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In the Mood by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (café) setting. |
Synopsis | Jeanie's little café is struggling to survive and a pending family problem could easily prove to be the last straw. Also, her apparent reluctance to tackle issues such as poor hygiene, inferior cooking, power supply malfunctions and a mischievous deaf cat isn't helping the situation. |
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The Innkeeper's Christmas by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
Synopsis | An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
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The Interview by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play. An unusually updated, piece of Dickens. |
Synopsis | An excerpt from David Copperfield - except that a lot has changed since the nineteenth century. David takes his good friend Traddles to discuss with the Misses Spenlow the matter of his engagement to their niece, Dora. |
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It's a Farce by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Does exactly what it says on the label, in two short acts (though of one-act length) with clever dialogue and physical comedy. Single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A professional meeting between teacher Ernest and the head of his department, Janice, is misinterpreted as a clandestine romantic liaison. Unfortunately for Ernest, the misinterpreter is his wife's best friend who cannot help reporting her observations. Add in neighbour Bob, who has suicidal tendencies, and cookie 'therapist' Marcia who has arrived to offer Ernest a massage and we have a recipe for farcical mayhem. |
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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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Keeping Mum by Barry Blaize |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic set. Includes mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Hetty nursed her Mum through a long illness, and now the old lady has died Hetty's sisters, Freda and Marion are there. Marion has come over from Spain for the funeral, but her companion, Carlos, arouses suspicions, as do rumours about Hetty's nursing. |
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Knock, Knock, Who's There? by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voices of one female laughing and multiple children, could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a living room setting. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | Yvonne is desperate for the council to arrange a transfer for her and husband Dennis, from their high rise flat in Barbara Castle Towers to a lovely maisonette with gnomes in the garden... Her case may be enhanced when a TV crew arrive to investigate poltergeist activity in the flat. |
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Language Lessons (II) Asking the Time by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice - could easily be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] May be separated into short scenes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of scenes put together in one act, or may be divided for short pieces. Minimal or no set requirements. |
Synopsis | A second set of crazy scenes to help hopeless English persons gain a better degree of fluency, in a foreign tongue. This time Polly and Glott prepare the audience for asking the time in various countries and even outer space! |
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Last Woman Working by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act satirical comedy with a single (office) setting. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Robots, with government backing, have taken over almost every job previously done by humans. Masses are protesting. Desperate to save her job in an electronics factory, Barbara Wooley takes an aggressive stand at her local MP's surgery. |
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Leading Ladies - It's Behind You by Christina Simpkin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, set back-stage at a (British) pantomime. |
Synopsis | Behind the scenes at the annual panto, two ladies compare notes on this production, other productions and other members of the cast, while various characters drift through on their way to the stage or the Green Room. |
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