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Emporium 2 by Bob Tucker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFifteen-minute comedy play, single (simple) set, simple props.
SynopsisThe Emporium has been broken into overnight (after the staff closed the shop at 5:37 the previous evening) and P.C. Bromley is sent to investigate. Ms. Dressoir, the shop owner, has some specific ideas about how the investigation should continue and how P.C. Bromley should stay away from her daughter Michelle. (Set in the same establishment as 'Emporium', so could be played stand-alone or as a sequel.)
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Eva of the Golden Hair by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short stage adaptation of Saki's The East Wing.
SynopsisSocialite Lucien Wattleskeat and Major Boventry, after much deliberation, make heroic efforts to save Eva of the Golden Hair from the blazing East Wing of Lady Gramplain's manor house.
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Everything's Coming Up Roses by Cheryl Barrett
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.
StyleA romantic comedy sketch.
SynopsisHayfever sufferer Rose has been advised to relieve her work stress by sitting and smelling the roses. Her visit to the park does little to relieve her stress until she meets gardener Brad and romance blooms.
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Extra Time by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters could be female.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act play, with a simple set.
SynopsisA student is into the last couple of minutes of his exam time when the new invigilator takes over. Despite exam conditions, the student seems determined to talk, and even test the invigilator on his mathematical skills.
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The Fall Guy by Paul Mathews
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are all male, it would be easy to adapt for an all-female cast.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fifteen minute play (nominally in two acts!), a single dressing room set.
SynopsisTwo ageing thespians compete to inveigle the assistance of the newcomer in disabling the other. When push comes to shove, however, they find it's easier to put their differences aside and close ranks against him.
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Final Motions by Jamie Hope
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed.
Run TimeAround 13 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.)
SynopsisDoctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure.
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For The Greater Good by Aviva Philipp-Muller
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 14 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act play.
SynopsisCharles 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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Forty-Two by Amanda Giles
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The voice of the App could be recorded or played live. The angels are written male, but since they are angels this scarcely matters.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy play for a couple of pieces of furniture, four actors and the gentle voice of a phone app. (British English, using 'lounge' for 'living room' and including slang for a cigarette which might confuse speakers of other varieties of English.)
SynopsisJemima has just woken up from her meditation cd session to find three strange men in her living room. Well, not men, they're angels, summoned by the cd she has just listened to. They have answers for Jemima, but she won’t like them...
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Freya's Necklace by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the 'Time For Something New' playwriting festival 2018 at the Bread & Roses Theatre, London.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA comedy sketch with a single (charity shop) setting.
SynopsisJust a normal day in a charity shop? Probably, until Freya the Norse Goddess of Love and War enters on a bit of a mission.
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Friendly Bombs by Nicolas Ridley
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA comedy short on a single (office) set.
SynopsisThe last standing politician (after a wave of scandals and resignations) is not really geared up for a nuclear standoff, as he’s lost the codes. He must find a way out before the general takes over at midnight and fires both the UK’s missiles.
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