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10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are adults, but this would be within the compass of a high school-aged actors. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy-horror that messes around with the nature of theatre and introduced our reviewer to Chekov’s Cheese Grater. |
Synopsis | Claire makes a shocking discovery about the nature of her reality, but sharing it with her friend Faye doesn't help either of them, and may even have caused the creation of a zombie. |
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Abandon Ship by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a single setting. |
Synopsis | The ship is sinking, but Fred and Ernie’s prevarication and bickering leaves them vulnerable. |
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Accessory to a Murder by Richard Smithson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male but Gallstone could be cast female. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A novel take on the police genre provides some good jokes. Very easily stageable - two actors and a desk with chairs. |
Synopsis | Police officers Gallstone and Stott are serving the end of their careers in a retirement community. Frustrated that nothing ever happens, Gallstone demands that Stott become a maverick - just like on telly. |
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Accident Liars for You by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, light comedy, three hander, sketch. |
Synopsis | Advertising the services of 'Accident Liars for You', in a zany way. They will back up your insurance claim for any accident, no matter how ridiculous! |
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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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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous. |
Synopsis | In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons. |
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All This Time... by Jack Hutchinson Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easy-to-stage comedy sketch, requiring only two chairs. Takes audition gossip to a new level of cattiness. |
Synopsis | Two ageing amateur dramatic divas have auditioned for the same role in this year’s pantomime. As they await the director's decision, they snipe and argue with each other over past glories. |
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All Your Future Endeavors by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Lynn has a playing age appropriate to someone who has put in 20 years at the workplace. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute bitter-sweet comedy. Single (implied) workplace setting. Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Lynn's being let go after twenty years with the company. Downsizing, they call it, but even though they've sent Joseph the security guard to escort her off the premises, she's not going quietly. |
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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. |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy. Sci-fi or fantasy (it depends on where you draw the boundary) set in an unusual shop. |
Synopsis | Long 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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