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Take a Seat by Gill Medway |
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 | Ten minute light comedy monologue with poignant moments. |
Synopsis | Freda loves her favourite bench in the park, where she can watch the world go by. But nothing has prepared her for the sudden appearance of a runaway bride. What advice if any can Freda give, especially when a desperate young man appears on the scene? |
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Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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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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A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
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To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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Trawling by Tony Benge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute comedy monody (a play, rather than a monologue recitation). Single minimum set - a nightclub cloakroom. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | In a delightfully conversational and friendly way night club Cloakroom Attendant - or should that be 'Coat Hanger' or 'Personal Items Controller'? - Leanne Fishwicik gives us an amusing insight into her work as she trawls through items left at the cloakroom to give us a run down on her regular customers' lives and habits. We get a glimpse of her feelings for dreamboat boss, Simon prompted by her trawling through his 'personal item' left in her control. |
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The Trumpeter 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 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | With a fanfare, we present the tale of Thomas the Trumpeter and his performance before Her Majesty the Queen. |
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up & down by Rob Ricards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is one speaking character. A second character makes two appearances to bring on props. (This might be done by a member of the stage crew.) The character is written as male, but could be played female with just a couple of name changes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play - essentially a monologue - set on the step ladder that is life! |
Synopsis | A character reviews the events of his (or her) life, using a handy step ladder as a metaphor. |
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A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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