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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Crew 60 Minute Version) by Jack Shaw
Published: 20 March 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 14 on-stage characters (played by a minimum of 9 actors) plus two offstage voices, which might be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very amateur theatre company present their take on Shakespeare. |
| Synopsis | Cowmoor Comedy Crew, a rural amateur group, perform a sixty-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The same story, with a preceding act, showing how the production came together, is told in The Dream! |
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50/50 [Short play] by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| 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 | Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test, despite encouragement from her partner Danni. A short version of the one-act drama of the same name we have already published.
A longer (one-act) version of this story can be found here: 50/50 [One-act Play] |
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Blackbird by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| 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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The Donor by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again). |
| Synopsis | The Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request. |
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Kippers Can’t Swim by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. |
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Magic Marge by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| 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 | Monologue from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Marjorie is an elderly lady who has lost interest in love and companionship and decided to spend her life in bed. |
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Nice Out, Isn't It? by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, deckchairs only. |
| Synopsis | Enthusiastic Ken and disillusioned Brian sit by the seaside and reminisce about their lives, their favourite comedy duos, and lost loves. |
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Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 15 March 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
| Synopsis | After 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 |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | The 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 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of eight short plays, loosely on the theme of love. Multiple settings, but simple sets requiring just furniture (and not much of that). |
| Synopsis | Malcolm 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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