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A Human Write by Amelia Armande Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus. Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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I 'Aven't The Foggiest by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Brenda is a gauche, middle-aged Yorkshirewoman. (Make your own mind up as to what that means.) |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue with no need for a set. |
Synopsis | Brenda recounts the day she went for a walk and got a lot more than she bargained for. |
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I Am Not Marilyn Monroe by Fiona Scott Patrick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue, with plenty of acting challenges. |
Synopsis | Zara is a twenty-something who has trouble sleeping and uses alcohol to help her. Her alcohol infused confusion becomes her reality and her love of old movie stars puts her in a fantasy world. She plays at being Marilyn Monroe. On being Marilyn, she comes across a new confident in the form of a six-legged spider whom she very appropriately decides to name Bobby Kennedy! |
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I Quite Fancy A Go At Lacrosse by Janice Sampson |
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 comedy monologue with adult language and themes. |
Synopsis | Whatever Melanie does she just can't find a man. Her past outlandish schemes, including a rugby club, have failed to assist her in her quest. When Matthew starts work in the same office he seems to be the answer to her dreams and she decides that the best way to impress him is to agree to his suggestion of a charity parachute jump. Expecting to land in his arms she is disappointed to find he has brought along his drop dead gorgeous girlfriend! She decides that this is the final straw and vows to give up her hunt but another prospect comes along in the form of Martin from packaging, who's another one with an interesting hobby... |
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I Will Pass My Jeans On by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play. |
Synopsis | Tara and Abbie are washing and ironing their mum’s old clothes, getting ready to pass them on to charity. Mum can’t resist giving them advice, but she is not all there. |
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An Ice Mess You Got Me Into by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Erm, an Iceberg! |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue. No set, no props. |
Synopsis | An iceberg complains about the unexpected results of being struck by a certain liner in 1912. |
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Imaginary Friends by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two female, one male, but other divisions would be possible. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. No set requirements, simple props (two chairs and a book). |
Synopsis | Two people thrown into a room have to come to terms with the way of preserving sanity adopted by the existing occupant. |
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Imagine You Are A Tree by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Sometimes meditation doesn’t bring the peace and tranquility that was sought. |
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The Importance Of Being Belinda by John Garforth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (garden) setting. Adult themes and strong language abound! |
Synopsis | The feminist Sapphire Theatre Collective is in final rehearsal for Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’. Wilde’s script has been revised and updated to cater for an all female cast and political correctness by Belinda. The opening is in doubt as Belinda has been arrested for gross indecency on stage during a previous performance, but the show must go on! |
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In the Bag by Frances Bartram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst there is nominally one male role, this is an offstage voice with little to say, and could as well be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set - the back room of a charity shop (and, as you might expect, the props are largely charity shop bric-a-brac) |
Synopsis | Maureen and Mary are volunteers in a charity shop and every day is much like the one before. But today, when they're going through new donations, they find some money. A lot of money. Just as they're deciding what to do with it, two new volunteers arrive. What to do? |
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