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| Tumultus by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the named characters are written male (for reasons of historical verisimilitude), but some could be played female. The two groups of supporters could accommodate a large number of extras, up to the capacity of your amphitheatre. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. This is based on a real event, reported by the military historian Tacitus. |
| Synopsis | In 59 AD, a disgraced Roman Senator, Livineius Regulus, put on a spectacular gladiatorial contest in Pompeii. An incident at the contest sparked a riot (the Tumultus of the title) between Pompeians and rival supporters from Nuceria. This play takes us through the events.
(The run time may be extended, depending on the time spent in gladiatorial contests and riot.) |
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| Twixt Heaven and Hell by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The gatekeepers above and below argue about the disposition of new arrivals. |
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| Two Big Nipple Tassels, 88 by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are in their seventies. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute romantic comedy. Contains mild swearing (and sauciness). |
| Synopsis | As the title suggests there are saucy references in this one act comedy set in Sunnydale Residential Home for the elderly. Two old friends, Ernie and Jerry meet regularly for a relaxing game of dominos. When new resident, sassy, mischievous seventy-year-old Elsie comes on the scene their idyllic routine is interrupted, particularly when mild mannered Ernie falls for her. Jerry tries to help his old friend deal with his thwarted romantic intentions as Ernie falls victim to his unrequited love for Elsie. |
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| Two Surgeons by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two surgeons converse while performing an operation. Cue a string of dreadful medical jokes! |
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| An Unlikely Event by James Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set (a park bench). |
| Synopsis | What at first appears to be a whimsical exchange between two old men on a park bench takes a turn into more dangerous territory! |
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| Voice of a Flea 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 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The fifth in Gill Medway's series of monologues about cleaning lady, Violet Brimley. Minimal set (a chair). |
| Synopsis | Violet's latest job finds her at the house of a celebrated actor, whose chances of a prestigious TV award are in serious jeopardy when he appears to jump into some very hot water. Can Violet's famous tact and diplomacy save the day? |
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| Waiting for the Unicorns by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, requiring little more than a clipboard, a large rock and two actors. (The two animals of every kind are optional.) |
| Synopsis | Noah seems very well organised. He's built the boat thing, all the animals are more or less in alphabetical order, and he's got a list. All that's missing are those infuriating unicorns. Fortunately, his wife has the good sense to grasp the concept of myth and legend. |
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| Watch This Space Too by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. FRED is a computer (and therefore presumably, present in voice only.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, set on the bridge of a spaceship. Uses (with permission) the characters from Karrena Dewhurst's 'Watch This Space' |
| Synopsis | The Captain, the Doctor, Number Two and FRED the computer helpt to bring Rodney the Cleaner 's Art of Air Guitar to an alien race. |
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| We Have To Talk by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | Three relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons. |
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| The Weakest Pupil by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Two teachers, a class of pupils and a voiceover. (Assumed to be played by kids, but could be played by a mixed group.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy skit set in a classroom, with an oddly familiar theme. |
| Synopsis | Mr Blenksworthy-Fingleton hasn't arrived to take his lesson, and the class are looking forward to some rebellious play, thus Mrs Robertson, the supply teacher, comes as a nasty surprise. |
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