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A Square Peg in a Round Hole 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Peggy has had to go into a care home and reflects on the changes to her life. |
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Step Sisters 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and energetic monologue. |
Synopsis | Enthusiastic aerobics teacher, Katie, tries her hardest to deliver her step class. Despite her valiant efforts to put her step sisters through their paces, she is faced with interruptions and setbacks throughout. |
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Stop Shouting, George 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy monologue with a simple kitchen setting. |
Synopsis | Ruth is worried about what has happened to her husband George's fashion sense since his retirement. |
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The Substitute by Duncan Battman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in the form of a monologue. Dramatic content, though the direct action is minimal. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | A long but dramatic monologue delivered by Frank, an ex-footballer who is now confined to a wheelchair. As he packs up his room he relates the ups and downs of his life, right up to the startling conclusion. |
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Take a Seat by Gill Medway |
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 | Ten minute light comedy monologue with poignant moments. |
Synopsis | Freda loves her favourite bench in the park, where she can watch the world go by. But nothing has prepared her for the sudden appearance of a runaway bride. What advice if any can Freda give, especially when a desperate young man appears on the scene? |
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Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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That Goal by Stan Duncan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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, poignant prose monologue of appeal to people for whom interests in football and theatre intersect! |
Synopsis | Denis is an ex-professional footballer, whose visitors remind him of his past glories. |
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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That Sinking Feeling by David Dean |
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 monologue-sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A customer service call-taker deals with an unhappy customer - who is dealing with a situation on board the Titanic, and wants to know if the company will compensate her... |
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A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
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To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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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