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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, biiter-sweet piece for a cast of one. No set, but a few simple props. |
Synopsis | Anne is in her sixties and talking about how she coped with suddenly becoming single again. She's not letting a second man leaving her for another woman get her down, she's picking herself up and living life for herself. |
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What Goes Around... by Vicki Lloyd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun concept for a sketch. Entertaining interaction between the two characters, which builds to a suitable pay-off. Unusual set - a tall plant, a model of a castle and a giant shell - but probably cardboard cut-outs. |
Synopsis | Two goldfish are circling in their bowl. One recalls their early life with a huge family in the ocean. The other thinks they're making it up. |
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What's in a Name? by Cheryl Barrett |
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 | Short comedy monologue (requiring a few props but no set). |
Synopsis | Pam doesn't like her name and reflects on the various pseudonyms she has used over the years. |
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When Life Hands You Lemons by Kate Phimy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A mother and her teenage daughter. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play. Single domestic setting (which need not be elaborate, but does involve a Christmas tree). Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Chloe isn't that interested in decorating the tree this year, but her Mum is determined that they'll do things just as they always have. Chloe has a better idea for this year, though. |
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White Lies by Richard James Production by Alternate Shadows won 1st Place, Best Actress, Best Set at 2016 Duncan Rand One Act Play Festival |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. If necessary, the Waitress could be cast as a waiter. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy. Single simple set (so easy to do as a competition piece). Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Four old University chums meet up again after thirty years for a meal and talk. Bea is concerned only with herself and her own success, and doesn't care about the casual way she has hurt or used the others in the past, and the other ladies decide it's time for payback. But their little revenge stunt goes a little further than they planned. |
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Who Ate All the Pies? by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue (prose) with no set requirements and no props. |
Synopsis | Our heroine has put up with a lot in her marriage, most recently her slob of a husband moving in with her best friend Eileen. But when Eileen announces she can't stand him anymore, the pair realise there’s only one other option... |
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Whose Baby? by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (hospital waiting room) setting. Adult themes. |
Synopsis | Three pregnant women from very different backgrounds have come for a routine check-up. As they wait to be seen, they discuss their various experiences whilst conceiving. One of them goes into labour, with shocking results. |
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Wolfgang by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are nine women of Indian origin and one of Canadian-Jewish extraction! |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in eleven scenes. A study of the character and relationships of Indian women of different ages and classes. |
Synopsis | A grand old lady, Mrs Mira Rajkumar, lives alone and in the past, tyrannizing her two women servants, and imagining her dead dog, Wolfgang, to be still around. A chance reading of a book on Ovid convinces her that she would be able to bring back her dog from Hades, and she does, or does she? |
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Word Up by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Age difference essential. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with a split (living room and office) set. |
Synopsis | Pensioner Ruby is having trouble with her computer and calls a computer helpline. The problem is eventually discovered, but will Ruby like the solution? |
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The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.) |
Synopsis | A routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number. |
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