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The First Born by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monologue set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | A woman reflects on her life and that of her child. |
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Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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Getting On by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for one actor - a good, subtle character piece. Minimal set requirements (a chair). |
Synopsis | Sixty-something Joyce is a lonely widow, but she remains remarkably tolerant despite being neglected by her ambitious son. |
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Going Digital by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue set in an armchair surrounded by remote controls. |
Synopsis | Patricia, in her eighties, struggles to adapt to the increasingly complex technology which threatens to leave her generation behind. |
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Grandma at the Village Fete by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute comedy monologue. Contains ripeness. |
Synopsis | A humourous monologue about the excitement at this year's village fete, with Grandma's fortune telling, the exploits of Camp Claude and a host of other village characters. |
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Grandma's Day Out by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue, no set or props. |
Synopsis | The story of Grandma's eventful day out with the Over-Seventies' Club. |
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The Green Bikini by Alexis Coward |
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 dark comedy monologue with no set necessary. One example of adult language. |
Synopsis | A woman discusses the change of her holiday plans and how they have affected her. Distracted by carpet stains and visitors, she incriminates herself. |
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High Hopes by William Campbell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. For a tall actress. (But in the absence of a tall actress, just saw the legs off the furniture.) |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue, in which the actress takes on various roles. |
Synopsis | Leonora is a significantly tall woman who has experienced frequent verbal abuse in the workplace because of her height. She relives past incidents, both imaginary and real as she prepares for her next job interview. |
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I 'Aven't The Foggiest by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Brenda is a gauche, middle-aged Yorkshirewoman. (Make your own mind up as to what that means.) |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue with no need for a set. |
Synopsis | Brenda recounts the day she went for a walk and got a lot more than she bargained for. |
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I Am Not Marilyn Monroe by Fiona Scott Patrick |
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 | Short comedy monologue, with plenty of acting challenges. |
Synopsis | Zara is a twenty-something who has trouble sleeping and uses alcohol to help her. Her alcohol infused confusion becomes her reality and her love of old movie stars puts her in a fantasy world. She plays at being Marilyn Monroe. On being Marilyn, she comes across a new confident in the form of a six-legged spider whom she very appropriately decides to name Bobby Kennedy! |
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