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| First Day In Drama Class by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A small class of students, a teacher and the Principal. (Could be played to age or could all be played by the members of a youth theatre group.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy for youth theatre with a single (classroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | A new drama teacher attempting to establish a rapport with his students uses unorthodox methods which serve only to alienate them. Then the Principal arrives to reveal that all is not what it seems. |
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| First Night Nerves by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | It's first night of a new show and the nerves are showing... |
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The First Rehearsal by Peter Appleton
Chelford Players performance achieved the Adjudicators Special Award at Chelford Drama Festival 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Singular lack of set (which the stage manager indicates by placing chairs around the stage - a process very familiar to some of us). |
| Synopsis | An amateur drama group come together to block out the moves at the first rehearsal of their incomplete script. The dialogue is odd, the plot confusing and the characters get out of hand... just like in every AmDram group! |
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| For My Final Act by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character comedy. Single set (simple interior). Two out-of-the-ordinary props in the form of ventriloquist's dolls. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The Accolades is a retirement home for stars of stage and screen, but just because they're in a retirement home, doesn't mean they're out of the spotlight. Rene and Judy are competing for the headline in their joint Edinburgh festival show, but they don’t know all the details yet. |
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| From Bad to Worse by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (meeting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Potts Rhoding Amateur Theatrical Society meet to discuss the local newspaper review of their latest production. Everyone’s a critic as the committee meeting falls into disarray, accusations fly, and a few home truths are laid bare. |
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| The Game is a Foote by Peter Robbie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for a song to be played at opening and close. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A wordplay-heavy one-act comedy on a single sitting room set. |
| Synopsis | Lord and Lady Cardigan of Punaway Manor receive an unexpected visitor - Inspector Foote of the Yard, investigating the baffling murder of the young bank clerk, Clark Clarke. The real Inspector Foote announces himself from the audience and the case is brought to a shuddering denouement with the arrest of the ‘real’ criminal. |
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| Glitz by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama on a single theatre dressing room set. |
| Synopsis | When a former Hollywood star attempts a stage combeack, the young reporter sent to interview her finds the actress determined to put things right with the family she left behind in pursuit of fame and fortune. |
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| The Grilling by Barry Lambert |
| 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 | A comedy sketch for two people and a pub table. |
| Synopsis | Flamboyant actor Gregory Walton sits in a pub hoping to be recognised by fans. He is approached by Ms Price, but discovers she is no fan when she starts to interrogate him about his past activities. |
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| The Guests by Carolyn Drury |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Feeling the financial pinch after a generous Christmas, pensioner and former child movie star Mary opens her house to some visiting actors. Two are pleasant enough characters, but Louise is more of a handful. |
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| Hack by Andy Haynes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, sending-up the pretentions of a writer and his agent. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Harold has written another play, just in time for a meeting with his agent Morty, who's dropped round to read him the reviews of his last play. It's not good news, but is Harold a man to be defeated by bad reviews? Maybe. |
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