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| Mixed Massages by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a non-speaking role - the literal butt of some of the jokes! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Intended to be played at frantic pace, so possible to run in 50 minutes! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with a single 'health spa' setting. Intended to be taken at a frantic pace, so could well be done in 50 minutes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy day in the relaxation spa, with New Girl Tina struggling to come to terms with her new job. It's all complicated by a number of clients who've arranged liaisons, or mistaken the premises for.. .some quite different establishment. It's steamy and hairy, but funny too. |
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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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| Mondo Pizzicato by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Professor Paderofsky is written male, but could be played male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act farce. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Jimmy is relying on his brother Danny for financial support while he finishes his musical degree. Danny thinks he should marry Peggy, the girl who does their cleaning, but doesn't know that Jimmy and Peggy had a one night stand last week. Danny also doesn't know that their gay friend Freddy fancies him. All these secrets collide on the same day. |
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| Monkey Business by Sue Murray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are seven humans (5M, 2F) and 2 chips (1M, 1F) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Structurally in three acts, but of one-act length. Split stage set. Contains a limited amount of very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Research into training chimps to use sign language gets an unexpected boost when a student devotes some of his work experience time to listening to what the chimps have to say. But the Doctor in charge of the research isn't so keen on really intelligent subjects... |
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| Monster by Peter Anthony Fields |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (kitchen) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | After a horrific school shooting occurs in a small Midwestern town, a Protestant minister and her troubled brother grapple over how to come to terms with the senseless tragedy. |
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| A Montage of Monet by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue - a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe. A fascinating biography that doesn't shy away from showing the artist's more negative personality traits, which makes it an interesting challenge for the actor. |
| Synopsis | Claude Monet, at 84 years old, reflects on his career struggles, the eventual success of his impressionism, and his loves and losses. |
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| Monty's Barrow by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in two acts (by which we mean it's reasonably short but divided into two sections!) for performance by kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Self-confessed serial failure Monty sets out to make his way in life, equipped only with his sole asset, a rickety wheelbarrow. He enjoys initial success in thwarting a band of robbers and thus becomes enough of a celebrity to get a job with a travelling circus. Things quickly go downhill and he leaves the circus in ruins and loses his barrow. The barrow indirectly falls into the hands of the vengeful robbers who use it in the commission of a crime. Monty finds himself implicated, on trial for his life and desperately hoping that his long-absent Guardian Angel will turn up and save him. |
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| The Moop-La Hoop-La by Fiona and David Barker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. Flexible chorus of classmates. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children. The single set is split into three areas an requires only furniture (but quite a lot of props - because it's about material culture). |
| Synopsis | Mr Trillion's company makes toys, but he's only concerned with making money, so he pushes new toys as fast as he can. Dara can't keep up with the playground crazes, and eventually helps others see there's more to play than toys. |
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| More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
| Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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| The More Things Change by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Funny one-act farce. Single living room set. |
| Synopsis | James isn't telling Joyce everything, but mostly because she won't let him get a word in edgeways between her assumptions. When he takes his leave, she has to fill in the blanks with the help of Ralph, which lands Norah in a load of trouble she doesn't deserve. |
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