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I'm Famous by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two parents and their (late teens to young adult) children. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute play, adapted from the short story Joy by Anton Chekhov. Single set (an armchair), simple props. |
Synopsis | Mitya comes home to his parents with the news that he is famous. They will soon discover why... |
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I'm On A Train by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A neat, simple monologue that could be comedy gold in the right hands. (Minimal set requirements.) |
Synopsis | It's a tough day for businessman Tom Wright, as he races to Edinburgh in a last-ditch attempt to save his company. Sadly, things are not destined to go his way, and the phone calls he makes and receives on that journey reveal the scope of the disaster that unfolds. |
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I'm Worried About Our Planet by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary comedy monologue. No set requirements, but a park bench, mackintosh and flat cap would be advantageous. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | From the platform of his park bench, Gerald Grimble has some concerns that he wishes to share with us. |
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I've Been Expecting You, Mr Smirk by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Smirk, Kazmarov and Starkley are male. Grainger and Lee are written male but might have female counterparts. Tremaine, Ramona and Goodpenny are female. All other characters could be either gender. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy spy spoof for youth theatre. Lots of locations but not much set! |
Synopsis | When Anatoly Kazmarov, recently convicted head of international criminal gang STINK, is sprung from a top-security escape-proof prison, it is obvious that someone even more fiendish than Kazmarov is involved. This is clearly a job for The Secret Department's top man, the suave, debonair (but largely inept) Dirk Smirk. It's just as well that the impossibly beautiful Captain Tremaine is on hand to help him out as a plot to bring the world order to its knees gets underway. |
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The Ice Cream Man Cometh by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a street with the side of an ice cream van. |
Synopsis | After a long wet summer Luigi has been making the most of the sunshine, however not all the residents welcome him and tempers rise along with the temperature. |
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An Ice Mess You Got Me Into by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Erm, an Iceberg! |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue. No set, no props. |
Synopsis | An iceberg complains about the unexpected results of being struck by a certain liner in 1912. |
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If Music be the Food of Love by Ethan Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst all of the characters are written male, three could easily be played female (with minor name changes). |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute verse play for kids. Two scenes, but no set requirements. |
Synopsis | A greedy and selfish king is taught the value of life by his caring son and a local musician. |
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Impatience and Improbability by Nic Dawson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (hotel terrace) setting. A witty and clever intertwining of the mannered world of the eighteenth century and modern day mores - with a bit of farce thrown in. |
Synopsis | This diversion in One Act, dedicated with respectful admiration to Miss Jane Austen - with humble apologies for any liberties taken - sees Julia providing eighteenth century elegance and ambience in her unique hotel. The idyllic, mannered world descends into infidelity and recrimination as the modern day intrudes. |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The two narrators are written female but could be played male (especially if their names were changed to something more masculine than Agnes and Doris). |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, abridged (and slightly adapted) from the play by Oscar Wilde. A couple of narrators are used to set scenes so that the piece can be played with minimal (furniture only) sets. |
Synopsis | Bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, use convenient fictions when they wish to escape the more tedious aspects of society life. They both fall in love and become engaged, but their deceptions lead to much confusion. And Lady Bracknell has a lot to say about it all. |
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In a League of His Own by Mark Griffin Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage (or recorded) soccer commentator. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play set in an Irish student flat (the main features of which are a couch and a TV set). |
Synopsis | Soccer-obsessed student Eamo is unhappy with the progress of a local team because they're ruining his standing in the Fantasy Football league. And Eamo has a lot of money riding on the outcome. His flatmate, John, thinks Eamo should calm down, but then Mazza, a self-proclaimed legend, arrives to really stir things up. |
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