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The Greatest Invention In History by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Scientist is a gender-neutral description. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch, no set, just a few props. (For those who don't have a matter transporter handy, teleportaion/materialisation may be represented by a sound effect.) |
Synopsis | A scientist about to reveal his world-changing invention has a number of unexpected interrupting visitors. |
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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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Health and Safety by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters - a schoolmaster and three boys - are written male, but need not be. They also need not be played by actors of appropriate age - it is, after all, a send-up. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set and no props - which is really the point of the sketch! |
Synopsis | A cautious schoolmaster is keeping the Health and Safety bods happy by holding cricket practice with not bat, no ball and no netting. And all this practice is for the match next Saturday, where just to be extra safe, there'll be no opposing team... It is, of course, Health and Safety gone mad. |
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Heaven's Gate by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
Synopsis | Newcomers checking in at the gates of Heaven. (See also Hebrews 1, 1-3) |
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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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If The Shoe Fits by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, with a rehearsal room setting. |
Synopsis | Vicky and Sam are both trained dancers and actresses, auditioning for the part of Cinderella in a production called 'Cinderella Ballerina'. When they meet each other inside the audition room they begin to have doubts. Will they get the part they have always coveted? Will they actually want the part - once the director has revealed his ideas? |
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