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No Joy! by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dramatic sketch set in a railway platform cafeteria. |
Synopsis | When Joy chances to meet Bill, her estranged husband of many months, in a railway station cafeteria, they both learn that events have moved on in the life of the other. But which of them is now faring the better? |
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Nothing Extravagant by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A blind date where these two have figured it all out! |
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Notice How Young I Look by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A blind date turns into a commercial endorsement. |
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A Price to Pay by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are a male teenager and an adult lawyer of either gender. (The adult could be played by another member of a youth theatre company.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short and snappy drama that would be very easy to stage. |
Synopsis | Teenager James is being interviewed by his solicitor whilst on remand for the murder of his father. It is clear the father was violent and abusive, but why has James' mother made him promise the world won't know? |
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Red or Blue? by David Hendon Sky Blue Theatre - British Theatre Challenge 2017 - Winner. |
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 two-hander on a simple living room set. |
Synopsis | Following a couple’s night out, a minor disagreement about colour leads on to a major incident. |
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Responsible People, Good Work Ethic by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A blind date finds two people who are very well matched - but only to each other! |
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Slimmers' Planet by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
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 | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | Martin, looking for love, meets Lorna, looking for weight loss. |
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Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
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 drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
Synopsis | After a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. |
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Strangers When We Meet by Scott Carpenter |
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 | A ten minute play. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and Eira are both in their sixties, and looking for love. As the two make awkward small talk, childhoods are revisited and memories are stirred. Perhaps they are not strangers at all |
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Ten Minutes Left by Bart Meehan |
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 with minimal set requirements. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | A couple’s previously staid relationship blossoms as they wait, knowing there are only ten minutes before an unknown catastrophe arrives. Is there time to remember their first meeting? |
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