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The Consultation by Rosemary Enright |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two main characters - consultant and patient - and a cameo from the nurse. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short drama set in a doctor's consulting room (furniture only). |
Synopsis | A very determined and opinionated patient confronts her Oncology specialist about his intended treatment of her condition. She challenges his views on a number of fronts, leaving him unsure of almost everything. |
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Contract Killer by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for two actors. Set in a pub but can be played on an open stage. |
Synopsis | Pub cat Tink's comfortable life is at risk when the owners call in a mouse-catching cat who wants to take his/her place. |
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Corner Property by Iris Winston |
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 male. The character with the pack would be the easiest to change. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. Single set (with no requirements - could easily be played front-of-curtain. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Joe and Peter, two former soldiers, beg for change on a street corner and watch the world pass them by - whilst underneath, there's a power struggle going on. |
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The Corruption of Patience Undercroft by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an off-stage voice (that could be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern pastiche of a Victorian melodrama (the same ingredients, but playing-up the comedy, rather than the Victorian sentimentality). Designed for a black-box set. Could easily be played as part of a Music Hall evening. |
Synopsis | During a village celebration for Queen Victoria's jubilee, sweet, innocent Patience Undercroft has ventured out to a barn, summoned by a note from an admirer. She is hoping that it comes from her childhood sweetheart, Victor Knightly. Little does she know that it is the wicked Squire Grimly Blackheart who lies in wait... |
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Count Ferdinand Von Finkelstein's Fabulous Freak Show by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Cast of three adults and two children (or two small adults). The children should look identical, give or take the effects of having been fired from a cannon. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
Synopsis | Count Ferdinand Von Finkelstein introduces his Fabulous Freak Show and circus, including the not-so-strong man, the non-so-bearded lady and Mickey the Meteorite (who has the temerity to want payment for the privilege of being fired from a cannon). |
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Cube Farming by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both nominally male, but could easily be changed to female. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single set, Simple props. |
Synopsis | It is Marvin's first day at work, where Simon introduces him to his cubicle or PWE (Personal Work environment). |
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The Dancing Princesses by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The numbers are very flexible. There are three speaking princesses, but this could be reduced to 2. However, there is scope for a much larger number of (non-speaking) princesses and an equal number of dancing princes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Verse play, with some elements of panto, based on The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or The Twelve Dancing Princesses (depending on which translation of the Brothers Grimm you prefer). Several locations, but no major set requirements. |
Synopsis | A King offers the usual rewards (marriageable daughter, bits of kingdom, that sort of thing) for anyone who can discover why each of his daughters ruin a pair of shoes every night. Enter a wounded soldier and a helpful old lady to solve the mystery. |
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Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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The Dating Circus by Robin Fusco |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple-to-stage, short one-act comedy. American English. |
Synopsis | Showman and dating expert P.T. Bailey teaches the audience how to make a first date successful. He guides hapless volunteer Gary through a mock date with his glamorous assistant Veronica. But Veronica becomes more attracted to the true Gary than P.T. intended, and has her own take on how to date. |
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Dawn of Remembrance by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A nicely written single-set short with a good handle on the tragedies of war and how they affect the mind. |
Synopsis | Two soldiers in France, during World War 2, discuss what they have been through and what they miss about home, ruminating on how war has changed them forever. |
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