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| Broken by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The 2 male roles are very minor. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller, with a single - old dining room - setting. |
| Synopsis | Lucy receives a mysterious email inviting her to a house that turns out to have been abandoned for years. Waiting there is her former mother-in-law, who still blames Lucy for the death of her son. But there are more surprises to come... |
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| The Brotherhood of Big Ben by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for three actors, no set required. |
| Synopsis | Jack Steeple wants to join the secretive Brotherhood of Big Ben, but first he must undergo the initiation ceremony. |
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| Brotherly Love by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Jack's sister Emma gives the family a scare after a row with her brother. A short, sweet play examining brother/sister relationships. |
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| A Brush with Love by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch for a table, two chairs and a couple of actors. |
| Synopsis | George, a test tube brush salesman, finds his perfect partner. |
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| Brush Yourself Off and Move On by Megan Boduch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (the Director) has two short lines, which could be done from offstage. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - a character study - set outside a Broadway audition (though it could be a theatrical audition anywhere). No specific set requirements, simple props. |
| Synopsis | A Broadway hopeful is waiting nervously outside her latest audition. A rival gains her trust but proceeds to destroy her confidence, apparently for no better reason than her own amusement. Just as our girl is about to give it all up, however, a man arrives and is considerate and kind. He restores her confidence and points out her advantages over the more poisonous girl. Together they point out the girl's deficiencies to her and win the moral victory over her. |
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| Bubonic Butter by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in the management suite of a dairy products company. |
| Synopsis | A boardoom discussion about a name for a new product in the Dairy Delights range. |
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| Bud and Jewel - Busted by Carol Kline |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle-aged couple. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy sketch. Single set (indicative of a prison cell). |
| Synopsis | Bud's in the slammer for an altercation with his neighbor. His wife Jewel is keen to tell him what she thinks of him, but then he fills her in on the whole story and all of a sudden she's keen to take on the neighbor... |
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| Bud and Jewel - Predictable by Carol Kline |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle-aged couple. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy sketch (with some serious points). Single set (in theory, it's Bud and Jewel's home, but there's no real requirement for furniture). Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jewel has called her husband home early on a work day to give him some bad news - she thinks they've become predictable. Bud argues, but she knows exactly what he's going to say before he opens his mouth, and she can prove it... |
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| Budget Airlines by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short in-flight comedy sketch with a minimal set - just a couple of chairs to indicate the aisle of an aircraft. |
| Synopsis | When flying with a budget airline it is always a good idea to read the small print to understand exactly what you get for your money - and what is extra... |
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| Bullies by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children. (Could all be played by children.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for eight songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script |
| Style | One-act musical play for performance by children or a mixture of adults and children. Very simple set and no specific requirements for props. |
| Synopsis | A review and also a revue! A series of linked musical sketches presenting an investigation of issues surrounding bullying at school, covering reasons for bullying and approaches to dealing with it. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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