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| Back to the Start by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama told with reverse chronology, mainly in a single kitchen set. Contains appropriately adult language. |
| Synopsis | Jenny and Martin's relationship is charted from its acrimonious ending back to its optimistic beginning. |
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| Backstaged by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy (with appropriate adult language and themes) set on a stage before and during a performance. |
| Synopsis | An irreverent and long serving crew of set builders are becoming ever more frustrated with an indecisive director and lead actor whose continual requests for changes leads them to disrupt his big scenes. Meanwhile the men have to deal with the arrival of Fran a new recruit to the team - horror of horrors - a woman! |
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| Bad Flatitude by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Intended to be produced with one male actor playing four characters and one female actor doing the same. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short for teens with some dirty humour and a simple (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | As another flatmate leaves in a dramatic fashion, the remaining group gloomily discuss the weirdos they’ve had to put up with and wonder who’ll be next. But they haven’t considered their landlord’s plans. |
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Bad Reception by Paul Vincent
Performance by Little Eyases Theatre Co. won best play at The Golden Beaks Comedy Festival at Theatre-on-the-Steps, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, September 2007 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played by teenagers. For the purpose of showcasing, it could be performed by a cast of three (all female, but playing female and male roles) or a cast of three girls and one boy. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (easy to do in a minimalist way), contemporary setting, simple props. Comedy. (Limited use of mildly offensive language.) |
| Synopsis | Kayleigh and Lucy are put in charge of their school's reception desk for the morning. To get herself out of a fix, Kayleigh pretends to be the Headmistress when answering the phone, setting up a chain of events that spins out of control... |
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| Badly Drawn by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. There are two on-stage speaking characters, two offstage voices and four masked cartoon characters - products of the cartoonists imagination! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, intreguing, one-act play, dealing with events of a psychological nature. Single, minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Spectre has taken Saskia. Where and why, she can't be sure. As he recounts his tale of shattered dreams, stolen ideas and cursed cartoons, Saskia begins to realise the lines that he draws run parallel to her own and soon both are on a collision course to meltdown. |
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| The Bag Ladies by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three ladies somewhat beyond the first flush of youth. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. (Three old ladies, one park bench, lots of bags, one mild swearword.)
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A pause on a shopping trip with plenty of opportunity for misunderstanding. |
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| The Bag Lady by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | A bag lady, with a park bench for company, ruminates about her life as she prepares to sleep. |
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| A Bag of Swag by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | A two-handed comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A cat burglar is going about his business one dark night, with a bag of swag over his shoulder, when he is confronted by a patrolling policeman. Can the burglar smooth talk his way out of his precarious situation? Will the policeman's suspicions be confirmed? Where do the turnips come from? Delve into A Bag of Swag and find out. |
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| Baggy Trousers by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play. |
| Synopsis | There's plenty of life left in Sid, although he’s approaching his eightieth birthday. But when Melanie arrives from the Cosy Comfort Care Agency, her blinkered patronising approach forces Sid to re-live scenes from his past. What will it take for Melanie to see - and appreciate - the real man? |
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| Bags And Browning by Liz Carroll |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mary is a homeless woman known as the Bard of the South Bank for her recitations of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Browning. But someone has heard she might have a valuable manuscript, and is willing to kill for it |
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