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Frozen Fish Sticks by Rosemary Frisino Toohey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Difference in the three ladies ages - for optimum casting. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | It's a focus group... And the focus of the focus group is frozen food packaging. But before long the three women involved are way off the charts with their views on men, sex and life. |
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Funeral for the Cat by B. G. Craig |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Elizabeth is written female, but could be played male (and renamed Elliot). |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A good mix of emotional drama and dark but gentle comedy. Easy to stage on a single living room set. US English. |
Synopsis | Judy, an elderly widow, is holding a funeral for her beloved and recently departed cat. Her daughter and granddaughter are alarmed to find that, since a pet coffin was too expensive, Miss Mopsy is lying on the coffee table. |
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A Good Man by Megan Ott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, set in 1930s New England, with various settings. |
Synopsis | Katherine and her husband Robert are apprehensive about the forthcoming visit of Katherine's sister Margaret, who has a psychological problem which may cause difficulties for them. Tension rises inexorably - as their worst fears are met. |
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Half Measures by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and efficient one act with wit and action giving an original take on the 'boring husband' trope. Easily stageable in one living room set, with just a bit of furniture shifting between scenes. |
Synopsis | Susan is fed up with her husband, who, after forty years of marriage, is more interested in his model trains than his wife. She wants an amicable trial separation, but Geoff refuses to leave. The solution involves a length of police crime-scene tape. |
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Harsh Lights by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with two settings (living room and park bench). Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Genevieve has had a turbulent time at secondary school, but events take a darker turn after cruel and thoughtless remarks from a teacher about her dancing abilities. She responds by making false accusations of sexual harassment, with severe consequences for the teacher and for Genevieve's parents. |
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Home Health by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a split set depicting two bedrooms. US English. |
Synopsis | David, recovering from difficult surgery, is confined to bed. His elderly bedridden mother-in-law is in another bedroom. Wife Sue bounces back and forth taking care of both of them. The arrival of a home health nurse puts the cat amongst the pigeons as she and David get a little too close. |
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Hot and Sweet by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Janet is trying to persuade her mother Ivy, who is suffering from the first stages of Alzheimer's, to come and live with her. Janet's concerns are increased when she hears about a con man operating in the area. Ivy refuses to consider her daughter's request, stating that her late husband Harry will protect her. Janet responds by saying to her mother, 'He can’t look after you if he's not here'... but can he? |
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I Don’t Think I’ll Be Here Next Christmas by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (Laura) appears as an off-stage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Cantankerous pensioner Jean always spends Christmas with her son John and his wife Sheila. The mutual dislike between Sheila and Jean constantly bubbles under the surface and is reflected in the presents they give each other. Everything threatens to boil over after an incident involving sixpences in the Christmas pudding (and a toenail in the Bombay mix). Fortunately for Sheila, their daughter Laura comes to the rescue. The play features the same characters as You Won't Know I'm Here - though works perfectly well as a standalone piece. |
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I Remember When by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three on-stage characters plus four off-stage (including two children) who might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single camp-site setting. |
Synopsis | John looks forward to re-visiting his childhood holiday campsite but his wife Sheila is not so sure, particularly when John insists his curmudgeonly mother come along too. |
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John's Wife by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are four women one of whom appears at the start, another at the end (giving room for doubling). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. |
Synopsis | When Chris's happy life is devastated by the accidental death of her beloved Husband, she feels that it has turned into a nightmare. Sara, her good friend tries to convince her that given time, things will improve, but is she correct, or, with the arrival of Maria, is the nightmare just beginning? |
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