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| A Square Peg in a Round Hole 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Peggy has had to go into a care home and reflects on the changes to her life. |
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| The Staff Room by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only). |
| Synopsis | Unable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties. |
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| The Story of an Hour by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Louise Mallard's husband Brently has been killed in a train accident and her sister Josephine and husband's friend Barton try to break the news to her in a way that won't disturb her heart condition. They are unaware of how trapped she feels by the marriage and the freedom that her husband's death gives. However Barton has been given the wrong information by the police and Brently arrives just as Louise is planning her long, free life. |
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| Strangers When We Meet by Scott Carpenter |
| 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 ten minute play. |
| Synopsis | Malcolm and Eira are both in their sixties, and looking for love. As the two make awkward small talk, childhoods are revisited and memories are stirred. Perhaps they are not strangers at all |
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| Take a Seat by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute light comedy monologue with poignant moments. |
| Synopsis | Freda loves her favourite bench in the park, where she can watch the world go by. But nothing has prepared her for the sudden appearance of a runaway bride. What advice if any can Freda give, especially when a desperate young man appears on the scene? |
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| Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, set in a school headteacher's office.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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| Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
| Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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| Ten Minutes Left by Bart Meehan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with minimal set requirements. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | A couple’s previously staid relationship blossoms as they wait, knowing there are only ten minutes before an unknown catastrophe arrives. Is there time to remember their first meeting? |
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| Terminal 1 by Dave Payne |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute drama with a single (departure lounge) setting. |
| Synopsis | George and Lynda's flight has been delayed, so far by 9 hours. George becomes more and more annoyed whilst Lynda is strangely calm and collected. Their love for each other shines through as the reason for their journey - and the play's title - becomes poignantly clear. |
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| Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
| Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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