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| Bit of a Gossip by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are descibed as 'a couple of mature ladies'. Make your own mind up as to what constitutes maturity! |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Minimal set. Contains cream cakes.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A couple of ladies set the world to rights - largely by putting everyone else down. |
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| A Bit of a Turn 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch on a minimal café set. |
| Synopsis | Maureen and her Aunt Vera are discussing Brenda's latest accident. |
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Blackbird by Jamesine Cundell Walker
New |
| 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 drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Overbearing mother Rosie drops off her anxious daughter Florence at the start of her first term at Oxford. |
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| Blatant Disruptions by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst six of the characters are written male, they are representations of famous archetypes and there's no barrier to them being portrayed by women wearing fake beards (or other appropriate indicators of character). |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Daft comedy sketch. No set requirements other than a semi-circle of chairs, but costumes would seem appropriate, given the nature of the characters. |
| Synopsis | The newly combined groups of 'Blatant Confusions' and 'Archaeological Disruptions' have their first meeting to hear about the progress on Stonehenge and other plans for confounding historians and archaeologists of the future. |
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Blood On Canvas by Richard James
Best Seller Best Play, Maidenhead Drama Guild, Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2021 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tense one act thriller with a single (art gallery) setting. |
| Synopsis | Artist Maddie is beginning to establish herself as a successful artist, but her studio and gallery are situated in a remote area and a killer is apparently on the loose. When art collector Stella arrives, it becomes clear that one of them is the killer. The tension rises inexorably... to the shocking final denouement. |
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| The Board Meeting by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One traditional song is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short comedy drama on a simple (meeting room) set. |
| Synopsis | A group of imaginary friends from Layla’s childhood desperately try to come up with a plan to revive an adult Layla from a coma. |
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| Body Confident 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 | Short dramatic monologue, with no set requirements (assuming that a pilates mat counts as a prop rather than set). |
| Synopsis | Caroline, a Pilates teacher, attempts to counter ugly rumours which threaten to destroy her reputation and luxury lifestyle. |
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| Bomber Command by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The script specifies the characters as two male and one female, however if gunner Jenkins is female, there's no reason why the rest could not be played so. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | The Pilot and Flight Engineer of a Lancaster Bomber face trouble from 'the passengers' in the back! |
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| The Book Club Of Little Witterington - After The Fete by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | The ladies of the village book club have gathered to discuss Neville Shute’s ‘On The Beach’. Some of the members have not read the book and the others seem more interested in discussing - or rather gossiping - about people and events in the village which spill over into the meeting. |
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| The Book Club Of Little Witterington - The Vicar's Wife by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) setting. The third in a series, it can be presented either separately or alongside the first two as a full evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | The ladies of the bookclub have gathered again, this time with a new member, the vicar’s newlywed. Once again, gossip and tittle-tattle overwhelm the discussion of the chosen book, ‘The Rector’s Wife’, and the new member finds herself and husband Dennis are the centre of attention. |
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