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Billy Loves Brenda by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Billy has just got a romantic tattoo. There's only one problem - it doesn't quite match his circumstances. |
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Everything's Coming Up Roses by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A romantic comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Hayfever sufferer Rose has been advised to relieve her work stress by sitting and smelling the roses. Her visit to the park does little to relieve her stress until she meets gardener Brad and romance blooms. |
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Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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Memories by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Romantic comedy in two short scenes. |
Synopsis | Robert's a great actor, and Judith is certain he's the one to star in her new play, but he's having a lot of doubts about his ability to remember the lines. His co-star does her best to help him out, with startling results. |
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On Our Own by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are in their late teens - at an age to be leaving home. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy play. Single interior set (which can be kept to a minimum of a couple of pieces of furniture). |
Synopsis | Josh and Debbie are finally moving in together, despite their mothers' misgivings. They're confident that they're ready for this step in their relationship, but before the boxes are unpacked, they run into some problems. |
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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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Royals in Love by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally older, this is could easily be performed by a junior group. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Light romantic comedy. Two scenes, but requiring furniture only (assuming that the definition of stage furniture runs to a fallen tree). |
Synopsis | It's not easy for Prince Gerald and Princess Wendy to accept the court's rigid protocol and whenever they can, they sneak away. When they meet, both conceal their true identity, but things get complicated when Gerald resolves to propose. |
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The Slim Blonde Beauty by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are young adults. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short romantic comedy with two simple settings. |
Synopsis | It starts with an ad in the free paper... Insecure Jack's search for the woman of his dreams has hit troubled waters. His friend Tom persuades him to try speed dating with hilarious (but ultimately satisfying) consequences. |
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So Long, Prince Charming by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Max is written male, but the writer suggests that other interpretations would be possible. One of the female characters is a non-speaking cameo. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. Genre? Well, George, the central character, wants this to be a romantic comedy, but Ingrid has other ideas. Single cafe setting. |
Synopsis | George is a romantic, and determined to overcome Ingrid's reluctance with a muffin, his natural charm and a detailed explanation of his good points. Ingrid is in the cafe for the peace and quiet, but after a few minutes of George's company, she's ready to leave... with Max. |
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Three Across by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy on a single coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Nathan is hoping for a peaceful morning as he tackles the crossword in his local coffee shop. But when a total stranger, Joanna, decides to share his table, and her ex, Grant, takes the next table along, he is drawn into her romantic tangles. |
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