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The Right One by Ged Quayle Published: 17 July 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama, tinged with black comedy in a single, simple set (another starring role for the park bench.) |
Synopsis | An unlikely couple meet at dawn in a park. One of them is a murderer, looking for a potential victim... |
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Grimm Sisters by Gill Medway Published: 27 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny sketch with some self-referential fourth wall-breaking humour and a playfully feminist twist on the Brothers Grimm. |
Synopsis | It's 1812, and Johanna and Wilhelmina Grimm - under their pseudonyms of Jacob and Wilhelm - are hard at work on their latest tale. If only their characters weren't so hell-bent on sabotage, and if only their moustaches didn't look so suspiciously fake. |
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Alternative Life by Vladislav Nenchev Published: 21 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A two-handed satirical comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Chiropractor Vicki rushes to the chemist to get some medicine for an injured patient. She finds her usual pharmacist has been replaced by homeopathic practitioner Bert, whose suggestions for alternative medicines don't impress her. |
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De-Friend by Shari Gledhill Published: 20 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 15-minute monologue with an insightful and humourous take on social media addiction, leading to a nicely grim punchline. |
Synopsis | Brian is a middle-aged man trying to navigate the world of social media. His mood turns from enthusiastic to thrilled to devastated. Someone has de-friended him and he is desperate to work out who it is. |
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Brace! Brace! Brace! by Susie Casson Published: 19 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy skit set on the ubiquitous park bench. |
Synopsis | Two strangers meet on a park bench - Jo, who is trying a novel new approach to get over a fear of flying, and Sam, who consequently loses a sandwich. |
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No Idea by Charles Dennison Published: 19 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a farmhouse kitchen. |
Synopsis | Fred and Mavis are enjoying a quiet morning in their farmhouse, when a visitor calls in the hopes of finding some antiques of value to purchase. He doesn't really fancy the non-matching candlesticks, but he's very taken with a painting left by the farmer's grandfather. |
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Truant by Gill Medway Published: 13 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama for two and a bench. |
Synopsis | Fourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom. |
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A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti Published: 21 May 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood Published: 13 May 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cast are written as 1M, 2F, but with minor adaptations, this could be changed to any combination that fits the plot. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy skit set in a doctor's office. |
Synopsis | Jessica takes her husband to the doctor with a medical emergency - he won't stop speaking in Shakespeare quotes. Sadly, the doctor is a Shakespeare fan and finds it more alluring than annoying. |
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The Staff Room by Juliet Devon Published: 13 May 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only). |
Synopsis | Unable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties. |
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