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The Cautionary Tale of Eva Bird by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
Synopsis | The cautionary tale of Eva Bird - the Nuclear Nightingale. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Humpty Dumpty by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. No specific gender requirement. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A rhyming comedy monologue, with no set requirement. |
Synopsis | The bullying Humpty Dumpty meets his deserved end, as the narrator reveals how he - or she - pushed him off the wall and describes the subsequent rejoicing. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Miss Lucy Luckett by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A monologue for two persons! The intention is that someone should recite the verse whilst the story is acted out in mime. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy monologue - a cautionary tale told in verse |
Synopsis | Desperate for a life on the stage, Lucy Luckett tragically over-stretches herself! |
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Chain Reaction by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The author describes all the characters as 'of a similar age, which would ideally be around forty, give or take a decade or two.' |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with two scenes (hotel bar and a living room) exploring adult themes with an intriguing mix of monologue and action. |
Synopsis | A group of singles attempting to find partners with varying levels of desperation, happily resulting in reconciliation for at least one couple. |
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Cissie Encountering The Gods by Sandra Horn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act monologue. |
Synopsis | Cissie tells us of her life and her strange neighbour Thea. Thea and her daughter Cory have had a big effect on Cissie's life. They bring an interest beyond her brief and boring marriage and the prying eyes of her other neighbours, as well as a genuinely unexpected intimate encounter. |
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The Clock Mender 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 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | A comic history of tinkering with mechanisms. |
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The Contestant by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy monologue with a simple (TV studio) set or can be played with no set. |
Synopsis | Jake is a contestant on a TV quiz show. He obviously has a high opinion of himself and his abilities, but it soon becomes clear he is not as smart as he thinks he is. |
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Crime by Janet S. Tiger |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Christine is written female, but could become a male Chris at the discretion of a production |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama consisting of three connected monologues. |
Synopsis | Three people talk about their connections to the same killings. |
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Dear Diet Diary by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. A middle-aged lady who feels she needs to lose weight. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play for one. |
Synopsis | A woman who has been struggling with her weight addresses the issue of dieting through a monologue directed at her diary. |
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The Definition of Love by Benoni Holt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The monologue is in the voice of a sixteen-year-old English girl. (There is some room for manoeuvre - with minor tweaks to the script - in the specific age, and in the nationality). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act monologue. No set or props required. Contains swearing and sensitive issues. |
Synopsis | An angry sixteen-year-old rages about her sister's cancer and the many other trials in her life, all brought about by the ability to love. She argues for and against in an eloquent, sometimes poignant, monologue with an unexpectedly positive ending. |
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