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Finding Zanzibar by Susie Casson
Published: 24 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Written as one male, two female, but playable by any mixture. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with plenty of comedy drawn from the opposing attitudes of two librarians, and a satisfying dramatic ending. |
| Synopsis | Tom's library book has been overdue for a year but now he's summoned up the courage to return it. Surely the library staff will be kind to him? |
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King Mac by Rob Ricards
Published: 19 February 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The witches might be assumed female, but Shakespeare says they have beards (which of course was a joke as well as an insult, since in his theatre company they would have been played by men). |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, having fun with Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
| Synopsis | The three witches are concocting a potion, with the Thane of Cawdor's underwear as the key ingredient. They have a prophecy for King Mac, but will need payment first. |
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The Pink Posy Guide to Writing Romance by Fiona and David Barker
Published: 6 February 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny comedy monologue, satarising (poor) romance writing. |
| Synopsis | Marjorie is giving a talk to prospective writers of romance novels about how to write the more intimate scenes, but has little sexual experience herself and is prone to over-excitement. |
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