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| Make This Go Away by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a single domestic setting |
| Synopsis | When a stranger turns up, breaking into his house in the middle of the night, Fred pulls out his gun to defend his wife and property, but if the stranger is a locksmith sent by the bank... and if the house has been foreclosed, what then? And what does Fred’s wife, Alice, have to do with it all? |
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| Marigolds by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Middle-aged couple! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious fifteen-minute comedy. Simple single set. Simple props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Harry is having trouble with his piles, and needs his wife Margaret to... take the problem in hand, so to speak. She's reluctant to use her lovely washing-up gloves for such a personal task, but he is adamant. While they struggle to... rectify... the problem, a few other things pop out that Harry had no idea about. |
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| A Matter of Health and Safety [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a simple single set in a marquee at the village fete. |
| Synopsis | Officious Village fete organiser Tom discusses health and safety issues with his assistant Nigel but becomes increasingly concerned for his own health and safety. |
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| The Mayor's Christmas Masquerade by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play based on Mary E. Wilkins's The Christmas Masquerade |
| Synopsis | The Mayor is throwing a masquerade party for the children of the town at Christmas, and a new Costumer has provided costumes for all the children. However, when the party is over, the costumes won’t come off. The Costumer has demands to make of the Mayor, or the kids stay Princesses forever. |
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| The Miracle Worker by Tony Benge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue for a reprobate. No set requirements (though anything to indicate a pop festival would be a bonus). Contains bad language (and good language) and descriptions of inadvisable behaviour. |
| Synopsis | You can't help liking Pete Bristol, the miracle worker of the title in this breathtakingly fast moving monologue. The resourceful rogue finds himself ticketless at a pop festival - not his fault of course, his mates Badger and Wilbur let him down - and his initiative kicks in as he evades and outwits security man Dave to go from freelance toilet attendant to miracle worker. We not only learn about Pete and his deprived home life with his Nan (the best cheese and pickle doorstep maker in the South West) but are also given a vivid insight into the goings on at pop festivals. |
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| Miriam Waits by Amanda Giles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Essentially a monologue, but with station Tannoy announcements (which could be played live or recorded) |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short well-written monologue with some interesting reflections on family relationships. |
| Synopsis | As she waits at a railway station, Miriam recounts her relationship with her father over his final years. |
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| Modern Santa by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst the Chairman and Mr. McCrumm are written male, the author has no objection to their gender being reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute skit. No specific set requirements, and no requirement for movement. (Could be done as a party-piece or front-of-curtain during a set change). Contains mild swearing and adult humour. |
| Synopsis | Santa appears before a committee vetting his application for seasonal work. (They suggest that his contract needs additional clauses.) |
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| More Than Friends by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Widow June is visited by her late husband’s sister Hazel, who lost contact with her brother many years ago. Now homeless due to her gambling addiction, Hazel is looking for help. However, June’s revelations come as a shock. |
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| Moscow, Scotland by Paul Shaw Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two principal characters and four (unspeaking) revolutionaries. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set in an apartment. |
| Synopsis | Karl, the Mayor of an unnamed European city, has invited Yuro, the building's handyman, up to his penthouse as the revolution rages outside. Karl has much to say before he is taken away, but he is also keen to hear from Yuro. |
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| Mr. Willoughby by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch (simple set, simple props) featuring a switchback conversation and corn circles! |
| Synopsis | An Alien Abductee is interviewed by a sceptical journalist, providing some surprising answers. |
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