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| Don't You Get It? by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the central character is written (addressed as) male, it is the author's intention that all the characters could be played by either gender. The characters are two adults, two children, though all could be played by secondary school students. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A complex short (in that it has three locations - though each could be created by minimal indications) with lots of scope for interpretation. |
| Synopsis | A schoolchild encounters a few examples of communication failure during a typical day. |
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The Donor by Jamesine Cundell Walker
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| 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 | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again). |
| Synopsis | The Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request. |
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| Double Deck Of Cards by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Comedy sketch with a minimal set (but requiring two bus drivers' uniforms). |
| Synopsis | Two bus drivers discuss why people say 'If he was run down by a bus' and nearly come to blows over some bad jokes. |
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Double Walker by Henry P. Gravelle
Best Short Screenplay - Independent Horror Movie Awards, Online script competition, July 9, 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single interior (psychiatrist's office) set. |
| Synopsis | Bruce Arnold is referred to Psychiatrist Maria Dobbs after being linked to a series of deaths. He claims it is his shadow, his doppelganger that kills people who make him angry. Can the Doctor get to the truth... or is it already too late? |
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| A Double-Decker For Santa Claus by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play, a modern Christmas Carol without the ghosts! Single set. |
| Synopsis | Christmas doesn't mean much to Mr Howard - he just wants people to buy his cars, whatever the time of year. But now there's a customer in a red suit, looking to for something to replace his old sleigh... |
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| Dr Death by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a doctor's surgery. |
| Synopsis | Mr Peters wants a cure for his bad back, and the doctor has a suggestion that will definitely prevent him feeling any pain... ever again! |
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| Dream Job by Frank Gibbons |
| 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 | Comedy sketch set in an interview room (so a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | A job interview for a man who has - and knows he has - a nasty streak. |
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| The Driving Test by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a car (which need only be a couple of chairs).
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a driving test, which doesn't seem to have gone well. Could anything make it go better? |
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| The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks |
| 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 | Dramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set. |
| Synopsis | A middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit. |
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| Duck by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Three ducks, three swans and three hunters! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (no real set requirements) |
| Synopsis | Three different varieties of duck are arguing about which is the true Duck, when they are united by the threatening behaviour of the ruling swans. Sadly, before their revolution can get off the ground, three duck hunters arrive. |
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