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A Long Day's Journey Makes Things Right by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play (with more than a little comedic nod to Eugene O'Neill). |
Synopsis | Jamie really needs to tell his parents the truth about his frequent visits to Dr Richard before his impending marriage gets any closer. Unfortunately, his father’s vaunted psychic abilities have completely failed to pick up on this. |
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The Love Clinic by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is a voice-over, so could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (simple office), simple props. |
Synopsis | Welcome to The Love Clinic, a dating agency which will solve all your relationship problems - or so the nervous Steven hopes... |
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Marigolds by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Middle-aged couple! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hilarious fifteen-minute comedy. Simple single set. Simple props. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Harry is having trouble with his piles, and needs his wife Margaret to... take the problem in hand, so to speak. She's reluctant to use her lovely washing-up gloves for such a personal task, but he is adamant. While they struggle to... rectify... the problem, a few other things pop out that Harry had no idea about. |
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The Master Thief by Joseph A. Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Distinct age gap between the two characters. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy drama, with tension - about deceits and money. |
Synopsis | An old man has his quiet evening in his poor home disturbed, by a frightened young man pretending to come from a charity. He isn't, but the old man isn't what he seems either. |
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The Miracle Worker by Tony Benge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue for a reprobate. No set requirements (though anything to indicate a pop festival would be a bonus). Contains bad language (and good language) and descriptions of inadvisable behaviour. |
Synopsis | You can't help liking Pete Bristol, the miracle worker of the title in this breathtakingly fast moving monologue. The resourceful rogue finds himself ticketless at a pop festival - not his fault of course, his mates Badger and Wilbur let him down - and his initiative kicks in as he evades and outwits security man Dave to go from freelance toilet attendant to miracle worker. We not only learn about Pete and his deprived home life with his Nan (the best cheese and pickle doorstep maker in the South West) but are also given a vivid insight into the goings on at pop festivals. |
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The Misfortune Of Lionel Schlusselberg by Aisha Tritle & Keelia McGovern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy skit |
Synopsis | Lionel, an antisocial medical blogger, is coaxed into a blind double date as a favour to his best friend. Contrasting backgrounds, conversations, and the effect of peanuts result in a short-lived liaison between one pair. But all is not lost for Lionel. |
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The Mixer by Glyn Blakeborough |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The two main characters are of retirement age, but by no means decrepit! Two of the characters are voices on the phone, so could, conceivably, be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set (in theory a domestic kitchen, but could easily be done in a 'black box' presentation). Walks a careful line of bittersweet tragic-comedy. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Peter and Edna have been waiting for three weeks for their bins to be emptied. Peter helps old Mrs Thorburn by putting her rubbish into the correct bins for collection, but it turns out he's been getting it wrong, and Mrs Thorburn is under threat of legal action... |
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Modern Santa by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst the Chairman and Mr. McCrumm are written male, the author has no objection to their gender being reassigned. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute skit. No specific set requirements, and no requirement for movement. (Could be done as a party-piece or front-of-curtain during a set change). Contains mild swearing and adult humour. |
Synopsis | Santa appears before a committee vetting his application for seasonal work. (They suggest that his contract needs additional clauses.) |
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My Friend Ed by John Passadino |
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 offstage (female) voice. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script suggests the use of two songs for Karaoke! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short comedy in a single set. (Written for a living room with practical doors, but the set could be simplified to just furniture.) American English. |
Synopsis | Linda really wishes her husband John would change his ways. At least she thinks so, right up to the moment when he does change his ways, thanks to his disturbing new friend Ed. Just what have the two men been up to? |
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Neighbourhood Watch by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act light comedy. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | We are privy to the goings on at the Smeaton Neighbourhood Watch Committee at the home of Mrs Wilson-Smythe.The members of the Committee are upstanding and influential citizens who are all victims of a recent spate of burglaries in their prosperous, previously crime-free village. Their local police officer joins the meeting to address their concerns and ascertain the extent of their losses so as to begin investigation. As they recount their losses we discover not only the monetary value but also the touching sentimental value each piece has. But, of course, there is a twist... |
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