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| Do You Mind by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in the stalls of a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As the audience settle down in the auditorium to watch a play they find that their lives are all inter-connected in some way This is welcome to some but causes embarrassing difficulties for others. |
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| Does My Bum Look Big In This? by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adult comedy set at a café table. Australian settings but with opportunities for customising to other locations. |
| Synopsis | Long-time Aussie friends Donna, Janice and Sharon meet for coffee, prior to Janice flying off to attend her sister's wedding. Their get together is suddenly interrupted with news that the wedding has been called off. |
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The Dominatrix Solution by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller Long-listed for 2017 Pint-Sized Plays Writing Competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with adult themes |
| Synopsis | George has writer’s block, and resorts to an unconventional solution. He recruits hapless Kim and Laura who discover what his little problem is and in a surprise final twist solve a much bigger problem for him as well. |
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| A Double Date with Uncle Martin by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy (possibly a boulevard farce) set in a restaurant. (Written in American English.) |
| Synopsis | Chris has lost track of the day, and accidentally lined up two dates on the same night, in the same restaurant. Can they really both be related to Martin Scorsese? |
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| Elephants by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single New York apartment set (with a strongly-themed taste in decoration - see title for details!) Contains swearing (and also affection). First published Sept 2011, revised edition Nov 2017. |
| Synopsis | A strange birthday party reveals hidden love... |
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| End of the Ban by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-hour comedy set in 1980s England. |
| Synopsis | It is 1987. Coal miner Les Varley and his family are typical of the many mining families of North Nottinghamshire. Les and his wife Rita's slow drift apart is accelerated by conflicts over their daughter's sex life and their son's criminal activities. Then comes the news that Les is trapped in an underground roof fall. His family, the neighbours and the whole village can only wait. |
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| Erica and Me by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Only four of the characters are called Erica. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious one-act farce. Single set (ideally with two practical doors, but could be staged without). Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | To impress his boss, who likes employees to be family men, the single, nerdy Simon hires an escort to pretend to be his girlfriend. Things spiral out of control when three women turn up, all (possibly) the Erica he's expecting... |
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| Everything's Coming Up Roses by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A romantic comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Hayfever sufferer Rose has been advised to relieve her work stress by sitting and smelling the roses. Her visit to the park does little to relieve her stress until she meets gardener Brad and romance blooms. |
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| Extended Relations by Eric Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters ages are especially relevant. |
| Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce-style comedy, in two acts, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Hillary has tracked down her birth Mother and has arranged a meeting - after six months of phone calls. Unfortunately for her, her adoptive Mother doesn't take the hint and comes round to visit on the same day. It doesn't help matters when her newly-discovered birth Dad drops by too! |
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Falling Apart by Peter Harrison
2007. Sale One-Act play festival. Joint winner for Best Original Play under original title of The Lift. Production by Altrincham Garrick. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is an off-stage voice, but since he converses with the other characters it is assumed that this should be done live. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single very simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Upon leaving their solicitor's office having arranged their divorce settlement Amanda and Andrew find themselves trapped between floors in the lift. The recriminations around their marital problems continue until the arrival of the lift attendant who manages not only to repair the lift but also their marriage, even though he is not all that he seems. |
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