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Accountant from Hell by Barry Wood Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short, with an unexpected take on exorcism. Minimal set. |
Synopsis | Father Murphy has been summoned because Karen appears to be possessed, and possessed by the spirit of an accountant. Worse still, it's an accountant Father Murphy knew in life. |
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Ackroyd’s Christmas Stocking by Alison Clink |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with a single (kitchen/diner) setting. Some strong language. Contains sprouts. |
Synopsis | Helen and Chris are rather dubious about daughter Charlotte's new boyfriend, shaven headed Ackroyd, currently on police bail. Helen does her best to include him in the family's Christmas celebrations with surprising consequences for them all. |
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Acorn Fields by Barry Wood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy on a single (retirement home lounge) set. |
Synopsis | Charlie is visiting Acorn Fields to move his father in. He’s much impressed with the facilities, though it turns out they’re looking after Charlie so nicely because they have mistaken him for his father, and think he’s a resident! |
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The Acquisition by Henry P. Gravelle New Jersey Film Awards - 2021 Winner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking roles and one non-speaking demonic arm. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act melodrama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Art collector Emory has acquired an ancient artefact of immense value and horrifying malevolence. He is eager for his niece Michelle to admire it, but she uses it as an instrument of revenge against her unfaithful husband |
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Across The Road by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play. |
Synopsis | Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It's a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house... |
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Across The Universe by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the named characters there is an offstage voice that might be live or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Two co-workers in a search for Extra Terrestrial Life establishment discuss the value of their work. |
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The Actor by Ian Sharrock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is, rather obviously, an actor. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue. No set requirements, just a phone. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | A short monologue presenting one side of a phone call by a wannabe actor who's really just a jumped-up extra. As he boasts of his next big role, he dreams of the opportunities it's going to bring, only to be brought back down to earth with a bump. |
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The Actress by Hilary Mackelden Best Seller |
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 | Comedy prose monologue. Single set (a table and a phone), so could be performed front-of-curtain. |
Synopsis | A phone call to the director of the village Harvest Festival pageant from an experienced actress who feels, yet again, that she has been mis-cast . |
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Addiction by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dark, dramatic monologue. Minimal set. (US English.) |
Synopsis | Matthew talks to his wife, admitting his shortcomings as a partner and husband, but is finally overcome by rage. |
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Adoption by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The interviewer is written male but could, at a pinch, be played female. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short. Either two simple sets (just furniture) or, more likely, the stage split into two acting areas. |
Synopsis | A husband and wife are faced with an unhelpful interviewer when they apply to adopt a child, but his says he has some relatives who might be able to help them out... unofficially. Soon they're passed from Aunt to Uncle and back to the original interviewer, but no one is really saying what they mean. |
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