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Searching by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception area, so little more than a coffee table and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | David is going to be on a new television show where he picks from a selection of six women and dates them to determine his match. Trouble is, he seems to be scaring them off before the show even starts... |
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Self Centre by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act prose monologue. |
Synopsis | As she deals with a series of customers, Vivi, a receptionist at a new age health centre, reflects on the circumstances that brought her here and the loss of her brother. |
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Sharing 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 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single interior set. Furniture includes a collapsing chair (great fun for the set designer!) |
Synopsis | Chris the suave estate agent thinks he's on to a good thing when wet and weedy Jake brings the gorgeous Holly in to buy a house. They're clearly not suited, and he makes his move to split them up. Jake is paired off with Chris's soon-to-be ex-wife and leaves, but then Holly has some surprising revelations for Chris. |
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Someday I'll Find You by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Main two characters in late middle age |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy set in the office or waiting room of a retirement village in America. |
Synopsis | Jack and Helen meet by chance at a retirement village some forty years after he abandoned her for her best friend. They discuss what has happened to them in the intervening forty years and whilst nothing is resolved, who knows what their future will be? |
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Something To Talk About by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set around a coffee shop table. |
Synopsis | When three middle-aged friends meet up for coffee and a natter, the confessions and revelations come thick and fast. They soon find, to amusement all around, that they have more in common than they realised. |
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Sponge Cake And Leopard Skin by Jane Hilliard |
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 | A fifteen minute comedy monologue |
Synopsis | A middle aged woman relates a somewhat stale, routine marriage and an exciting illicit adventure only to discover her husband’s amazing secret life which breathes new life into their life together. |
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Table For One by Sydney Weiss |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy on a single restaurant set. US English. |
Synopsis | Daniel eats at the same restaurant every day of his life. He likes the food, but he likes the waitress even more. He keeps getting roped into sitting with stuffy Mike and crazy Susan, when all he wants is a second alone with Meg. Will Daniel ever be able to marry Meg, or will the chaotic ambiance of the diner render this task impossible? |
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Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours! by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults. A range of ages! |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | It's committee night and the Chairman has been asked to introduce a surprise speaker. Little does he know what a surprise she'll be! |
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Too Hot to Handle by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One of the characters sings a snatch from a 1970s pop song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A strong short with a good balance of comedy and pathos. Two well-written characters with a believably messy friendship. Would make a fun challenge for a pair of actresses. |
Synopsis | It's summer 1976 and Britain is roasting. Long-term friends Stella and Avril are now in their 40s and much divorced, but while Stella seems to have settled for the single life, Avril enthusiastically announces yet another engagement. |
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Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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