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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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| First Day In Drama Class by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A small class of students, a teacher and the Principal. (Could be played to age or could all be played by the members of a youth theatre group.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy for youth theatre with a single (classroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | A new drama teacher attempting to establish a rapport with his students uses unorthodox methods which serve only to alienate them. Then the Principal arrives to reveal that all is not what it seems. |
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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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| Ketchup by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch |
| Synopsis | Mom and Dad are preparing to have the talk with their children. But first , there's the small matter of convincing them to eat their vegetables. |
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