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10 Abbey Court by Cheryl Barrett
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort play, set in a kitchen. As the scene-setting direction puts it 'The kitchen is furnished with high tech kitchen appliances and bespoke units. These are imagined.'
SynopsisLocal estate agent (*) Jason is showing prospective client Abigail around a property that has just been put on the market. Her shocking reason for being so keen to view this particular property only becomes clear as the curtain closes. * Written in British English. In American, Jason would be a realtor.
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Alternate Reality by Jonathan Edgington
Selected (out of over 1,400 scripts submitted) for performance at the Short&Sweet Hollywood 2024 International Playwriting Festival in L.A.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There are three roles, but Paula and Desirae are played by the same person. (Read the script to see why.) The Shop Owner is written male but could easily be female.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy. Sci-fi or fantasy (it depends on where you draw the boundary) set in an unusual shop.
SynopsisLong suffering Paula is rapidly running out of patience with her nice but predictable and boring husband - so how will she react when he steps out of his comfort zone and buys her the most unusual birthday present ever?
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Audition Anxiety by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 7 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short comedy sketch.
SynopsisLoretta is late for her audition, but worse than that, there are no other members of the theatre group left! Can she audition for the director anyway? Her performance is certainly memorable.
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AWOL by Olivia Arieti
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 7 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA well-scripted short scene for two actors and a bench and gives good opportunity for two actors to explore a range of emotions. (The bench is expected to deliver a wooden performance.)
SynopsisDanny is determined to desert the army and cross the border before his leave is over. He plans a future with Jane, his fiancée, but doubts and fears come out during their farewell.
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Bench Mark 2 by Emma Wise
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act play with a single (park bench) setting.
SynopsisA man and a woman conduct an increasingly tense enigmatic conversation on a park bench, culminating in an abrupt, shocking ending.
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The Break Up by Jamesine Cundell Walker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.)
SynopsisAlex and Bobby meet for a post hoc review of their relationship.
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Brenda the Bunny by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 3 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short comedy sketch.
SynopsisA 'blind date' situation of incompatibility.
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The Care Home by Jamesine Cundell Walker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 6 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.)
SynopsisPoignant short vignette in which Harriet, a young care-home worker, meets the retired Georgie on a park bench.
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Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice.
Run TimeAround 3 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office.
SynopsisThis is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'.
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The Football Manager by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Because the writer is English, the manager is the manager of a football (soccer!) team - but it could just as well be another team game.
Run TimeAround 4 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
SynopsisA football manager has a novel approach to the game. A play with an Advent theme.
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