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The Brotherhood of Big Ben by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for three actors, no set required. |
Synopsis | Jack Steeple wants to join the secretive Brotherhood of Big Ben, but first he must undergo the initiation ceremony. |
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Can We Stop It There? by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play/sketch. Bare stage set (could even be done front of tabs). Contains some swearing. |
Synopsis | A play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about... er... well, that's not important really. Can I try that again from my cue? |
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The Care Home by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | Poignant short vignette in which Harriet, a young care-home worker, meets the retired Georgie on a park bench. |
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Career Change by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Written as 2 male and 1 female, but could be reversed with minor changes. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy parodying religious logic. It might offend some of the more devout members of audiences, but they'll get over it. |
Synopsis | Wally visits the local vicar to say he is considering a career change and thinks he might like to become a god. The vicar is understandably sceptical at first, but is eventually won over. |
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Careless Talk by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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The Cat and the Dog by Victor Callen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | This is, essentially, a talking heads piece, but since the heads are those of a cat and a dog, the comedy could be enhanced by costume or make-up. (Some animal content.) |
Synopsis | A simple conversation piece between a cat and a dog about the relative merits and disadvantages of their places in life and the household. |
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The Cat Club by Dominique Vaughan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are cats (anthropomorphised and inhabiting a very human environment). |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play - a comedy and character piece with a single bar-room set. |
Synopsis | A group of cats meet up at their regular haunt to share some sad news about one of their number. They remember her fondly (in the main) and decide how they will go on. |
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Caught Out by Steve Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single, simple set. |
Synopsis | Two burglars break into Mrs. Forester-Brown's House, but their noise attracts attention. Meanwhile, Mrs. Forester-Brown's husband has gone missing... |
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The Cautionary Tale of Georgie Porgie by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The narrotor's lines could be split amongst several people. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming morality play for kids. |
Synopsis | The familiar tale of Georgie Porgie, whose bullying ways lead him to a grave end, is brought to life in an innovative manner. |
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A Cautionary Tale by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | A different take on the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, here showing the Rich Man (Ozymandias) arriving in torment, only for a fellow sufferer to point out the hopelessness of his situation. |
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