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10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen minute comedy-horror that messes around with the nature of theatre and introduced our reviewer to Chekov’s Cheese Grater.
SynopsisClaire 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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After The Funeral by Jamesine Cundell Walker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.)
SynopsisEdna believes that everyone should have a hobby. Hers is attending funerals.
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Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl.
Run TimeAround 6 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
SynopsisA family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme.
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Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are a six-year-old girl (who might be played by any age!), a bear, a lion and two off-stage voices.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA charming short play for an audience of children with five woodland scenes and a theme of friendship. (The script might be performed by kids or by adults or by a mix!)
SynopsisYoung girl Shanni, separated from her bear hunter Daddy, is lost in the woods. She is befriended and cared for by Bear and a touching and deep friendship develops between the pair.
[Our editor wished to stress that this script is not a reliable guide to the behaviour of ursines.]
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The Blue by Jonathan Edgington
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two speaking roles and a non-speaking bartender.
Run TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA dramatic short.
SynopsisIn a bar, Brian talks to Jessica about his former wife, who was a military drone pilot.
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The Consultation by Rosemary Enright
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two main characters - consultant and patient - and a cameo from the nurse.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleShort drama set in a doctor's consulting room (furniture only).
SynopsisA very determined and opinionated patient confronts her Oncology specialist about his intended treatment of her condition. She challenges his views on a number of fronts, leaving him unsure of almost everything.
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Dating by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 playwriting competition, 2010.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute play. Single (minimal set representing a corner of a wine bar). Lots of character work built from a very short script.
SynopsisEve and her friend Hope are comparing war stories of dating, even though Hope already has her man sorted. Just as Eve seems to have given up, she literally runs into Peter, an associate of her ex-husband. But is he too good to be true?
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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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Don't You Get It? by Herb Hasler
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA complex short (in that it has three locations - though each could be created by minimal indications) with lots of scope for interpretation.
SynopsisA schoolchild encounters a few examples of communication failure during a typical day.
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Good Advice by Olivia Arieti
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 7 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with a single (coffee shop) setting.
SynopsisEncouraged by her worldly friend Alice, ageing spinster Norma starts to think about her love life, or the lack of it, when former sweetheart Bill comes into the café.
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