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That Goal by Stan Duncan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, poignant prose monologue of appeal to people for whom interests in football and theatre intersect! |
Synopsis | Denis is an ex-professional footballer, whose visitors remind him of his past glories. |
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That Sinking Feeling by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue-sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A customer service call-taker deals with an unhappy customer - who is dealing with a situation on board the Titanic, and wants to know if the company will compensate her... |
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Three Sons by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, contemporary, minimal set, one simple prop. |
Synopsis | Waiting for a connecting flight, three men find they have something in common, though one is keeping a secret... |
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To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
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Tramp Business by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch on a simple park bench set. |
Synopsis | Whatever way of making money is good for Alan, a cunning tramp who wants to sell bench tickets to everyone else sleeping in the park. His unusual business, however, doesn’t keep him from expressing sympathy and concern for his fellows during their ongoing and miserable wanderings. |
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Trapped by Ian Cowell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act mystery with a single set, strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Two mysterious callers to a house are on a mission. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the mission will have dire consequences for one of the callers. |
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Utopian Rhapsody by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, containing a Christian message. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens and Washington Irving trade views and ideas over port in New York, leaving Dickens with a fine outline for a new holiday novel. |
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A Walk on the Wild Side by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Mary is feeding the birds in the park and bemoaning the local council’s latest ruling, whilst contemplating her arthritic hip. |
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War Prayer by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. No specific set requirements and only one prop (a rope). |
Synopsis | Mark Twain was no pacifist, but here he brings an angel to explain to a congregation the difference between a just war and Jingoism. (Human frailty prevails.) |
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Was Blind But Now I See by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit, telling and examining a well-known fable from a Christian perspective. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Five blind people encounter a curious object and work together to find out what it is, while a sighted pair react differently. |
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