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| Extra Cream by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, two-handed play, with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Housewife Lillian has a milkman Steve - who has called to respond to the note she left for him. In an intriguing interplay between the two, the contents of the note are gradually revealed, as sexual tension ebbs to and fro across the kitchen table. |
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| Extra Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters could be female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A student is into the last couple of minutes of his exam time when the new invigilator takes over. Despite exam conditions, the student seems determined to talk, and even test the invigilator on his mathematical skills. |
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| Extraction by S. P. Franksson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fast-paced one-act comedy (somewhere between thriller and farce). |
| Synopsis | Dentist John and his assistant and lover Alice accidentally kill their patient, but when they discover the man was carrying a huge amount of cash, they plot to hide the body and keep it for themselves. Complications arise when Alice's junkie boyfriend shows up, followed by John's suspicious wife. |
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| An Eye for an Eye by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single set (prison cell with practical door). Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | James Nash is awaiting trial for the murder of his father. The horrific details of the crime have shocked the nation, and Nash has been offered lots of money for his story. But he chooses to tell it to a couple from his local paper, for a pittance given to charity. What is his story? |
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| Eye Phone 64 by John Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act futuristic drama with a single (studio apartment) set. |
| Synopsis | In the not too distant future, Nokia lives with his android butler. A mobile phone salesman arrives to update Nokia's phone - with devastating results. |
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| Facebook Anonymous by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit. Minimal set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | It's the first meeting of the Facebook Anonymous group, and the members nervously share their tragic stories, only to find that the Counselor may have a bigger problem than they do. |
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| Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play which might, because it treats the same subject in a variety of ways, be viewed as a series of sketches. Minimal setting (a pair of chairs, representing a car). |
| Synopsis | A group of alternative endings to the story of Bonnie and Clyde, to be used in no particular order. A comic treatment of a serious event, for three actors. |
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| The Facts of Life by Mark Niel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. 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 in which the audience is cast as an embarrassed teenager!. Single set (in theory a living room, but in practice this can be minimal). |
| Synopsis | Some hands-on parents dealing with an embarrassing discovery. Well, if their son wants to learn about sex, then they'll tell him everything. In fact, better than that... |
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| The Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Ravenscar (one of two fictional characters) is written male but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatisation of the true story of the Cottingley fairies. |
| Synopsis | Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, now elderly ladies, recount to two investigators the events that took place in Cottingley in 1917, when as young girls they took photographs of fairies. |
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| Fairy Dust Up by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a song to be played over the opening and closing of the sketch. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short comedy monologue. No set required. |
| Synopsis | Olivia is in the dressing room of a small theatre, contemplating her future as a panto fairy. |
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