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| Careless Talk by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
| Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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| Caring for Alice by Marc Brosnan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Alice is in a care home and she doesn't like it. Her niece comes on a rare visit, asking for financial help and Alice makes a counter-offer - she'll front the money if her niece takes her in. |
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| Carnival by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama, in which the characters are really unsure of their future... |
| Synopsis | It's the day before a huge, unstoppable cataclysm. Some are singing, some are crying, some are partying. Moby and Jill are spending the evening with their friends Corinna and Daval. If the world doesn't end tomorrow, it will never be the same - so why not sing and be with your friends? |
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| Carpe Diem by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single (furniture only) set. |
| Synopsis | Joan believes her life is practically over now she has been placed in a retirement home. Longer-term residents Agnes and Teddy try to convince her that life is still worth living and age isn't a barrier. |
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| Carrie's Lions by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father. |
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| A Case of Good Intentions by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone. |
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| Cash in the Attic by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
| Synopsis | It's another edition of 'Cash in the Attic' and the team find some amazing items in Herr Schutzstaffel's house. |
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| The Cast Is Die by Peter Robbie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play with a great self-referential twist on drama about drama. It has some silly comedy while retaining a strong thriller element, and the dialogue is snappy and characterful. |
| Synopsis | Five members of an amateur drama group meet to plan their next production. Tensions, bitchiness and backstabbing abound. Their script is about five members of a drama group, who meet to plan their next production - a meeting which ends in madness and murder. Can the cast bring life to the script or does, as it seems, the script have a life of its own? |
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| Casual-ty by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak... |
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| The Cat and the Dog by Victor Callen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | This is, essentially, a talking heads piece, but since the heads are those of a cat and a dog, the comedy could be enhanced by costume or make-up. (Some animal content.) |
| Synopsis | A simple conversation piece between a cat and a dog about the relative merits and disadvantages of their places in life and the household. |
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