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When All Around You by Tony Domaille
Winner Pint Sized Plays 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | A ten-minute comedy skit. |
| Synopsis | In medieval England, Sir John is about to be executed for treason by the very personable executioner, Eugene. Sir John would do anything to get out of losing his head, and Eugene would really like a new best friend. |
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| When Fairy Tales Collide by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel are busy not getting fatter, but their lonely life in the witch's cottage is interrupted by a constant stream of visitors - Goldilocks, two princes, a Wicked Queen, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf... This is going to take some work to get to Happily Ever After. |
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| When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
| Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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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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| Why Homo Erectus Died Out by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Optional gender for the Presenter role |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy play, with a single simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Professor Anthony presents his imaginative theory as to why Homo-Erectus died out, as we watch the interaction between male and female played out in mime - and Ugs - before our very eyes. |
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| Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
| Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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| Wink by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy. Single simple set (just a table and two chairs to simulate a small café ). |
| Synopsis | Ted is waiting nervously for his 'wink' - a sort of pre-date date. His nerves are soothed by a helpful waitress who lets him in on some of the mysteries of womankind. When his wink doesn't even stay for coffee, Ted finds love anyway... |
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| A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
| Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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| The Woofer and The Flagger by Ethan Bortman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy with a single (market stall) setting. |
| Synopsis | Tourist, Larry comes across a simple market stall offering a free massage with purchases of bottles and sprays of various herbal products. As Maggie starts his massage he learns about her unconventional lifestyle. |
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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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