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Pointless Exercise by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Two ladies are having a break during an exercise class - weighing up the pros and cons. |
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Preferential Treatment by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. At least one character is addressed as male, but that doesn't make any difference to the sketch. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy skit, with no set reqirements (could be performed front-of-curtain). |
Synopsis | As the Titanic sinks, the call goes out to board the lifeboats, but strict rules apply... |
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Questions by Susan Vesey Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Edward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it. |
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Rags Or Riches? by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with an untidy set! |
Synopsis | Grunwald is not happy with recent company sales, but can the clothing designers make amends? |
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Reality? by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one teenager. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Startling fifteen minute play. Single set (just a couch), minimal props. |
Synopsis | What's going on? They appear to be a family, but they don't agree about who's who - or, indeed anything else! Parallel universes are colliding in one house, causing confusion about identity, location and time. (Okay, strictly, if they are parallel it should not be possible for them to collide, but the grammatical part of 'Multiverse' theory is not yet as advanced as the mathematics, so you'll just have to put up with an imprecise description!) |
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The Red Balloon by Damian Trasler Best Play, GDA Festival 2006 'A breath of fresh air' (competition judge giving 5 awards, Radnor 2010), Performance by Royal Manor Theatre won Best Youth Play at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set (bare stage, with a few items of furniture brought on during the piece). Few props. Explores the nature of live theatre! |
Synopsis | A couple interrupt the premier of a piece of Modern Theatre and claim it's all rubbish. The performer challenges them to produce something better, and the three begin to work on the piece together. What will they come up with by the end of the evening? |
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Reminiscing by Charles Dennison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, poignant, simply-staged one-act play. |
Synopsis | From the ease of his favourite armchair, James reminisces with his wife, Jenifer, about their early life together and about their children before their daughter adds a change of perspective. |
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Rosie by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Juliette is anxious for her feisty grandmother Rosie to meet and approve her new boyfriend, Jacob, who is considerably older then her. A previous connection between Jacob and Rosie is slowly revealed, much to Jacob’s consternation. |
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Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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Run Deep by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama. The main set is a writer's study, plus there's an auxiliary staging area, which could be as simple as a single chair. |
Synopsis | Rita Linklater, a writer of popular historical romances, has moved to a remote cottage in Cornwall on medical advice. Clare, her daughter, is unable to visit and is concerned that her mother will find herself lonely and isolated. But Rita has her own creative way of dealing with isolation. |
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