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Closure by Robert Scott People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Luke's birthday party is a lonely affair - there's just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they're involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. |
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Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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The Comedy of Errors [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Speaking roles - 4M, 4F, 8 either, plus at least 3 non-speaking townspeople. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors', with every word remaining Shakespeare's. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Antipholus of Syracuse has come to Ephesus with his servant, Dromio. Unknown to them, their identical twin brothers, also called Antipholus and Dromio, have been living in Ephesus for many years. There is a heap of comic confusion until their true identities are at last revealed. |
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The Connection by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Not so much a whodunnit as a 'what on earth is going on'? As it morphs from a comedy of mistaken identity to thriller and back. Single (simple office) set. |
Synopsis | Five strangers, with five very different problems, are called to a certain office to meet Mr Hargreaves... But he isn't there! Is there a more sinister reason for them being locked in together? Can they find out what connects them? |
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Corner's Last Case by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy whodunnit in two short acts. (In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play.) Three remarkably similar office sets. |
Synopsis | The legendary, brilliant Inspector Corner is not only up against the dastardly Butcher of Baker Street but also has to contend with his superior the mysterious Superintendent Marsha Mallow. This jolly ripping yarn sees the Inspector solve more than just the murder of Sir Newell Post as he comes up against the Russian Mafia in the shape of the Sodov brothers (one of whom is female). |
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The Coven's Convention by Stephen Mercer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | The staid and unchanging routine of the bucolic village's committee, chaired by the fearsome Wilhemina, is brought suddenly to life as new member Andrew suggests a fund raising pop concert. As the horrified Wilhemina starts to lose her grip on the committee, the meeting descends into startling revelations and recriminations. |
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Crackerjoke Writer by Paul Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with plenty of acting challenges. A black comedy about comedians who are just not funny. Single set (with no specific set requirements) and simple props. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | There is a comedy pit, where unfunny comedians are held captive. That's where Ade finds himself, despite thinking that he's the next big thing in comedy. He has one chance to break out with a new act and it depends on deadbeat failure, Bunny. |
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The Cruise by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act poignant comedy with a single (sewing factory) set. |
Synopsis | Recently widowed Vera is retiring after a lifetime of work at the same factory and has mixed feelings about her future. Her colleagues are supportive as she reminisces about her past but there is a final shock for them that no-one expected. |
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The Crying Dame by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single 'committee room' set. |
Synopsis | A regular committee meeting of the Southern Sudbury-Regis Drama Club is rudely interrupted by one of the society members who has some strong ideas about the next pantomime. Little do they know just how far he is prepared to go! |
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Custard and Disinfectant by Jim Pinnock Performance by Carbost Community Drama came overall second at the Skye Division One Act Drama Festival, 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Murder mystery with a darkly comic edge. Includes swearing. |
Synopsis | Albert's a terror in the old folks' home, making improper suggestions and using bad language. But when he's found dead with a dagger in his chest and sleeping pills under his chair, the problem isn't whodunit, but who DIDN'T... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Custard and Disinfectant' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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