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Ripping Off Angels by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!) |
Synopsis | The Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels! |
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Scripted by Brenna McBride |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
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Securing the Sponsor by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Leonard and the director have masculine names, any of the characters could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | For many shows, securing a sponsor to help finance the production is a crucial task. It doesn't always go as well as this... |
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Set to and Build by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy during which parts of the set are built on-stage - sort of. |
Synopsis | An AmDram crew meets ahead of the new show to build the set. Arguments over creative vision versus available materials, colours and building techniques, not to mention accidents, strain relations. |
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Sword Game by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch on a single (office) set. |
Synopsis | Grace's agent Tony got her a role on the TV series Sword Game, but she’s not happy, despite the awards that have come her way. She wants something that will stretch her a little more, but Tony thinks she needs pushing... |
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Tabbed by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The script is about a group performing a British Pantomime, therefore Widow Twankey is intended to be played by a man, and Aladdin by a young woman. The chorus is optional (the chorus part could probably be doubled by a couple of the principals.) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy, set in the middle of a (disastrous) pantomime performance. |
Synopsis | It's Panto time again for the Witherington Over Mired Brook Amateur Theatrical Society (WOMBATS), but things aren't going well... Aladdin's had a nasty accident and had to be replaced at short notice, the script is illegible, the stage crew are in revolt and the lights and curtain aren't behaving themselves either. Can Widow Twankey hold things together? |
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The Talky Bits by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Many of the characters are written with a specific gender, but most can be changed! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of ten comedy sketches requiring little in the way of set or props (the most complex sketch requires a table, chairs and a few pieces of paper.) Most could be run front-of curtain. |
Synopsis | Ten comedy sketches with a theatrical theme, designed to be interspersed between other material in a drama and dance showcase. The sketches cover the theatrical process from pitching a show concept through to first night nerves. Most of the sketches are available individually. This collection is available at a discount to the sum of the individual prices. |
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Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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There's One in Every Show by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a young boy, the rest are adults (mainly over-the-top thespians). |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing. |
Synopsis | For years Sheldon has held together his troupe of actors with the promise of a show, but now his accountant has signed up a producer, who's found a backer and they're going to have to perform at last. But the script is bad - worse than the actors themselves - and they have the Sponsor's idiot son involved too... |
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Thesps by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Nucleus of 10 principals plus company of singers. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for the 13 Gilbert and Sullivan songs used in the script are supplied with the Producer's Copy. |
Style | Full-length comedy play, using the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. The settings are a drama group's rehearsal room and the stage. |
Synopsis | The thespians of The Off The Wall Theatre Company are trying to stage Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinnafore. The chairman has hired-in Caroline, a professional director, to help them. Unfortunately, Barney, one of the company, has had a steamy affair with the director in the past. Barney wants to escape, whilst Caroline wants to resume where they left off. Of course, the rest of the company step in to help Barney out of his hole - unfortunately, their idea of help seems to involve even more digging! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Midi files of songs from the show
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