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Monkeying Around by Peter May |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (zoo enclosure) setting. |
Synopsis | Two of the older residents of the zoo’s monkey enclosure are watching the public from a high tree branch. |
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A Monster Catch by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute comedy sketch. No particular set requirements. |
Synopsis | Two fishermen discuss a new theory on the nature of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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The Monster of Morgrave Manor by Louise Bramley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play on a manor house set. |
Synopsis | McClutchy the butler is enjoying a semi-retirement in Morgrave Manor, but his peace is shattered by new arrivals. Elaine is the niece of the previous owner, and has inherited the Manor. Old secrets are about to be uncovered. |
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Monty's Barrow by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in two acts (by which we mean it's reasonably short but divided into two sections!) for performance by kids. No specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | Self-confessed serial failure Monty sets out to make his way in life, equipped only with his sole asset, a rickety wheelbarrow. He enjoys initial success in thwarting a band of robbers and thus becomes enough of a celebrity to get a job with a travelling circus. Things quickly go downhill and he leaves the circus in ruins and loses his barrow. The barrow indirectly falls into the hands of the vengeful robbers who use it in the commission of a crime. Monty finds himself implicated, on trial for his life and desperately hoping that his long-absent Guardian Angel will turn up and save him. |
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More Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Old Mother Hubbard is nominally female, but could be played as a pantomime dame (by a male). |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, parodying the style of Raymond Chandler, with Puss-in-Boots as a hard-boiled detective. No set requirements. The only listed prop is a handkerchief. |
Synopsis | There is consternation at court! The famed slipper belonging to Princess Cinderella has been stolen! The Palace guards suspect the identity of the thief but do they have the right man? Enter private investigator extraordinaire, Puss In Boots to solve the baffling crime! A short crime story in film noir style, set in Nursery Land! |
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Mortal Fears by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A husband and wife. No particular age. |
Run Time | Around 1 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short (slightly dark) comedy sketch. In theory a domestic setting, but no real requirement for set or props. Requires some sound effects. |
Synopsis | Geoff, a rather neurotic hypochondriac discusses his latest symptoms with his wife, Susan. |
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Mother of the Bride by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a rhyming monologue or a piece for a cast of five! No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | A mother of four (unwed) daughters bewails the lack of matrimonial bliss in her family. |
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Motor Mouth by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be either |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, requiring something to represent a dentist's chair. Family-friendly, light-hearted humour. Would fit easily into a community revue evening or an event of similar tone. |
Synopsis | A man shows-up for a dental appointment only to find that his usual dentist is participating in a government-sponsored job swap... |
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Moving With The Times by Jennifer Garthwright |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.) |
Synopsis | Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage. |
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Mr. Willoughby by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch (simple set, simple props) featuring a switchback conversation and corn circles! |
Synopsis | An Alien Abductee is interviewed by a sceptical journalist, providing some surprising answers. |
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