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The First Born by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monologue set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | A woman reflects on her life and that of her child. |
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The Fisherman by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A lengthy monologue with no set required. |
Synopsis | The life of an East Coast fisherman, before and after the Second World War, is related in an evocative monologue. |
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The Five Stages Of Grief by Danielle Vanasse Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama with several simple settings. |
Synopsis | Lori experiences the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) after her father, Nathan, dies in a fire in his office building She is left with her mother Julie and her brother Ryan as they work together as a family to grieve and accept Nathan's death. |
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The Florist by Iris Winston Winner of the Ottawa Little Theatre national playwriting competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. Single set (florist's shop). |
Synopsis | George Bernard Shaw drops into a Flower shop run by a lady called Liza and they talk of her old friends, and the life she has led. |
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For The Greater Good by Aviva Philipp-Muller Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play. |
Synopsis | Charles and Jonah share their memories of a single day, a day they experienced in very different ways, though at the end they connected. A powerful piece about the Holocaust. |
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The Game by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, highlighting relationships and friendships. |
Synopsis | In different social circles at school, Gem and Katy are horrified to discover that their parents are dating. They resolve to break the couple up, but don’t seem to anticipate the results of having to work together on the project. |
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The Generation Gap by Sheena Weitzel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play. |
Synopsis | Rachael's mum and dad are going out, leaving her to look after Grandad. She's not happy about that, or much else, but Grandad knows more than she thinks and they end up sorting a good deal out between them. |
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Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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The Gloves Are Off by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
Synopsis | What looks like marital bliss to the outside world is a facade to a hidden world of domestic violence, one that Jack and Natalie live with every day. |
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Going Digital by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue set in an armchair surrounded by remote controls. |
Synopsis | Patricia, in her eighties, struggles to adapt to the increasingly complex technology which threatens to leave her generation behind. |
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