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Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office. |
Synopsis | This is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'. |
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Disloyalty by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama |
Synopsis | After twenty years of marriage Chris is unimpressed when her husband Gary buys her a present of an exercise mat. Having used every excuse possible to delay her exercise session, including housework and a coffee with her best friend Lou, she feels duty bound to give it a go and feel the burn. It is during this exercise session that Gary arrives home and drops the bombshell. |
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Don't Touch the King by Anna Russon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Recovering from psychiatric difficulties, Danny finds solace in playing chess with his friend Aiden. As the game progresses, it becomes clear that Aiden is not the person Danny thought he was. |
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Double Walker by Henry P. Gravelle Honorable Mention - Show Off! Festival 2007, Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, CA |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play, single interior (psychiatrist's office) set. |
Synopsis | Bruce Arnold is referred to Psychiatrist Maria Dobbs after being linked to a series of deaths. He claims it is his shadow, his doppelganger that kills people who make him angry. Can the Doctor get to the truth... or is it already too late? |
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The Earthquake Drill by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | At a meeting of the Health and Safety committee, a demonstration of the earthquake drill is not quite what was expected. |
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Elephant Jazz and the Intergalactic Spores by Barry Wood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sci-fi comedy sketch in the manner of a cheesy 1950s B-Movie. Minimal set to indicate a living room. The script notes include a strong authorial opinion on comparative merits of certain comestibles. (He's not wrong.) |
Synopsis | Adam has shocking news for his wife - the Earth has been invaded by microscopic alien invaders! Who knows how far the infection might have spread? But Martha doesn't seem that worried. In fact, she doesn't seem like Martha at all... |
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Eleven Fifty-Six by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play (somewhere between drama and thriller) with a single sparse set. |
Synopsis | Nathan seems certain to remain in the hospital - found wandering naked and confused, he has no records, no identity, no money. Dr Caulfield thinks he's deluded, but there's something compelling about his claim to be a time traveller. Then there's his urgent desire to leave London... |
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Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play which might, because it treats the same subject in a variety of ways, be viewed as a series of sketches. Minimal setting (a pair of chairs, representing a car). |
Synopsis | A group of alternative endings to the story of Bonnie and Clyde, to be used in no particular order. A comic treatment of a serious event, for three actors. |
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Falling Apart by Peter Harrison 2007. Sale One-Act play festival. Joint winner for Best Original Play under original title of The Lift. Production by Altrincham Garrick. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is an off-stage voice, but since he converses with the other characters it is assumed that this should be done live. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single very simple setting. |
Synopsis | Upon leaving their solicitor's office having arranged their divorce settlement Amanda and Andrew find themselves trapped between floors in the lift. The recriminations around their marital problems continue until the arrival of the lift attendant who manages not only to repair the lift but also their marriage, even though he is not all that he seems. |
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Fast and Furious by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A customer, a helpdesk operator and a voiceover (which could be recorded) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch requiring a couple of desks. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A computer user tries to get help with a technical problem. |
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