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In a League of His Own by Mark Griffin Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage (or recorded) soccer commentator. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play set in an Irish student flat (the main features of which are a couch and a TV set). |
Synopsis | Soccer-obsessed student Eamo is unhappy with the progress of a local team because they're ruining his standing in the Fantasy Football league. And Eamo has a lot of money riding on the outcome. His flatmate, John, thinks Eamo should calm down, but then Mazza, a self-proclaimed legend, arrives to really stir things up. |
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In the Magic Shop by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A customer seeking magic tricks enters a magic shop and suffers the consequences! |
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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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An Inclusive Joke by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. A sort of dry meta-humour - playing on jokes, stereotypes and global inclusivity. |
Synopsis | An Englishman, an American, and a Russian walk into a pub and attempt to have a laugh... |
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It's not the end of the World by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal office setting |
Synopsis | One of the most important questions about the zombie apocalypse: what happens to the advertising industry? After all, it's not the end of the world... |
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Job for the Boy by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three protagonists are written male (as so many politicians are), but need not be played that way. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Single set requiring just a desk, a chair and a bin. |
Synopsis | The election results are in and it looks like Marcus will be Prime Minister, but he'll need another party to make sure, so he'll have to offer Chancellor of the Exchequer to Gilbert. Which is bad news for Barnabas, because he so wanted to be Chancellor.. |
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Keeping up with the Andersons by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Damian Trasler.) |
Synopsis | Jimmy's dad thinks he has built the perfect Anderson air raid shelter, until he hears about his neighbour's. |
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The Law is an Ass by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written as male, but the judge could easily be played female. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play, single courtroom set. |
Synopsis | Old Lag Eddie Larsen is up in front of the beak again. Caught red handed climbing out of a shop window with a bag of swag, it looks like he's going down. But in a stroke of brilliance he defends himself with his own personal philosophy, making a believer out of the judge and earning himself a most unusual sentence. |
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A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) |
Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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The Loss of Atlantis 2 by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props. |
Synopsis | Subtitled 'An Atlantean at the Court of King Hotcotapetappl'. Three survivors from the deluge compare strategies for introducing Atlantean civilization to the savage land on which they have been washed up. The sequel to the 'Loss of Atlantis' (though it also works as an independent play.) |
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