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Funeral for the Cat by B. G. Craig |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Elizabeth is written female, but could be played male (and renamed Elliot). |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A good mix of emotional drama and dark but gentle comedy. Easy to stage on a single living room set. US English. |
Synopsis | Judy, an elderly widow, is holding a funeral for her beloved and recently departed cat. Her daughter and granddaughter are alarmed to find that, since a pet coffin was too expensive, Miss Mopsy is lying on the coffee table. |
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Future Gazing by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | A short sketch |
Synopsis | Ernie thinks he can see the future through a portable crystal ball - which looks suspiciously like a glass marble. Fred has his doubts. |
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The Gala Programme by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, one could easily be added, as the protagonists refer to the reactions of crowd. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, adapting a story by Saki. Single set (as simple as you like). A comedy, if you have Saki's very dark sense of humour. |
Synopsis | A sufragette rebellion is projected back to Roman times. The Romans, needless to say, did not have very modern attitudes to female participation in the political process, and the emperor's solution to the problem is calculated to please the crowd of the circus maximus rather than twenty-first century sensibilities! |
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Gallery by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Structurally a two-act play (but classified as a one-act on the grounds of length), single art gallery setting, satirising thepretentions of the commercial fine arts world. |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous Art Dealer has a young artist foisted on him by a work programme, but soon turns the situation to his advantage when a misunderstanding makes the artist an overnight sensation. |
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The Generation Game by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) a mixture of children and their grandparents, intended to be played by a cast of children. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script with positions for two others in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids with songs. Single simple set. |
Synopsis | A gang of oldies in a home refuse to grow old gracefully, to the delight of their grandchildren and the despair of the matron. |
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The Gentlemen of the Press by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short humorous costume drama. Two simple sets. |
Synopsis | During the Napoleonic wars, two junior officers are sent out to find men to fill the complement of their ship. One of them has other motives. |
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Geraldine's Fine Art by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch which turns on the nature of the props! From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | An antique dealer visits a car boot sale, hoping to snatch a bargain from under the nose of a stall-holder. |
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Germs by Andy Johnson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, parodying Star Trek. |
Synopsis | When three known germs sneak past the laughable security at the Nasal Air airport and start to wreak havoc in the body, it's up to James D Burk and the hardy crew of the Starship Endocrine to stop them! But could this be one mission too far, with rogue cleaners, a lost tour and the sinister Germinator getting in on the act? Coming soon to an immune system near you! |
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Get Staffed by Frank Gibbons Cyril V Hines Trophy (Outstanding Actress) awarded to Stella Hutchinson playing Gaynor in the Droylsden Little Theatre's production, GMDF one-act festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters (with playing ages of 18 to 25) and an offstage Australian female voice. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comical farce. Single (hotel reception) set. |
Synopsis | It's opening day for the newest Buzz Hotel, but things are not going well. Their first diners have come down with suspected food poisoning, and their only room booking is probably a hoax - surely it's not the real Kylie Minogue? |
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Getting Away From It All by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, single set (minimal indication of a travel agent's office). |
Synopsis | A tricky customer finally gets a holiday he's never tried before, but it's somewhere awfully familiar. |
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