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| Is That You, Clint? by Geoff Parker |
| 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 | A comedy monologue with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda muses about the obscene phone calls her social worker, Shardonnay - with an S - has been receiving. And then about her own calls, after a date-disaster and a no-show, and would it be Clint? |
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| Merry Christmas Fritz by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dramatic monologue set in a World War One hospital. |
| Synopsis | A soldier, seriously wounded in the early part of the Great War, relates the horrific experiences which brought him to his hospital bed and his hopes for the future, sadly to be thwarted by events to come.
(The dramatisation allows Tommy to know a little more about the details of the strategy of the First World War generals than he would have known, but not as much as we know with hindsight.) |
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| Mum! by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One female character is a non-speaking cameo role. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue-style short play, with a single, old folks' home, setting. |
| Synopsis | Ever since his mum had gone into the old folks' home Colin and his wife Iris made sure that they visited her every day. They did not realise that their visits were not as important to Mum as they thought, and we learn exactly what she thinks about life in general. The inevitable end is respectfully handled by Colin. |
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| Murdering Muriel by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The paramedic is written male, but could be either (with the occasional change of pronoun). |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, with no set requirement, and includes adult themes and language. |
| Synopsis | Barry's affair with shapely neighbour Caroline is the catalyst for their plan to get rid of Barry's wife Muriel. Death by poisoned chocolate pudding is their weapon of choice, but things go badly awry for Barry. |
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| Over the Top by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set in a First World War trench. |
| Synopsis | As a seasoned sergeant and a young recruit wait for the signal to go over the top they console each other about the position they are in. A sharp reminder of the folly of war with a very surprising ending. |
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| Perceptions by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play set on a park bench. This would be a romantic comedy, if only Alan and Dianne would let it. |
| Synopsis | Alan sits on a park bench next to Dianne. They both have misleading impressions of the other until, awkwardly at first, they begin a conversation. Things develop between them in completely different directions from their first impressions. |
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| Who Ate All the Pies? by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy monologue (prose) with no set requirements and no props. |
| Synopsis | Our heroine has put up with a lot in her marriage, most recently her slob of a husband moving in with her best friend Eileen. But when Eileen announces she can't stand him anymore, the pair realise there’s only one other option... |
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