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The Man Who Mis-Sold The World by Chris Brannick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute comedy play |
Synopsis | Major Tom is in trouble, drifting through space and expecting death. What he gets is a visit from two parking attendants because his ship is on a double-yellow asteroid belt. Luckily, he has an idea about paying the fine. |
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A Matter of Taste by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The waitress and chef should be similar ages. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a single (café) set. |
Synopsis | Sheila and Natalie meet for coffee to sort out Sheila's complicated love life. Sheila's work colleague Karen joins them, and gives Sheila some food for thought. The waitress has a new boyfriend who just happens to be the chef. The four women discuss what they want in a relationship. But will Sheila find the right man? |
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Medieval Help Desk by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Herald and Advisor are written as male roles. It is not imperative that they should be played as males. Likewise the Messenger is referred to as 'he' and as only one person, though there could be as many as five of her! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch - a torrent of parody and puns - set in a medieval office. |
Synopsis | You've reached the Medieval Help Desk. How can we give you excellent service? |
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Meet The Neighbours by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy with a single domestic setting. |
Synopsis | Ted and Carol have an unhappy history of not getting on with their neighbours. But this time, even though most of their possessions haven't arrived yet,Carol is starting off by inviting the new neighbours round for a meal. How could it possibly go wrong? |
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Missing by Sue Bevan Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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Mother of the Bride by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a rhyming monologue or a piece for a cast of five! No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | A mother of four (unwed) daughters bewails the lack of matrimonial bliss in her family. |
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The Mother-in-Law by Ginny Davis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 adult roles and 3 optional non-speaking roles for children. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a three-part composite set (living room, bedroom, kitchen). |
Synopsis | Irene’s scheming elderly mother Grace needs to be cared for, so Irene persuades reluctant husband Peter that the best answer is for Grace to move in with them. What follows is a game of pig in the middle as the trio struggle to cope with the situation. |
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The New Patio by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The police are written male but could become female with a few small tweaks to the script. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and witty one-act comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | Sarah's marriage to Jeffrey is effectively over, even before he emails her to say he's absconded with fraudulently earned riches. She shows the message to the police, but they find no evidence of the crime. Can she be planning to join him or has she instead formed a liaison with friendly builder Ted, who has just laid her new patio? |
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Nickers by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A twenty-minute comedy on a simple set. |
Synopsis | A thief has worked out an exquisite plan to steal a diamond from an old man’s house, but when he gets the safe open, he finds he’s not the first on the scene. In fact, he’s barely in the top five… |
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