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The Final Eppy Log by Laurie Hornsby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One on-stage character plus an offstage newsread (single line) which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a single bedroom set. |
Synopsis | On the night he is destined to die of a drug overdose, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, reflects on his life and career. |
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The Florist by Iris Winston Winner of the Ottawa Little Theatre national playwriting competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. Single set (florist's shop). |
Synopsis | George Bernard Shaw drops into a Flower shop run by a lady called Liza and they talk of her old friends, and the life she has led. |
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Gifts by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but an option for a live choir. (Not many people will take up this option.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play, single set. A fantasia on the theme of the twelve days of Christmas. |
Synopsis | A customer enters a shop that claims to arrange any type of gift with a very specific Christmas list... One that sounds awfully familiar. |
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Help Me Get Over You by Rollin Jewett Finalist - 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF), NYC. |
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 | A comedy duologue sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Having ended his relationship with Phyllis, John is having withdrawal difficulties. Much to Phyllis’ initial annoyance and incredulity, John enlists her help with his problem. |
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Hunting Yetis by Andy Haynes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Michael is definitely male. The Yeti seems to be male, but it's hard to tell owing to the Yeti costume. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (mainly a couch). Simple, funny and touching. |
Synopsis | Michael wasn't expecting anyone to call, certainly not wearing a yeti suit. But this yeti comes bearing gifts - a pair of binoculars, a butterfly net and a letter Michael wrote when he was small, about how he was off to hunt yetis. Oh, and there’s a ticket to the Himalayas too... |
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I Googled You by Jonathan Edgington Selected for and performed at the 2017 Salisbury Fringe 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival. Shortlisted for the 2018 Actor Awareness Intergenerational Night. |
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 | Short comedy play for two actors. Can be performed on a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Felix and Truly meet for the first time on a blind date. Felix is at first taken aback by Truly’s antics in her garden but the date goes ahead. Afterwards, the pair give a surprising final assessment. |
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In Transition by Simon Darlington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (triathlon transition area) setting. |
Synopsis | Divorced Brian, an experienced triathlete, and spinster May, a first-timer, meet at the start point of the race. Both have widely different reasons for participating and neither had any thoughts of romance before the event, but their thoughts are soon dispelled as their relationship develops. |
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Invisible Fingerprints by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both the characters are written male, but could probably be played female with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements. |
Synopsis | Ben has spent four years battling depression and addiction, but thanks to his new-found faith he's back at his screenwriting job with a new script. Sadly for Ben, Stan the Producer isn't blown away by the script. He talks Ben into trying more worldly material, but has sinister reasons... |
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The Joke Centre by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute skit. Single office setting. |
Synopsis | It is Sylvia's first day in the new job. All she has been told is that it is a sort of call centre and that she'll pick it up as she goes along... |
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Kit Kat Man by James Addis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An efficient spy drama - like a compact Le Carré. Realistic dialogue leading to a surprising but well-planted twist. Simple set - another chance to wheel-out the park bench. |
Synopsis | Moscow, near the end of the Cold War. Paula Wilson seeks to coax the defector Gerald Soames back to Britain, ostensibly as a means of undermining the intelligence Soames has given to the Soviets. In reality, her motives are more sinister. |
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