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| The Knock by Elisabeth Marrion |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue. |
| Synopsis | Alma Zenick moved from Germany to England in the 1870s to work as a furrier. Decades later, in the first year of World War One, she awaits news of her sixth son. The other five have died in action, and she dreads receiving bad news about her last boy. |
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| Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) |
| Synopsis | Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. |
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Last Duchess by Iris Winston
Won first prize in the Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short stage adaptation of Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess. |
| Synopsis | The spirit of a murdered wife steps from her portrait to try and warn the next fiancée of the fate that awaits her. |
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| Last of the Meagans by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their young adult son. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set. Minimal props. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | A father argues with his remaining son after the funeral of his youngest son, a victim of the Iraq war. Family revelations follow harsh words and it's left to Mom to hold the family together. |
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| The Last Thing On His Mind by Mike Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two elderly men and a cameo female nurse. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute (or so) play. Single set - a couple of chairs and a table to indicate the terrace of a retirement home. A wonderful piece of writing which, very indirectly, says a lot about the characters. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sitting in the sun outside his nursing home, Mr James is consumed by the memory of sex with a woman he can't remember the name of. His companion wishes he would change the subject, but Mr James chases the thought around and around. |
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| Late Again by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a single (sitting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Angela is annoyed when husband Richard is constantly late home from work. This time though it is a motorway pile-up which has detained him. Angela is devastated when a stranger comes to call for Richard. |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play |
| Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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| The Law is an Ass by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written as male, but the judge could easily be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single courtroom set. |
| Synopsis | Old Lag Eddie Larsen is up in front of the beak again. Caught red handed climbing out of a shop window with a bag of swag, it looks like he's going down. But in a stroke of brilliance he defends himself with his own personal philosophy, making a believer out of the judge and earning himself a most unusual sentence. |
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Legion by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the Pensive Federation Theatre Company's 2016 Collective Project Playwriting Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script includes one moment where characters dance, and the producer's copy suggests a song to be played at this point. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch, suitable for a young adult company or youth theatre, with a single (railway platform) setting. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Thrown off the train for rowdy behaviour, a group of young friends are joined by a knowledgeable stranger who seems to be trying to 'recruit' them for an unknown purpose. |
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| Let Me Finish! by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama. |
| Synopsis | Liz is escorting her elderly father home after a hospital appointment. A debate about what to have for lunch turns into a shocking revelation about the family history. |
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