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| High Hopes by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. For a tall actress. (But in the absence of a tall actress, just saw the legs off the furniture.) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue, in which the actress takes on various roles. |
| Synopsis | Leonora is a significantly tall woman who has experienced frequent verbal abuse in the workplace because of her height. She relives past incidents, both imaginary and real as she prepares for her next job interview. |
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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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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'm On A Train by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat, simple monologue that could be comedy gold in the right hands. (Minimal set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | It's a tough day for businessman Tom Wright, as he races to Edinburgh in a last-ditch attempt to save his company. Sadly, things are not destined to go his way, and the phone calls he makes and receives on that journey reveal the scope of the disaster that unfolds. |
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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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| Insider by Katherine Melmore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act female monologue, with a basic set - a chair. |
| Synopsis | A young woman undergoes a startling transformation into a spider, scurrying around the very hospital where she used to be a patient - or perhaps she still is... Movements should be carefully choreographed. |
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| Is That You, Clint? 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 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda muses about the obscene phone calls her social worker, Shardonnay - with an S - has been receiving. And then about her own calls, after a date-disaster and a no-show, and would it be Clint? |
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