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| Stan and Tony by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama on a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | One afternoon in the 1960s, two giants of British comedy met briefly, when Tony Hancock visited Stan Laurel at his home in Santa Monica. Hancock was a very successful radio and TV star of the 1950s and 60s whilst Laurel’s slapstick movies with Oliver Hardy were top box office in the 1920s-40s. This is a play suggesting events which may have taken place during their unpublicised encounter. |
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| Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
| Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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| A Stitch In Time by Mark Green |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a split (lounge and garden) set. |
| Synopsis | Young Alastair's dad has died, and his mum and granddad are bringing him up, and sister Holly too. Much to the family's disdain, Alastair, inspired by his late father, is convinced that he has invented a time machine. |
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| Stuff And Nonsense by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian murder mystery melodrama presented with a large dose of comedy |
| Synopsis | It’s Christmas, and the Squire is on his way to evict the entire household of down-on-his-luck Taxidermist Sid Softnut. But the family have a plan to prevent the Squire throwing them out. His sudden death from poisoning changes everything... |
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Switched by Frances A. Lewis
Performance by Carbost Village Drama won the MacKinnon Salver and the Wakefield Quaich Award for stage presentation, Scottish One-Act Festival, 2014. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. There are two off-stage voices which might be live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce, with a single set split between a dentist's waiting room and a living room. |
| Synopsis | Jeffrey gets himself into a tangle when his girlfriend Veronica and wife Claudia end up with identical handbags...
Note that a companion piece - AKA Charlie - is also available. The two plays function independently, but can also be played together. |
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| Tabbed by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The script is about a group performing a British Pantomime, therefore Widow Twankey is intended to be played by a man, and Aladdin by a young woman. The chorus is optional (the chorus part could probably be doubled by a couple of the principals.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy, set in the middle of a (disastrous) pantomime performance. |
| Synopsis | It's Panto time again for the Witherington Over Mired Brook Amateur Theatrical Society (WOMBATS), but things aren't going well... Aladdin's had a nasty accident and had to be replaced at short notice, the script is illegible, the stage crew are in revolt and the lights and curtain aren't behaving themselves either. Can Widow Twankey hold things together? |
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| Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours! by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults. A range of ages! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's committee night and the Chairman has been asked to introduce a surprise speaker. Little does he know what a surprise she'll be! |
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| Talk Show by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. (The doubling figure assumes that the Videotones (three female vocalists) are a recording rather than a live act!) |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set (a simple TV talk show studio bounded by dressing room and green room). Includes mild swearing and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Bunter Smiles is having a bad day. He's just found his wife cheating on him with an American actor, who just happens to be the main guest on his talk show. Little does he know how bad the other guests are going to be... |
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| The Talky Bits by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Many of the characters are written with a specific gender, but most can be changed! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of ten comedy sketches requiring little in the way of set or props (the most complex sketch requires a table, chairs and a few pieces of paper.) Most could be run front-of curtain. |
| Synopsis | Ten comedy sketches with a theatrical theme, designed to be interspersed between other material in a drama and dance showcase. The sketches cover the theatrical process from pitching a show concept through to first night nerves.
Most of the sketches are available individually. This collection is available at a discount to the sum of the individual prices. |
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| Tea and Biscuits by Paul West |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play. |
| Synopsis | The PTA committee meeting descends into chaos when Frank inadvertently uses Janet's teapot to make tea. Warring couples suddenly revert to teenage lovers and, despite Janet's best efforts, only Fatima can break the spell. |
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