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Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only.
SynopsisAfter a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom.
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Pie Eyed by Barry Lambert
Published: 14 March 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate.
Run TimeAround 22 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisThe rest of Detective Inspector Whalley's team put aside their differences and combine their various investigative skills to save Constable Hitchcock's career when he appears to have committed gross misconduct.
'Pie Eyed' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook.
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Three Little Words by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 14 March 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA collection of eight short plays, loosely on the theme of love. Multiple settings, but simple sets requiring just furniture (and not much of that).
SynopsisMalcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom.
Ken and disillusioned Brian reminisce about life, comedy duos, and lost loves.
Elderly Marjorie has lost interest and decided to spend her life in bed.
Overbearing Rosie drops off daughter Florence at the start of her first Oxford term.
Graham's ex-wife appears at his mother's funeral.
Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room.
Despite Danni's encouragement, Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test.
Malcolm hopes to appear at the wedding of his ex-girlfriend, but her sister has something to say about it. (Featuring returning characters from three previous scenes.)
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Something Old by Shari Gledhill
Published: 12 March 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy with a good mix of humour and drama, with effective twists. Easy to stage, with one setting and a few standard items of furniture.
SynopsisOn the morning of her wedding day, Amy wakes up in a dark and dingy cellar. She's been kidnapped by Jack, who admired Amy at school and is determined to make up for his past failure to connect with her.
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Accessory to a Murder by Richard Smithson
Published: 26 February 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male but Gallstone could be cast female.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA novel take on the police genre provides some good jokes. Very easily stageable - two actors and a desk with chairs.
SynopsisPolice officers Gallstone and Stott are serving the end of their careers in a retirement community. Frustrated that nothing ever happens, Gallstone demands that Stott become a maverick - just like on telly.
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BARF by Richard Moon
Published: 26 February 2024

BARF was one of the eight winners of the 2022 Ilkley Playhouse 8x8x8 Playwriting Festivaland was performed at the Ilkley Playhouse in April 2023.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA funny sketch with a nicely grim twist.
SynopsisPauline's dishwasher is broken and Joe is confident he is the man to fix it for her. But why is Pauline so interested in Joe's private life?
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The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams
Published: 23 February 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 54 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors).
SynopsisAfter the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events.
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Snow White Goes Dating by Jonathan Goodson
Published: 23 February 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters (ostensibly three princesses and a frog) and the off-stage voice of a pantomime dame turned TV presenter.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy in a simple set. Despite the fairy tale nature of the characters, the language and subject matter make it very definitely an adult production for an adult audience.
SynopsisPreparing to take the stage for a dating show, three very different princesses compare notes on the princes they've known, Charming and otherwise. Only one will walk away with the man behind the screen, unless they find an alternative.
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Two by Stephen O'Sullivan
Published: 23 February 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two retirees.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort one-act play for a cast of two. Set on a seaside bench. Gentle exploration of the characters of a retired couple.
SynopsisFrank and Rosie are at the seaside, trying to enjoy the environment around their new home. Frank is upbeat, but Rosie is more cautious. They talk about their life and family, then round off their visit with an ice cream from a proper ice cream van.
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Greens with Envy by Ben Francis
Published: 22 February 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA comedy monologue with no set or props, just the imagination of the audience.
SynopsisWhat has been going on at the allotments? Newcomer Morgan has filled his plot with erotic garden gnomes and christened his shed 'The Love Pad'. And there has been a mysterious break-in at Ralph's shed. Then Ralph’s wife goes on holiday, and nobody knows where she is...
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