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We Have To Talk by Don Lowry
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain.
SynopsisThree relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons.
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Whatta Nut! by Ethan Bortman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 14 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short, light comedy play
SynopsisThe first and only rehearsal for a performed reading of a play entitled ‘The Nut’ is being held just a few hours before the performance. Hazel, the playwright, has invited the actors to her house to rehearse. The rehearsal does not go smoothly.
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White Knight by P. B. Stenson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn engaging horror drama which playfully explores the theme of gender-based assumptions. Some nicely written dialogue with an edge of dark comedy.
SynopsisAsh is walking home from the pub when he passes a woman, Christina, sitting alone. He stops to check she is alright, but his assumptions about her are way off.
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Whose Baby? by John Collings
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 14 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short comedy with a single (hospital waiting room) setting. Adult themes.
SynopsisThree pregnant women from very different backgrounds have come for a routine check-up. As they wait to be seen, they discuss their various experiences whilst conceiving. One of them goes into labour, with shocking results.
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Why Homo Erectus Died Out by Tony Best
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Optional gender for the Presenter role
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act comedy play, with a single simple setting.
SynopsisProfessor Anthony presents his imaginative theory as to why Homo-Erectus died out, as we watch the interaction between male and female played out in mime - and Ugs - before our very eyes.
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The Woofer and The Flagger by Ethan Bortman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 13 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy with a single (market stall) setting.
SynopsisTourist, Larry comes across a simple market stall offering a free massage with purchases of bottles and sprays of various herbal products. As Maggie starts his massage he learns about her unconventional lifestyle.
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The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 14 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.)
SynopsisA routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number.
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You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.)
SynopsisTeri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride.
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You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional!
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisSir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting.
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You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop.
SynopsisKevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day.
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