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The Ratcatcher's Lament 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 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue. No set requirements. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | What happens when the bottom drops out of the rat catching market! |
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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Rubbish 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 2 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 | A review (part of a revue) of the changing attitudes to waste and recycling. |
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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Self Centre by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act prose monologue. |
Synopsis | As she deals with a series of customers, Vivi, a receptionist at a new age health centre, reflects on the circumstances that brought her here and the loss of her brother. |
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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Shit Happens by Elizabeth Riley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The producer's script includes an alternate ending featuring two additional (gender non-specific) characters. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark comedy monologue on a kitchen set. |
Synopsis | Kath’s up earlier than usual to ensure her packages reach Australia for Valentine’s Day. It’s important to her, because her husband always set great store by Valentine’s Day. Shame he won’t see it this year... |
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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Sponge Cake And Leopard Skin by Jane Hilliard |
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 fifteen minute comedy monologue |
Synopsis | A middle aged woman relates a somewhat stale, routine marriage and an exciting illicit adventure only to discover her husband’s amazing secret life which breathes new life into their life together. |
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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Step Sisters 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and energetic monologue. |
Synopsis | Enthusiastic aerobics teacher, Katie, tries her hardest to deliver her step class. Despite her valiant efforts to put her step sisters through their paces, she is faced with interruptions and setbacks throughout. |
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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Stop Shouting, George 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 comedy monologue with a simple kitchen setting. |
Synopsis | Ruth is worried about what has happened to her husband George's fashion sense since his retirement. |
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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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? |
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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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. |
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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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! |
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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