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Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov.
SynopsisA family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it?
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Dinner at Luigi's by Brian Coyle
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 14 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with a single (restaurant) setting.
SynopsisA mother and her two grown-up children get together for a celebration meal. As dinner is served, the dynamics of their dysfunctional relationship are uncovered and family secrets revealed for the first time. The meal descends into deeper and deeper water.
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Do You Remember? by Frances Bartram
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!] In the original performances, it ran between 25 & 30 minutes.
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama, with an informal set - furniture and a few props.
SynopsisIn this poignant examination of the effects of dementia we see Doris, who is not as young as she used to be, descend into a confused world through the eyes of her granddaughter Anna as they relive past events.
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Don't Touch the King by Anna Russon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with a single (living room) setting.
SynopsisRecovering from psychiatric difficulties, Danny finds solace in playing chess with his friend Aiden. As the game progresses, it becomes clear that Aiden is not the person Danny thought he was.
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The Donor by Jamesine Cundell Walker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again).
SynopsisThe Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request.
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The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleDramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set.
SynopsisA middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit.
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Dutch Courage by Elizabeth Bell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA poignant monologue with a single (bedroom) setting.
SynopsisMaggie is preparing to leave for Holland where her husband Geoff, at his own request, will enter a euthanasia clinic. Her feelings and emotions bubble under the surface and gather tension as the transport arrives.
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End of the Road Pub - a play about Hell by David Webb
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as Australians, though there is no reason that they couldn't come from other places.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute play with a Christian perspective on the riskier areas of the afterlife. (Single public bar setting, simple props.)
SynopsisMarty and Jim stagger into a pub after a nasty car crash. They have a drink to steady their nerves but soon notice something strange about the pub. It turns out that crash was nastier than they thought and they've got their own lock-in, forever!
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Extra Cream by Michael Pearcy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 16 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short, two-handed play, with a simple setting.
SynopsisHousewife Lillian has a milkman Steve - who has called to respond to the note she left for him. In an intriguing interplay between the two, the contents of the note are gradually revealed, as sexual tension ebbs to and fro across the kitchen table.
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Eye Phone 64 by John Harper
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act futuristic drama with a single (studio apartment) set.
SynopsisIn the not too distant future, Nokia lives with his android butler. A mobile phone salesman arrives to update Nokia's phone - with devastating results.
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