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| Profound Moments by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a single pub set. Contains swearing (and discussions amongst ladies). |
| Synopsis | A quartet of modern single lady friends gather in a pub for a girlie night out. They relate (in intimate detail) their experiences with the opposite sex, and their search for that profound moment which will see them find Mr Right... |
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| Rabbits Are No Substitute For Men by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for three thirty-something single women with one living room setting. There are adult themes but these are less raunchy than the title might suggest! |
| Synopsis | Housemates Jennifer, Jane and Gaby all have their own way of dealing with the death of Jane's pet rabbit, the vagaries of Jennifer's on- off relationship with Danny and Gaby's pregnancy. |
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| The Ratcatcher's Lament by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming monologue. No set requirements.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | What happens when the bottom drops out of the rat catching market! |
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| Reason by Katherine Melmore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic monologue, suitable for youth theatre, with no set requirement. |
| Synopsis | Homeless Wendy relates her experiences of living on the streets and brings her encounters to life. |
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| Red Card by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single domestic set (which could be done with furniture only). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bex, Shaz and Trish, three unattached girls looking for Mr Right, decide to hole themselves up in their appartment in an attempt to escape the ordeal of 'The Festival of Guilt' that is Valentine's Day. But the arrival of an anonymous card leads not to love, but to a war of words and confessions bound to test their friendship... |
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| Retail Therapy by Cherol Filbee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | A wife employs retail therapy to take sweet revenge on her serial cheating husband and his gold-digging mistress. |
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| A Right Old Scream by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch requiring only a couple of chairs (so could be performed front-of-curtain between more complex pieces). |
| Synopsis | Judith and Mavis are on a day out. They have an unexpected cultural experience whilst sheltering from the rain, when an art gallery gives them something to Munch on... |
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| Right on Cue by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Roles are written as 2 male, 2 female, but all could be played as either. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (police office) setting. |
| Synopsis | The Battersea Batterer is causing havoc for the understaffed local CID as he goes around the neighbourhood hitting people over the head with a billiard cue. The police are snookered at first but are assisted by a psychological profiler in solving the case. |
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| Ring Finger 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 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue (not for the squeamish) in a single set (it really only needs a bedroom chair). |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth travels with a childhood friend to The Pyramids where the old moral to 'be careful what you wish for' takes a violent and unexpected turn. |
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| Romantic Novelist by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play for three ladies. Single set (written as a domestic interior, but could be hinted-at, rather than fully realised). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Louella Packenham is struggling to finish her latest bodice-ripper with the help of her faithful assistant Miss Trent. But Louella's errant husband is clearly on her mind too, then her housekeeper Miss Fortune asks for help with her equally wayward brother. Can the straitlaced Miss Trent bring him back to the fold? |
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