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Accidents Will Happen by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. Non-speaking chorus of medical students. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set on a hospital ward. |
Synopsis | Jim goes to visit his friend Andy in hospital. The Doctor's bedside manner (or lack of it) rankles with Andy, who in turn tries the doctor's patience. |
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The Alf Factor by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. 3 characters are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch combining a Viking era setting with a satire on reality TV. |
Synopsis | Alfred is trying to rally the Saxons to move against the Vikings. Unfortunately for him, they’ve heard a story about the cakes, and they’re not impressed. |
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All By Myself by Robert Scott Best Seller The EGA Trophy for Outstanding Production, Best Male Support and Best Presentation by Rhyl Liberty Players at Clwyd Community Theatre Association Festival of One-Act Plays 2019 (UK) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four characters may be M or F |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with no specific set. |
Synopsis | Seven years alone on an island after his shipwreck have driven Larry to the edge of sanity, but that's nothing compared to the shock of discovering he's not - and never has been - alone! |
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All The Little Dickie Birds by Sharon Hulm |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. Contains some strong language. |
Synopsis | Richard Finchley is a bird enthusiast who fanatically monitors the garden birds on his computer, but when a new neighbour arrives next door with a pet cat the feathers begin to fly. The Finchleys have an adopted son and a teenage cleaner who get caught up in the chaos. |
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Artists Anonymous by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Ralph's mother is an offstage voice and could, conceivably, be a recording. The pizza deliverer is silent and compatible with whatever gender range is open to the producer! |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set. A sharp script with some interesting characters and real emotion in it. |
Synopsis | Three long-serving writers meet up for their weekly writing meeting. Will this be the one where they finally crack the winning formula, or just the one where Ralph, living in his parent's basement again after his latest marriage break up, cracks? That was a lousy sentence, but this time they think they've come up with a winner... they'll fake the death of one of the writing team and use the publicity to sell a story at last! But who will get the chop for the sake of success? |
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The Ballet of Fervour or Perhaps Bingo by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy-drama set on a stage or in a rehearsal room. |
Synopsis | A director is sadly disappointed in the calibre of actors available for his masterwork. But though they may not fit the requirements of his play, his assistant happens to have another script they're perfect for - if the director will also act. |
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Bill and Ben the Twilight Men by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters with playing ages from thirties to sixties. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy, single set (lounge bar of a village pub). Contains mild swearing and Lancashire accents. |
Synopsis | Bill is a curmudgeonly barman who nurses a desperate love for the landlady, Rose, but she's being courted by out-of-towner Ben, a suave, rich man. But a new guest at the pub, a spate of burglaries and the local copper's inventions combine to turn Bill's fortunes around. |
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Blackmail in Bohemia by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, with minimal set dressing required. A companion piece to Pemberton’s previous Death by Detective, inspired by Conan Doyle’s story A Scandal in Bohemia. |
Synopsis | When the legendary Inspector Bucket is hired to stop a royal prince from being blackmailed by a former lover, he is thrown into a fiery and passionate encounter with a femme fatale that threatens to melt his intellectual froideur and stir undiscovered emotions. |
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Blind Date, Inc. by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of linked comedy sketches set at a speed-dating event. Simple set - two tables, four chairs. |
Synopsis | A series of couples meet for the first time, introduced by Blind Date Inc. |
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Blind Date, Inc. 111 by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight scenes, eight couples - but since the stories run consecutively, the minimum is two pairs, with lots of doubling. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs. |
Synopsis | This follows exactly the same structure as the two predecessors Blind Date Inc, and Blind Date, Inc. 2 but with a different set of couples working out different relationships, covering a range of odd issues, with even Sherlock Holmes taking up the dating game! |
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