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| Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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| The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
| Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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| Trawling by Tony Benge |
| 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 | Fifteen minute comedy monody (a play, rather than a monologue recitation). Single minimum set - a nightclub cloakroom. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | In a delightfully conversational and friendly way night club Cloakroom Attendant - or should that be 'Coat Hanger' or 'Personal Items Controller'? - Leanne Fishwicik gives us an amusing insight into her work as she trawls through items left at the cloakroom to give us a run down on her regular customers' lives and habits. We get a glimpse of her feelings for dreamboat boss, Simon prompted by her trawling through his 'personal item' left in her control. |
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| Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
| Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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| Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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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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