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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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Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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I'm Worried About Our Planet by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 | Contemporary comedy monologue. No set requirements, but a park bench, mackintosh and flat cap would be advantageous. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | From the platform of his park bench, Gerald Grimble has some concerns that he wishes to share with us. |
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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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Knotweed 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 | A rhyming comedy monologue with no set requirement. |
Synopsis | Monty is in a dilemma when an invasive plant takes over his garden. But is it Knotweed or is it not? |
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Lay Your Cards on the Table by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue for an injured sportsman. Minimal set (a lap-top computer with some means of support). A tender mixture of comedy and pathos. |
Synopsis | Wheelchair-bound former rugby player Tom has been surfing the web to keep himself occupied since his accident and has developed an interesting income stream. |
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Long Live Pantomime 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 | Rhyming monologue (no requirements for set or props). |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to the traditions of British pantomime. |
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Merry Christmas Fritz by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dramatic monologue set in a World War One hospital. |
Synopsis | A soldier, seriously wounded in the early part of the Great War, relates the horrific experiences which brought him to his hospital bed and his hopes for the future, sadly to be thwarted by events to come. (The dramatisation allows Tommy to know a little more about the details of the strategy of the First World War generals than he would have known, but not as much as we know with hindsight.) |
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Nuisance Call by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comic monologue with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A medieval phone help line is offering advice and comfort to victims of the plague. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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