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| Casual-ty by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak... |
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| Casualty Chaos by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play which doesn't rely on traditional doctor gags for laughs, instead creating plausible but zany situations which work well in the established 'almost real' world. Single split-stage set. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy few days in the Accident and Emergency department - they're short of Doctors but long on impatient patients. People are plastered, the sole doctor is plagued by rats and can't finish his knitting, and the devastating fire just slows things down a little. |
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| The Cat and the Dog by Victor Callen |
| 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 | This is, essentially, a talking heads piece, but since the heads are those of a cat and a dog, the comedy could be enhanced by costume or make-up. (Some animal content.) |
| Synopsis | A simple conversation piece between a cat and a dog about the relative merits and disadvantages of their places in life and the household. |
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| The Cat Club by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are cats (anthropomorphised and inhabiting a very human environment). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a comedy and character piece with a single bar-room set. |
| Synopsis | A group of cats meet up at their regular haunt to share some sad news about one of their number. They remember her fondly (in the main) and decide how they will go on. |
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Catapult by David Lovesy
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and an offstage voice. Roger and Geoffrey are written male but gender is unimportant and names can be changed to fit the gender of the available actors. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Two medieval peasants try out a new, quick, cheap form of transport. |
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| Catch As Catch Can by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, in a single set. A comedy, which is not what one expects from Othello. |
| Synopsis | An alternative history of Othello, playing with our preconceptions of Shakespeare's characters. A worldly wise Iago is giving advice about women to a distraught Cassio, who cannot bear to see Desdemona married to Othello. But Iago's wife seems to be openly flirting with the General, and Desdemona isn't happy... |
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| Caught Out by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two burglars break into Mrs. Forester-Brown's House, but their noise attracts attention. Meanwhile, Mrs. Forester-Brown's husband has gone missing... |
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| A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
| Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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| The Cautionary Tale of Eva Bird by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
| Synopsis | The cautionary tale of Eva Bird - the Nuclear Nightingale. |
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| The Cautionary Tale of Georgie Porgie by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The narrotor's lines could be split amongst several people. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming morality play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The familiar tale of Georgie Porgie, whose bullying ways lead him to a grave end, is brought to life in an innovative manner. |
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