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| Murdering Muriel by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The paramedic is written male, but could be either (with the occasional change of pronoun). |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, with no set requirement, and includes adult themes and language. |
| Synopsis | Barry's affair with shapely neighbour Caroline is the catalyst for their plan to get rid of Barry's wife Muriel. Death by poisoned chocolate pudding is their weapon of choice, but things go badly awry for Barry. |
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| My Friend Ed by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an offstage (female) voice. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script suggests the use of two songs for Karaoke! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short comedy in a single set. (Written for a living room with practical doors, but the set could be simplified to just furniture.)
American English. |
| Synopsis | Linda really wishes her husband John would change his ways. At least she thinks so, right up to the moment when he does change his ways, thanks to his disturbing new friend Ed. Just what have the two men been up to? |
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| Nailing The Audition by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the auditionee, Wayne, is written male, a female equivalent could be substituted. (This requires a little work because otherwise you end up with a production of Shakespeare's Juliet and Juliet, a tragedy too far ahead of its time to be staged.) |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | Finding the best cast for your show is always a problem... |
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| The Nearly New Sale by Paul Townsend |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act psychological Faustian drama with a single (village hall) setting. |
| Synopsis | After two long and painful years recovering from the death of their unborn child, Harry and Liz are presented with the opportunity to reverse their misery and grief. They need only sign it away to a dealer prepared to buy anything. With this prospect, however, comes the chance to correct more than just those few short years, as they realise that they can negotiate for better lives independently than they might have together. |
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| Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | A one act comedy, set in a single room in an old cottage - undergoing renovation. |
| Synopsis | Pete and Jools are modernising their dream cottage hoping to make it a family home. Their chances of having children are slim, but a visit from an intriguing old lady makes their dreams come true. |
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| Never Be Late by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are of high school age. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play about a first date - with some laughs and some surprises. Simple set (a couple of tables, three or more chairs). |
| Synopsis | Jim's just dropping into his favourite cafe when he sees his friend Sally waiting for her blind date to arrive. When she won't let him sit with her, he moves on to another girl waiting for her beau. Mistaking him for her date, she starts to fall for him, but it all goes wrong, and not just for Jim. |
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| The Neville Report - Village of Fear by Gary Diamond, John Fryer & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In theory, because it's a radio play, this could be done with a very small cast - Neville, the central character plus one other male and one female playing the rest of the characters. One of the characters - Harry the Leg - is purely a sound effect! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - a comic pastiche of a 1950s radio drama intended for presentation as a staged radio play. |
| Synopsis | A comedy radio play that pits intrepid reporter Neville Reville against the supernatural goings-on in Merry Waddle on the Weddle. Aided only by a leg in disguise, Neville braves the Portals of Hell (a pub), Lusty Wanda (a siren) and the evil Mordred to rescue Lady Purity! |
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| New Cat by Deborah Heath |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One (female) character is an offstage voice only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | Fang and Tom live a peaceful life with kind owners and a lovely garden. One day, they notice an intruder spraying their favourite shrub. When it looks like Ginger is going to threaten their cosy existence, they discover that he is just trying to survive during a terrible life change of his own. |
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| The New Neighbours by Rachael Morgan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage male voice. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy of manners with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When bodies suddenly begin turning up all over the village, two nosy housewives are convinced they know exactly which neighbour is responsible and they are determined to find out the truth. |
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| The Ninth Wonder of the World by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The Treasurer is written female, but if fact all the committee members could be either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set at a council committee meeting (so just a table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | An Upper Carworthy Council committee meeting is interrupted by a local resident who has big plans... |
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