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| A Too Naughty Cinderella by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Not the Cinderella we know - this one is petulant and shallow to the extent that her Fairy Godmother has disowned her. In this situation, the Ugly Sisters find happiness with Prince Charming and his brother. |
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| The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
| Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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| A Tragic Tale of Unintentional Deception by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short tragi-comedy for kids. Fairy tales meet day-time television! |
| Synopsis | Fairy Godmothers Trinny and Suzannah are going to surprise Cinders, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with the news that they are all seeing the same Prince Charming, but a clumsy Floor Manager gives the game away to disastrous effect. |
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| Trawling by Tony Benge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy monody (a play, rather than a monologue recitation). Single minimum set - a nightclub cloakroom. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | In a delightfully conversational and friendly way night club Cloakroom Attendant - or should that be 'Coat Hanger' or 'Personal Items Controller'? - Leanne Fishwicik gives us an amusing insight into her work as she trawls through items left at the cloakroom to give us a run down on her regular customers' lives and habits. We get a glimpse of her feelings for dreamboat boss, Simon prompted by her trawling through his 'personal item' left in her control. |
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| Tribes United by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. Very flexible cast - the two tribes largely behave as ensembles. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play written to be used to develop children's movement, group work and dialogue skills. |
| Synopsis | The Sculptor Tribe are bored with each other because they all look the same. They go to the Clay Mountains and make a new tribe out of clay. All goes well between them until the Evil Beaky Bird intervenes. |
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| Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
| Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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| Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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| Tumultus by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the named characters are written male (for reasons of historical verisimilitude), but some could be played female. The two groups of supporters could accommodate a large number of extras, up to the capacity of your amphitheatre. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. This is based on a real event, reported by the military historian Tacitus. |
| Synopsis | In 59 AD, a disgraced Roman Senator, Livineius Regulus, put on a spectacular gladiatorial contest in Pompeii. An incident at the contest sparked a riot (the Tumultus of the title) between Pompeians and rival supporters from Nuceria. This play takes us through the events.
(The run time may be extended, depending on the time spent in gladiatorial contests and riot.) |
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| Twixt Heaven and Hell by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The gatekeepers above and below argue about the disposition of new arrivals. |
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| Two Big Nipple Tassels, 88 by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are in their seventies. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute romantic comedy. Contains mild swearing (and sauciness). |
| Synopsis | As the title suggests there are saucy references in this one act comedy set in Sunnydale Residential Home for the elderly. Two old friends, Ernie and Jerry meet regularly for a relaxing game of dominos. When new resident, sassy, mischievous seventy-year-old Elsie comes on the scene their idyllic routine is interrupted, particularly when mild mannered Ernie falls for her. Jerry tries to help his old friend deal with his thwarted romantic intentions as Ernie falls victim to his unrequited love for Elsie. |
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