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| Open Evening by David Dunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking parts and one unconscious cameo! Gender entirely flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Three teens are getting ready for their vampire school open evening. Though they only have to get the drinks area ready, they've had a good look around and are ready to discuss all the other departments. Something tells me this is a night school... |
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| Open the Book by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The demons' lines are split between three characters, but only to indicate there are several demons. They could be shared amongst as many demons as you have available. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama - or possibly a modern melodrama - for youth theatre. Two locations, but no set required. (British English - including slang for 'cigarette'.) |
| Synopsis | The seven deadly sins are represented in the characters of the members of a theatre company rehearsing 'Faust'. Director Matt is the worst offender and is drawn into the grasp of Lucifer by a group of demons. |
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| Opening Doors by Keith Badham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Youth theatre drama played on an empty stage with one prop (a free standing door). An ensemble piece, with cast members taking multiple roles. |
| Synopsis | As the doorkeepers open the door we experience cradle to grave aspects of the characters' lives. |
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| The Order of the Pink Pantyhose by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An old-fashioned 'play' on manners and a light-hearted spoof of the traditional murder mystery. |
| Synopsis | Four elderly women-a fidgety hostess, her grumpy cousin, a southern belle, and a British cynic--sit down for afternoon tea. One is a murderer in disguise, one a detective in disguise, one a humanitarian worker in disguise, and one an innocent bystander (also in disguise). Conversation soon turns from the state of the weather to the untimely death of Great-Aunt Charlotte Robinson (the undercover leader of band of pantyhose thieves). And before you can say 'pink pantyhose,' an innocent tea party has turned into a dangerous (if slightly silly) game of 'who dun it?' |
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| Oscar's Adventure by Patricia Munene |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are animals from south-west Africa. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children set amidst Namibian wildlife! |
| Synopsis | Oscar is a Cheetah cub, living in a refuge, but he dreams of leaving and finding his mother. Helped to escape, he meets two other cubs and their mother, but not his own family. They adopt him and teach him to be wild, but Oscar still has some things to teach them. |
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| Othello In Hell by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play based on the Shakespeare classic. |
| Synopsis | Trapped in an invisible prison, the spirit of Othello is tormented by his own memories and visions of those he has known in life. He seems doomed to repeat a cycle of regret and blame and rage, even when granted Desdemona’s forgiveness. |
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| The Other Side by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for youth theatre, a story, but with a strong moral core. |
| Synopsis | Ruth is visiting an Art Gallery as part of the school field trip, when she sees a picture of a cabin that looks familiar. She falls into the painting and meets Narg, who takes her back to something she doesn't want to remember. |
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| Our Last Respects by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a graveyard.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | Two women with what ammounts to not quite a graveside eulogy for their deceased friend. |
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| Out Of Print 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 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-hander drama with a simple living room set. |
| Synopsis | Erica Brightman was once a famous children’s author, and her books, The Adventures of the Lucky Sevens, once graced library shelves across the country. Now that her books are out of print, she is shown the door by suspicious librarians, and takes sanctuary with her imaginary young listeners. But all is not lost. Her last surviving fan, Colin Chadwell, is busy writing her a letter that she will never forget. |
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| Out of the Trees by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two on-stage chracters and two off (who might be recordings). All the characters are written male, but, let's face it, they are all trees. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play with no requirements for set and props. |
| Synopsis | Frank and Walt are a couple of trees who share tales of their conquests and pass the time bantering about tree life. They like to pick on the weeping willow on the edge of the forest, but will be friends to the end. Probably. |
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