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Gold! by Kate Stafford |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing). |
Synopsis | Julie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them. |
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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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Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) |
Synopsis | Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. |
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Leading Ladies by Christina Simpkin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set on a busy stage! |
Synopsis | Bertha and Florence are backstage at the latest big production, preparing for the vital role they play in the piece. But they don't feed lines to anyone... |
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Life by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The main characters are all 'mature ladies' - the production notes describe two as being in their sixties, the others a little younger. That's playing age. There is plenty of scope for younger players with make-up! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single café set. |
Synopsis | Three pairs of women take separate tales at a café and discuss their lives, only to find that all of them have at least their opinions in common. |
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Lily and Mona by Naren Weiss |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (female) character is offstage voice only. Three (gender non-specific) characters are non-speaking 'dead bodies'. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Oddball twins Lily and Mona are finding their superpowers a little difficult to control, resulting in mysterious deaths and parental admonition. |
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Loitering Within Tent by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play, single set (a Bedouin tent), simple props. |
Synopsis | A Tourist party of ladies from the Women's Institute are treated to the 'Bedouin Desert experience', unaware that there is more to it than meets the eye... |
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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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Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Disappearing Trombonist by Richard Moon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Three male roles, but playable by the same actor. Five female roles, requiring at least four actors. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. An original case for Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper (although she does help solve a better-known Holmes case on the side). |
Synopsis | A young man walks into his house and, apparently, disappears from the face of the Earth. But Daisy has fallen in love with him, and wants to know what happened. Mrs Hudson and Mrs Madingley investigate. |
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A Mystery Tour by Colin Calvert Production by Plockton ADS won the Statuette and Stage Presentation Salver at the South West Ross District SCDA festival, 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. George the driver is written male, but could be changed easily to make it an all female cast. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, set on a coach (which can be as simple as a couple of rows of chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's the fifth annual Flower Arranging society mystery tour, and they've been out to Blockley Castle, just like every other year. But this year there's an escaped elephant, a missing kleptomaniac, the discovery of a mistress and the most tragic secret yet... |
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