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The Old Apprentice by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play, single office setting. |
Synopsis | A 65-year-old applicant for the TV programme 'Find Me An Apprentice' is interviewed by the surprised producer. |
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On Our Own by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are in their late teens - at an age to be leaving home. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy play. Single interior set (which can be kept to a minimum of a couple of pieces of furniture). |
Synopsis | Josh and Debbie are finally moving in together, despite their mothers' misgivings. They're confident that they're ready for this step in their relationship, but before the boxes are unpacked, they run into some problems. |
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On Stage With Shirley Bassey by Janice Sampson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One man and his urn. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monody (a monologue with a little action and a few simple props) for a dutiful middle-aged son. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | In this hilarious, and at times touching monologue we meet David who has come to sort out his recently deceased mother's bungalow. The most difficult part of his task is to deal with Mum's vast collection of Shirley Bassey memorabilia and even more difficult, though he won't admit it, to deal with his bereavement and say goodbye to his mother. Much to the embarrassment and annoyance of wife, Brenda he carries Mum's ashes around with him and is going through the process of taking Mum to all her favourite places. The final location he thinks of is Mum's ultimate dream - but will Shirley agree? |
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One Hundred and Eighty! by Jonathan Edgington Runner up in The Maskers Theatre's 2011 Humble Hamlet play writing competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute comedy, playing on Shakespearean themes. Contains swearing and adult themes (and a darts player). |
Synopsis | Toby Hamlet is coming home, but his mother doesn't know why. She does know he's broken a promise he made to his dying father by becoming a pro darts player instead of a lawyer. What could he possibly want to speak to his mother about that he can't mention on the phone? |
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One Solitary Line by Neil Walden Winner of One-Act Play Writing Competition at Wexford Literary Festival 2017 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is an offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (dressing room) setting. |
Synopsis | Two actresses cast in a Shakespeare play bemoan the fact that the Bard gives so few opportunities for meaty female roles. This causes their relationship to become acrimonious. |
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Out of the Trees by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two on-stage chracters and two off (who might be recordings). All the characters are written male, but, let's face it, they are all trees. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play with no requirements for set and props. |
Synopsis | Frank and Walt are a couple of trees who share tales of their conquests and pass the time bantering about tree life. They like to pick on the weeping willow on the edge of the forest, but will be friends to the end. Probably. |
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Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. |
Synopsis | Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... |
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Party Games by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are children plus two teachers (assumed to be played by children) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute classroom comedy play for kids, with a moral. |
Synopsis | The day before the Christmas Holidays, and the class are filling their spare time with various activities. Penny has a surprise for the school, but it's spoilt kids Amber and Jade who are the most surprised. |
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Peace by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy, somewhere on the boundary between a sketch and a ten-minute play! Single set, simple props, lots of loud sound-effects. |
Synopsis | A couple try to relax in the idyllic atmosphere of their holiday cottage, despite the wildlife, the handyman and the building work going on down the road, but is there worse on the way? |
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Perceptions by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play set on a park bench. This would be a romantic comedy, if only Alan and Dianne would let it. |
Synopsis | Alan sits on a park bench next to Dianne. They both have misleading impressions of the other until, awkwardly at first, they begin a conversation. Things develop between them in completely different directions from their first impressions. |
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