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Bill, Emmie and the Queen of Tonga by Philippa Roberts |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are two adults plus one with a playing age of late teens to twenty and one with a playing age of a younger teenager. (Could be done by a mixed company of adults and younger actors or by a youth theatre company.) |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play in which a small piece of real history illuminates a slice of family life. Single (simple domestic) set. |
Synopsis | A couple have traveled from Tonga to see their own queen come to England, and to make sure that their niece and nephew watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second on TV while their parents are in London. Unfortunately they are much more interested in the Tongan queen than in Elizabeth. |
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Billy Loves Brenda by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Billy has just got a romantic tattoo. There's only one problem - it doesn't quite match his circumstances. |
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Blatant Disruptions by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst six of the characters are written male, they are representations of famous archetypes and there's no barrier to them being portrayed by women wearing fake beards (or other appropriate indicators of character). |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Daft comedy sketch. No set requirements other than a semi-circle of chairs, but costumes would seem appropriate, given the nature of the characters. |
Synopsis | The newly combined groups of 'Blatant Confusions' and 'Archaeological Disruptions' have their first meeting to hear about the progress on Stonehenge and other plans for confounding historians and archaeologists of the future. |
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Book City by Peter Keel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A man enters a book store to complain about his purchase, leading the shop asisstant to explain exactly what it is they sell. |
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Booted Out by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Since the character is a football, the question of gender is academic. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue (light comedy). Simple set (a table) and a few props. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A wistful sporting reminiscence told from an unusual perspective. |
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Boy by Janice Sampson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy duologue with a simple single setting in a park. |
Synopsis | Featuring Boy, a rather foul mouthed assertive West Highland Terrier, and the timid young woman who is dogsitting whilst his owners are away. Disgruntled with the way in which he is being cared for, Boy deliberately disobeys the young woman and, using very adult language, lets the audience know just how he feels. As the tussle for superiority progresses the roles become reversed ending in a newly subservient Boy being dominated by the young woman who, as a result of Boy's behaviour, has found a new self-assurance. |
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Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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The Breakfast Police by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two parents, an 11-year-old (written male) and two members of the police force. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. In theory, a domestic set - in practice, a table and chairs. |
Synopsis | Ignoring the wishes of his parents, Toby has chosen not to eat breakfast today - an illegal action which must be dealt with by the Breakfast Police. |
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A Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short educational sketch. |
Synopsis | Learn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration. |
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Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench. |
Synopsis | A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is. |
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