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Two For The Price Of One by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (kitchen-dining room) setting. |
Synopsis | Sarah is beginning to worry that her lorry-driver husband has a fancy woman in Coventry. Their daughter thinks 'augmentation' will help her keep a boyfriend, and Sarah wonders if it'll help her too. |
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Two Grunts For Yes by Jessica McHugh |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains one suggested piece of background music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with some strong language. |
Synopsis | Some college students return home with a few extra pounds, tattoos, or disappointing grades, but when 18 year old Irene McManus returns to her conservative southern household with her new boyfriend Tommy, things get messy between her and her mother, Delia. She doesn't disapprove of Tommy because he's ill-mannered or bad with words. The fact that he's dead, however, whips the prim matriarch into a frenzy. Can Irene convince her mother to accept her zombie boyfriend? Or will Delia convince her daughter that zombie boys are only after one thing: her brains? |
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UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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Ulysses and the Dogman by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Single set (figurative New York street scene, 1910). |
Synopsis | A Westerner visits New York to look up an old friend - and finds him regretting the enforced changes of marriage and city life, such as his duty to walk the dog... |
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Up, Up and Away by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. In addition to the four on-stage characters, there are five off-stage voices. Three male, two female. (These might be recorded but some sections would probably be better live.) |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with drama, emotion and humour. Contains mild swearing. Multiple locations, but achieved by lighting and a few props. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | It all starts with the funeral - although to the grieving widows, Elsie and Mary, this seems a bit final. But, from their new vantage point, James and Clifford find that they are able to look down, as well as look back. However, it's looking forward that gives them the most concern... |
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Variations by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two couples (otherwise no limitation on ages). |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play, single interior set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing) |
Synopsis | Two couples are rounding off a nice evening with drinks and talk, but a story in the local paper changes the mood and secrets are uncovered. |
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Wait... What? by Ted Evans |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (male) characters appear on stage, one of them only briefly. Two male and two female characters appear on a video shown on the stage. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, almost a monologue, in the style of a disjointed presentation. Some educational content about Attention Deficit Disorder. Includes opportunities for improvisation. Contains mild swearing |
Synopsis | An Attention Deficit Disorder sufferer talks about his experiences with a new wonder-drug and ADD in general, but ends up saying a little too much for the drug manufacturer's liking. |
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We Have To Talk by Don Lowry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain. |
Synopsis | Three relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons. |
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Wedding Party by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four adults (to be played by adults or teenagers). |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | An upper class couple are free with their opinions and distain at a friends' wedding and end up embarrassing themselves with their assumptions. |
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What A Performance! by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play set in a theatre (stage and dressing room). Some adult language. |
Synopsis | A small group of actors are in a small provincial theatre as their performance ends - the action follows them to the (shared) dressing room. Petty jealousies give way to their assessments of what acting and theatre are all about. |
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