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UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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Unbitten by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama for teenagers with a simple, or no set. |
Synopsis | A powerful metaphorical play using vampires to act out some difficult, angst ridden problems facing most young people, particularly girls, encountering puberty. |
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Unearthed by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play - a ghoulish mystery. No set, but Andrew has to appear to be digging a hole! (Props consist of the pleasing combination of a spade and a mobile phone.) |
Synopsis | As brother and sister Andrew and May dig a hole in the local park at midnight, they unearth more than Andrew had bargained for as the truth behind past horrors is revealed. |
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Upgrades by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy skit. Single set. Some props for visual jokes! |
Synopsis | Flushed with the success of his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell describes his plans for upgrading his phone to his assistant, Watson. |
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The Ups and Downs of Father Jack by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. These are pantomime characters, so Jack could very well be played as a pantomime Principal Boy (so by a girl). The baby is nominally male. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | Jack comes down the beanstalk again, and discovers that there have been some changes at home... |
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Utopian Rhapsody by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, containing a Christian message. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens and Washington Irving trade views and ideas over port in New York, leaving Dickens with a fine outline for a new holiday novel. |
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Vamping It Up by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two vampires and a human. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play, set in a cemetary. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | Vince and Vernon have just got up - it's sundown, and they're breakfasting on synthetic blood. It's raining and the nightclub has started up early, and, to cap it all Vanessa's party has been cancelled because she turned to ashes that morning. But here comes Veronica to cheer them up! |
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A Vampire Play by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters are four teenagers and one adult. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with a gothic heart. (Muahahahaaa!) |
Synopsis | Four girls gather in a forgotten garden shed to await a present promised to one of them by a boy who may or may not be a vampire. But beware, nothing is quite what it seems... |
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Van Rental by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-handed comedy sketch, with the two parties at either end of a telephone line. |
Synopsis | An undertaker has a transport problem, but renting a van to get the coffin to the crematorium is proving harder than he expected. Curse those bureaucratic types! |
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A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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