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| Are You New Here? by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. All roles can be male or female (names can be changed to suit the male/female balance of the cast.) The number of roles could be expanded by giving the children fewer lines each. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. Two very simple sets - Schoolroom and Police Station with no specific requirements for either. |
| Synopsis | Three aliens must complete a report on earth, so they infiltrate a school to avoid the local Alien Abduction unit of the police, but must also run the gauntlet of a by a power-crazed Deputy Head! |
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Armed Robbery For Dummies by Paul R. Roman
Performance by One Shot Theatre won the Adjudicator's shield at the Warwickshire One Act Plays festival 2010 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three live characters and a corpse. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play with a single set and very black humour. |
| Synopsis | Frank needs a change and thinks armed robbery is the way to go. He consults with his recently paroled friend, but the first attempt goes wrong and he ends up with a dead neighbour on his hands. So he needs to get some quick lessons in body disposal... |
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| Around The Fridge In Eighty Calories by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy monologue for a woman who is larger than she thinks she should be. |
| Synopsis | Kate contemplates changes to her weekly shopping list since starting her latest slimming group. |
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| Arrivals by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama. |
| Synopsis | Can there be a more boring place to spend time than the arrivals lounge at Leeds Airport? Or is it instead a snapshot of the rich tapestry of life, highlighting everything from love and friendship to grief, disappointment, and deceit? |
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| An Arrowing Experience by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is an arrow. (Presumably the acting style required is pointed - even barbed - but essentially wooden!) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy monologue, no set, no props. Might even be regarded as educational (English Key Stage 3 history topic 'The Normans') |
| Synopsis | The famous arrow that took King Harold in the eye at Hastings gives his (or her) side of the story. A humorous monologue with comedy accent. |
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| Art and Treasures by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Little required in the way of set (a table and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | An antiques valuation event (run as a village hall fundraiser) has a number of unexpected outcomes. |
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| The Art of Nero by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All written male (on the grounds of history), but that isn't essential to the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Roman romp for kids. Single location (preferably decorated according to the taste of the emperor Nero). |
| Synopsis | As Nero constructs the Golden House amongst the Ashes of burnt Rome, three friends hatch a plot to end the tyranny and, more importantly, the dreadful singing, acting, poetry and painting of the mad emperor. Sadly, Nero's 'Art' defeats them all. |
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| Art's Gallery by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy drama |
| Synopsis | Art lover Amy takes philistine Jeff to a small art gallery to give him an appreciation of the value of art. Gallery owner Art soon dispels any pretensions Amy has and the tables are turned. |
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| As They Like It by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light one act drama with a 17th Century Inn setting. |
| Synopsis | William Shakespeare is struggling to get the approval of his company, who are adamant that the first draft of the 'Scottish Play' is lacking in a number of key characters. His friends are quite persuasive and he is encouraged by barmaid Meg. So the bard relents and the play - as we now know it - is born. |
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| Asking For Trouble by Pat Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short topical play with simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Two girls, approaching their sixteenth birthdays, go out and are refused entry to a club. Against their will, an older guy gets in to share their taxi and there is an unwanted incident. Was how they were dressed a contributory factor? |
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