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| The Water's Edge by Michael Lill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Daniel is helping his wife to get to bed in her nursing home. She is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease and really doesn't remember him... |
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| The Way To A Man's Heart by David Weir |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy for two actors. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Following a frosty breakup, Ellie and Andrew meet to divide their possessions. Among them - a winning lottery ticket. |
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| We Have To Talk by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | Three relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons. |
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| Well-Read by Keith Badham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play, set in the reference section of a library. |
| Synopsis | Bethany is in the library and trying to study, but Jason seems determined to engage her in conversation. Worse still, she's studying Shakespeare, to Jason's disgust. |
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| What Goes Around... by Vicki Lloyd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun concept for a sketch. Entertaining interaction between the two characters, which builds to a suitable pay-off. Unusual set - a tall plant, a model of a castle and a giant shell - but probably cardboard cut-outs. |
| Synopsis | Two goldfish are circling in their bowl. One recalls their early life with a huge family in the ocean. The other thinks they're making it up. |
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| When the Cherry Blossoms Bloom by Steven A. Shapiro |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set around a park bench. |
| Synopsis | Unfit Morty meets athletic Sandy when he has a coronary while out for a run. Over a series of encounters at the same park bench, the two bond and eventually share their secrets. |
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| Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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| White Knight by P. B. Stenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An engaging horror drama which playfully explores the theme of gender-based assumptions. Some nicely written dialogue with an edge of dark comedy. |
| Synopsis | Ash is walking home from the pub when he passes a woman, Christina, sitting alone. He stops to check she is alright, but his assumptions about her are way off. |
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Within Required Parameters by Kelly Read
Production by Woodhouse Players won the 'Best Stage Presentation' award at the 2014 Waltham Forest Festival of Drama. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in the side-room of a hospital ward. |
| Synopsis | Martin is in hospital, awaiting surgery that will prevent another heart attack, but he's more worried about his wife. She has Alzheimer's, and his niece is trying to look after her. He needs his operation, and he needs to get home, but there's a problem with his insurance... |
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| The Woofer and The Flagger by Ethan Bortman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy with a single (market stall) setting. |
| Synopsis | Tourist, Larry comes across a simple market stall offering a free massage with purchases of bottles and sprays of various herbal products. As Maggie starts his massage he learns about her unconventional lifestyle. |
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