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When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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White Knight by P. B. Stenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An engaging horror drama which playfully explores the theme of gender-based assumptions. Some nicely written dialogue with an edge of dark comedy. |
Synopsis | Ash is walking home from the pub when he passes a woman, Christina, sitting alone. He stops to check she is alright, but his assumptions about her are way off. |
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Who Ate All the Pies? by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue (prose) with no set requirements and no props. |
Synopsis | Our heroine has put up with a lot in her marriage, most recently her slob of a husband moving in with her best friend Eileen. But when Eileen announces she can't stand him anymore, the pair realise there’s only one other option... |
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Whose Baby? by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (hospital waiting room) setting. Adult themes. |
Synopsis | Three pregnant women from very different backgrounds have come for a routine check-up. As they wait to be seen, they discuss their various experiences whilst conceiving. One of them goes into labour, with shocking results. |
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Why Homo Erectus Died Out by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Optional gender for the Presenter role |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy play, with a single simple setting. |
Synopsis | Professor Anthony presents his imaginative theory as to why Homo-Erectus died out, as we watch the interaction between male and female played out in mime - and Ugs - before our very eyes. |
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Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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Wink by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy. Single simple set (just a table and two chairs to simulate a small café ). |
Synopsis | Ted is waiting nervously for his 'wink' - a sort of pre-date date. His nerves are soothed by a helpful waitress who lets him in on some of the mysteries of womankind. When his wink doesn't even stay for coffee, Ted finds love anyway... |
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A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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