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| A Brush with Love by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch for a table, two chairs and a couple of actors. |
| Synopsis | George, a test tube brush salesman, finds his perfect partner. |
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| Bubonic Butter by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in the management suite of a dairy products company. |
| Synopsis | A boardoom discussion about a name for a new product in the Dairy Delights range. |
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| Budget Airlines by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short in-flight comedy sketch with a minimal set - just a couple of chairs to indicate the aisle of an aircraft. |
| Synopsis | When flying with a budget airline it is always a good idea to read the small print to understand exactly what you get for your money - and what is extra... |
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| Bunkers by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, there is a party going on in one corner of the set, into which extras could be added. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single set (indicative of a newspaper office). Written as a verbal comedy, but since one of the characters is accident-prone there is plenty of opportunity for development of a physical side. |
| Synopsis | Delphine has arranged a job at the newspaper where she works for her accident-prone flat-mate, Sally. Now the job of Foreign Correspondent is up for grabs and Sally has applied! Here comes Armageddon! |
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| The Business Meeting by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two motivated high flyers plan their strategies in a business meeting with a twist. |
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| Busted by Kev Salter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on a single police station set. |
| Synopsis | You'd think working in a rural outback police station would be boring, but with a serial thief on the loose, these three cops get themselves mixed up in all sorts of trouble. Plus, their boiler's broken. |
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| The Butcher by Terry Adlam |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters described as one male and one female. Could be played by 2M or 2F with minor modifications. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic sketch, madcap style (think Monty Python), two characters simple set and props. |
| Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy beef from a crazy butcher. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
| Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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| The Cabbage Consortium by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single pub setting. |
| Synopsis | A disparate group of pub regulars join forces to develop Harry’s sure fire money making scheme involving the cabbage futures market. Things go well until the Russian Mafia get wind of the machinations and the consortium find themselves in difficulties with the gangsters. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Cabbage Consortium' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Camelot - The Knights of the Square Table by Richard Coleman
Performance by Hyde Little Theatre won the Greater Manchester Youth One Act Festival, 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Characters include various knights (one of whom is definitely female, and others who could well be) and a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic compilation of Camelot characters in a rhyming romp round the realm. |
| Synopsis | Camelot is under attack from the Black Knight - not only that, there's the dietary requirements of a dragon to take into consideration. |
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