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Questions by Susan Vesey Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Edward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it. |
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Russell at the Doctor by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | Russell goes for a medical check up and discovers that he has been allocated a new Doctor A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Emotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient. |
Synopsis | Beth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head... |
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Shoes by Robert M. Barr |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (park bench) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | When an older man meets a homeless, shoeless, middle-aged man in a park, the older one makes an offer that is both comforting and insulting. But when the younger one finds out the reason for the offer, he is intrigued. |
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Singulatitis by Troy Shearer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr. Swanson is written male but could be reassigned! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute surreal comedy sketch, set in a doctor's surgery. |
Synopsis | A man with extreme hiccups receives a strange and fateful diagnosis from his doctor. |
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Size Zero by Dave Payne |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
Synopsis | Gill struggles to deal with her daughter's anorexia. She tries every trick in the book to persuade, cajole, beg and guilt-trip Claire into eating, but when Claire refuses, a tortured Gill snaps. |
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The Thing She Left Behind by Tracey Vanessa Brown |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play on a split set - a sick room in a castle and a Louisiana backroad. |
Synopsis | In Scotland, elderly Felicia lies dying, hoping to pass on her secret witchcraft to a younger relative. Her death is discussed by three other witches in Felicia’s home of Louisiana. |
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Trick Or Treat? [Sketch] by Karen Fitzsimmons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | Esme has gone to the doctor for some help - she's being plagued by a vampire that only she can see. And this is no sexy teen vamp, it's a Bela Lugosi-style Prince of Darkness who is, frankly, annoying. The solution is pricey, but we can be pretty sure that it'll work.. |
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Tumor by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play, single set (the main requirement is a hospital bed). |
Synopsis | Mr Davidson is waiting for an operation when Bruce uses his hospital room as a place to hide. A few of Bruce's questions give Mr Davidson something other than surgery to think about, and when he wakes up minus his tumour, he has something unexpected to tell his wife. |
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A Walk on the Wild Side by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Mary is feeding the birds in the park and bemoaning the local council’s latest ruling, whilst contemplating her arthritic hip. |
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