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A Bit of a Turn by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch on a minimal café set. |
Synopsis | Maureen and her Aunt Vera are discussing Brenda's latest accident. |
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Blackbird by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
Synopsis | Overbearing mother Rosie drops off her anxious daughter Florence at the start of her first term at Oxford. |
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Blackmail by Lynn Snyder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One role is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Tense full-length drama with political, and moral themes. First published in 2010, revised in 2013. |
Synopsis | A congressman is being investigated over the disappearance of an intern with whom he was having an affair. His son tries to remain loyal but may have to sacrifice his own political career. Then the son meets the sister of the intern and falls in love, changing everything. |
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A Blind Date by Rollin Jewett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute(ish) comedy play. |
Synopsis | An amusing case of mistaken identity turns out to have the potential for a serious relationship. |
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Bloody Actors! by Archie Wilson Halton Amateur Theatre Society won the Ralph Newble award for the best comedic moment at the RAFTA one act drama festival April 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single set. |
Synopsis | A group of retired actors living in a nursing home try to get along but events from their past careers make it difficult. The answer seems to lie in preparing and performing a play for the other residents. |
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Blue Murder at Gallows Bottom by Paul John Matthews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dark comedy with a dry wit and plenty of murder served up. Somewhere between satire and folk horror. Contains language that may be less palatable than the murder. |
Synopsis | The village of Gallows Bottom is cut off by a flood and the only place to eat is Monica's Pastie Palace, where outsiders Jack and Mona encounter some very strange locals. Jack comments that this is a good place for a murder, and he turns out to be correct. |
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The Boardroom by J W Hughes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Satirical Drama in a single set. |
Synopsis | The latest update to the TFP system did not quite go to plan - client companies lost a lot of money and the boss is furious. A scapegoat needs to be found, quickly, and the company's five most culpable underlings will have to decide amongst themselves which one's career is to be offered in sacrifice. But when the longest serving employee indicates his intention to take the fall on behalf of everyone else, suspicions are heightened, and rightly so, for there is a life-changing leaving settlement up for grabs. Confrontations and accusations abound in this one-act play, which takes a satirical look at middle-management meetings and the fluctuating personal agendas of their attendees. |
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Body Confident by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short dramatic monologue, with no set requirements (assuming that a pilates mat counts as a prop rather than set). |
Synopsis | Caroline, a Pilates teacher, attempts to counter ugly rumours which threaten to destroy her reputation and luxury lifestyle. |
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The Book Club Of Little Witterington - After The Fete by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | The ladies of the village book club have gathered to discuss Neville Shute’s ‘On The Beach’. Some of the members have not read the book and the others seem more interested in discussing - or rather gossiping - about people and events in the village which spill over into the meeting. |
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The Book Club Of Little Witterington - The Vicar's Wife by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) setting. The third in a series, it can be presented either separately or alongside the first two as a full evening's entertainment. |
Synopsis | The ladies of the bookclub have gathered again, this time with a new member, the vicar’s newlywed. Once again, gossip and tittle-tattle overwhelm the discussion of the chosen book, ‘The Rector’s Wife’, and the new member finds herself and husband Dennis are the centre of attention. |
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