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A National Treasure - A Lifetime's Interest 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 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Part one of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Her encounter with her client Mr Ranwell and his highly salacious collection of books confirms her opinions about the transient quality of beauty - and the yardstick by which a gentleman should be judged. |
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A National Treasure - Lady with a Fan 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 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Part three of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet enters the world of art and culture, and makes the acquaintance of a beautiful portrait. But something tells our shrewd charlady that nothing is quite as it seems. |
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A National Treasure - Monologue Collection 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 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three monologues. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. We encounter her on three very different and unusual jobs. |
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A National Treasure - Trouble for Sixpence 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 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Part two of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet's next job lands her in a creepy attic with a mysterious bricked-up window. What exactly happened there over a hundred years ago? And has she found love at last - a century too late? |
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Nightwalking by Frank Canino Won third place in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (international play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] This is right at the lower time limit for one-act play festivals, but a brilliant festival piece. |
Music | None. |
Style | Chamber theatre piece - black-box set, with a stepladder as the sole piece of furniture. The actors communicate through interior monologues and movement. |
Synopsis | A young wife discovers that her husband is going out at night, when he thinks she is asleep. What should she do? What will she find if she follows him? What will become of their relationship if she follows him or if she does not? |
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Nothing Is What It Seems by Martyn 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 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark, dramatic monologue, and a challenge for an actor. |
Synopsis | He looks like a rough sleeper, but the man on the bench warns the audience not to make assumptions. He could be a police officer, working undercover. Or his story could be much darker and more tragic. |
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Nuisance Call by David Dean |
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 | A short comic monologue with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A medieval phone help line is offering advice and comfort to victims of the plague. |
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On Stage With Shirley Bassey by Janice Sampson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One man and his urn. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monody (a monologue with a little action and a few simple props) for a dutiful middle-aged son. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | In this hilarious, and at times touching monologue we meet David who has come to sort out his recently deceased mother's bungalow. The most difficult part of his task is to deal with Mum's vast collection of Shirley Bassey memorabilia and even more difficult, though he won't admit it, to deal with his bereavement and say goodbye to his mother. Much to the embarrassment and annoyance of wife, Brenda he carries Mum's ashes around with him and is going through the process of taking Mum to all her favourite places. The final location he thinks of is Mum's ultimate dream - but will Shirley agree? |
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A One Hearse Town by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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. |
Synopsis | An Irish village is bereft of a spiritual centre since the Priest departed with a lady named Bridget. Luckily, the Pub now stands in the church's stead, offering solace, groceries, community and, of course, whiskey. |
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Oxford English Destiny 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 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue - charm and pathos rather than outright comedy. |
Synopsis | Elderly Robert reminisces about a 'funny old game' he’s played on and off throughout his life, in which a word chosen at random from the dictionary determines one's destiny. |
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