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A Fevver For Me 'At by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue in a cockney accent! Designed to form part of a music hall entertainment. (No set, no props.) |
Synopsis | A lady who glories in the correct headgear (and the accessories for it) reveals the trouble she went to, preparing for tea with the vicar. |
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Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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Getting On by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for one actor - a good, subtle character piece. Minimal set requirements (a chair). |
Synopsis | Sixty-something Joyce is a lonely widow, but she remains remarkably tolerant despite being neglected by her ambitious son. |
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Going Digital by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue set in an armchair surrounded by remote controls. |
Synopsis | Patricia, in her eighties, struggles to adapt to the increasingly complex technology which threatens to leave her generation behind. |
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Grace - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act monologue. Single domestic set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
Synopsis | Grace is sorting through the detritus of her life, and holds a rambling conversation with the audience about the people and places she has known. We finally come round with her to the realisation that her husband has died and she is packing up the house ready to sell. |
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Grandma at the Village Fete by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute comedy monologue. Contains ripeness. |
Synopsis | A humourous monologue about the excitement at this year's village fete, with Grandma's fortune telling, the exploits of Camp Claude and a host of other village characters. |
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Grandma's Day Out by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue, no set or props. |
Synopsis | The story of Grandma's eventful day out with the Over-Seventies' Club. |
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The Green Bikini by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark comedy monologue with no set necessary. One example of adult language. |
Synopsis | A woman discusses the change of her holiday plans and how they have affected her. Distracted by carpet stains and visitors, she incriminates herself. |
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High Hopes by William Campbell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. For a tall actress. (But in the absence of a tall actress, just saw the legs off the furniture.) |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue, in which the actress takes on various roles. |
Synopsis | Leonora is a significantly tall woman who has experienced frequent verbal abuse in the workplace because of her height. She relives past incidents, both imaginary and real as she prepares for her next job interview. |
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Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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