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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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| Change Of Plan by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | On her first visit to the house she has unexpectedly inherited from her late uncle Bill, Merina and husband Randall are shocked to find uncle Bill’s housekeeper Cynthia in residence along with a miscellany of oddball characters. |
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| Changes by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-handed comedy sketch. Single simple set (table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | James arrives back from work to discover that his home has suddenly succumbed to an attack of minimalism! |
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Changes Trilogy by Tony Domaille
Award winning. 'A Single Moment' - Runner up best original play, Avon One Act Play Festival 2015. 'Me & You.' Winner of the Avon Short Play Festival Competition 2020, as well as awards for best director, best actor, best actress and supporting actor |
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| Changing Booms by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Nick, the presenter, is written male, but need not be so. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Damian Trasler.) |
| Synopsis | The TV makeover show makes over Doris and Charlie's house! |
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| Changing Rooms by Jackie Carreira |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy with a single, simple (department store changing rooms) setting. |
| Synopsis | Bride-to-be Sophia and her prospective mother-in-law Rosa are having difficulty choosing a mutually acceptable wedding gown. Meanwhile, Jo is trying to find a pair of Jeans to fit, Gemma is struggling with a top and her boyfriend Sam is wondering why he's spending so long waiting outside the cubicles. Fortunately, there's Maggie, the ever-smiling shop assistant, always on hand to offer some very pointed advice. |
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| A Chaotic Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act verse play, rearranging Dickens. |
| Synopsis | 'A Christmas Carol' is given a huge twist to show Scrooge as a determined do-gooder, despite the machinations of wicked embezzler Bob Cratchit and the forlorn ghost of grasping Jacob Marley, plus assorted spirits. |
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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott
Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up. |
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| Charlie's Last Lap by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters written male, but Charlie, the ventriloquist's dummy, could be played by a girl dressed as a boy. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set - a chair.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A ventriloquist settles down to watch Match of the Day, accompanied, as usual, by his dummy. |
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| Charmed I'm Sure by Kate Phimy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. An eighty-year-old lady and her carer (a young lady in her twenties). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play - light comedy but with plenty of opportunity to develop character. Single set (minimal indications of an old lady's living room). |
| Synopsis | Jess has called in on Winifred to see how she's getting on and show off her engagement ring. Winifred is pleased, as Jess is a better carer than that awful Vera... They talk about life, the future and, of course, Winifred's pet, Basil. |
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