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| The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous. |
| Synopsis | In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons. |
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| Ageing Disgracefully by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set at a Post Office counter. |
| Synopsis | Stella is manning the Post Office counter by herself, when a known awkward customer arrives. |
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| AKA Charlie by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A split-set one act play. |
| Synopsis | Veronica has plenty to cope with in her job as Dental Assistant, but when her jailbird brother Charlie asked for a place to stay, she can't refuse him. Sadly for Veronica, Charlie can't help using the Dental Practice as a useful place to run a few cons and build himself some stake money.
This script can tie in with another by the same author - Switched - but both work perfectly well as a stand alone pieces. |
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| Albert by Janice Sampson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] May be staged with an interval. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy drama. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Contains swearing (and a coffin). |
| Synopsis | Before flying out to Sacramento to visit his ailing brother, Albert leaves a recording of a few confessions in case something happens to him. There has been a plane crash, and Albert's valedictory address is watched by his grieving son, daughter and sister, who learn a few surprising things, but are in for an even bigger surprise... |
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| Albert and His Women by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The youngest character is aged 52. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. Contains one mild swearword (the play, not the set). |
| Synopsis | Albert's doing his best to set his 52 year old son Tom up with a female friend. Tom thinks it's to compensate for his lack of ability with women, since he never knew his mother, but actually Albert has other motives... |
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| Albert and More Women by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (London flat) set. (This uses the same characters and setting as 'Albert and His Women', but functions as an intependent play - thus they could be used together or separately.) Contains minor swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert and his son Tom continue their search for women - Tom by taking Albert's tips and Albert by getting Tom out of the flat. But tonight they both get much more than they bargained for! |
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| Albert in the 21st Century by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway). |
| Synopsis | You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom
At a zoo, for a lion, was chow
Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence
Saying things like that don't happen now! |
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Alessandro - Renaissance Don Juan by Nicholas Conti
Finalist in the 'Dawn:-Lights Up' contest, Cuneen Arts Center. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Narrator is intended to double as The Count. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act romp set in 1682. Written in a style somewhere between Melodrama and Restoration Comedy! (American English.) |
| Synopsis | The tale of Alessandro Stradella, musical lover. (That's musical lover as in 'musician and lothario', not as in 'fan of Rogers and Hammerstein'.) His affair with his pupil, Contessa Maria Cortese, sparks the wrath of her husband - just one of the enraged cuckolds Alessandro has left in his wake. |
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| The Alf Factor by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. 3 characters are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch combining a Viking era setting with a satire on reality TV. |
| Synopsis | Alfred is trying to rally the Saxons to move against the Vikings. Unfortunately for him, they’ve heard a story about the cakes, and they’re not impressed. |
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