative that they should be played as males. Likewise the Messenger is referred to as 'he' and as only one person, though there could be as many as five of her! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch - a torrent of parody and puns - set in a medieval office. |
| Synopsis | You've reached the Medieval Help Desk. How can we give you excellent service? |
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