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Hotel Mikado by S. P. Franksson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One (female) character is a recorded voice only. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | Wendy and Kevin return to their honeymoon hotel room for their 10th anniversary. They discover her ex-husband is at the same resort with a friend. Coincidence? Not at all. Henry's a scorned and bitter man who still holds a huge candle for his ex-wife, and he means to win her back. |
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How On Earth by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen minute sketch for four actors. |
Synopsis | How (short for Howard) has been told by his mum that he was given to her by a celestial being. Now, the workman building the house extension reveals that the greater power in question actually works for The Opposition. How is left to consider his place in the astral conflict. |
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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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I'm Famous by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two parents and their (late teens to young adult) children. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute play, adapted from the short story Joy by Anton Chekhov. Single set (an armchair), simple props. |
Synopsis | Mitya comes home to his parents with the news that he is famous. They will soon discover why... |
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In the Secret Service by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. In addition to the principal male protagonists, there are voice-overs from two female characters - of course these could be recordings or voiced live. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Single office set - a desk and two chairs. |
Synopsis | A hopeful job applicant attends an interview for the Secret Service. |
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It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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It's All Greek by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of short comedy plays featuring Ancient Greek heroes and god. A set of riffs on myths. |
Synopsis | Five funny plays, each with a cast of two or three, Locations include Troy, Mount Olympus, the skies and a couple of unexpected Ancient Greek offices. |
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Jim Jam by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jim, his wife Mary, and one of their sons, are all stuck in a traffic jam. Jim’s frustrated, his wife is trying to stay serene, and their son is desperate for the loo. |
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Keeping it Clean [Three-hander] by Gill Medway |
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 female voice. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy-drama with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Cleaner Violet has a new client, Miss Gresham, who is clearly not as innocent or as prim and proper as she appears, but the lascivious goings on next door are not what they seem. |
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Ketchup by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch |
Synopsis | Mom and Dad are preparing to have the talk with their children. But first , there's the small matter of convincing them to eat their vegetables. |
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