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The Actress by Hilary Mackelden
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy prose monologue. Single set (a table and a phone), so could be performed front-of-curtain.
SynopsisA 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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Feeding the Pigs by Hilary Mackelden
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn enjoyably grim monologue.
SynopsisMara has killed her husband and needs to get rid of the body. She takes him, at dead of night, to a pig farm ten miles away to feed him to the pigs. She succeeds, but makes a potentially damning mistake.
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Van Rental by Hilary Mackelden
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTwo-handed comedy sketch, with the two parties at either end of a telephone line.
SynopsisAn undertaker has a transport problem, but renting a van to get the coffin to the crematorium is proving harder than he expected. Curse those bureaucratic types!
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