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Friendly Bombs by Nicolas Ridley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy short on a single (office) set. |
Synopsis | The 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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Friends by David Dunn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are all teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for teenagers. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Bex and Sam discuss the nature of friendship, while Sam's younger brother tries to figure out how to explain away an expensive present. |
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A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
Synopsis | Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... |
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The Frustrated Poet by Damian Trasler |
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. Simple set (desk and chair). Contains mild swearing. And poetry. |
Synopsis | A poet tries, but, sadly, fails, to write an ode to nightingales... |
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Full Circle by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An intriguing short comedy set in an American high school - an ideal vehicle for school or youth theatre. Stage split between simple representations of the school cafeteria and the principal's office. |
Synopsis | With typical angst, five high school pupils are involved in various relationship difficulties with each other, resulting in assorted fracas in the school cafeteria which the long-suffering principal is left to resolve. |
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Fundraiser by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short comedy sketch, with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | With funding running low, how might the Cruttock's End Lap Dance and Pole Artistes Collective raise some capital? |
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Future Gazing by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 sketch |
Synopsis | Ernie thinks he can see the future through a portable crystal ball - which looks suspiciously like a glass marble. Fred has his doubts. |
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Galileo & Co. by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for school age children, which might kick-start projects about the stars, about science, about history, or about religion. |
Synopsis | Galileo has been summoned before the Holy Office to renounce his heretical findings that the Earth rotates around the sun. In the few minutes before his hearing, some unusual characters try to convince him to stick to the truth. |
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The Game by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, highlighting relationships and friendships. |
Synopsis | In different social circles at school, Gem and Katy are horrified to discover that their parents are dating. They resolve to break the couple up, but don’t seem to anticipate the results of having to work together on the project. |
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The Gangster Game by Kitty Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy play |
Synopsis | Three wiseguys meet over cards in a shady hotel room, but when one turns out to be an undercover Fed, the guns come out. Then Mum comes in with snacks. |
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