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| Greens with Envy by Ben Francis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with no set or props, just the imagination of the audience. |
| Synopsis | What has been going on at the allotments? Newcomer Morgan has filled his plot with erotic garden gnomes and christened his shed 'The Love Pad'. And there has been a mysterious break-in at Ralph's shed. Then Ralph’s wife goes on holiday, and nobody knows where she is... |
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| Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
| Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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| Hearts and Minds by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue, set in a Northern Irish kitchen. |
| Synopsis | Ulsterman Michael grew up in the Troubles and fears his beloved Belfast has failed to learn the lessons of the past. |
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| Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
| Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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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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