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Snow White and The Three Bears by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A rhyming comedy, one act drama, of a combined - Snow White runs away and meets the Three Bears story. |
Synopsis | Disgruntled at not being the fairest in the land, and the prospect of marrying Prince Ken, Snow White flees the castle and happens upon a cottage in the woods... The rest is... just as unexpected! |
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So Long, Prince Charming by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Max is written male, but the writer suggests that other interpretations would be possible. One of the female characters is a non-speaking cameo. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. Genre? Well, George, the central character, wants this to be a romantic comedy, but Ingrid has other ideas. Single cafe setting. |
Synopsis | George is a romantic, and determined to overcome Ingrid's reluctance with a muffin, his natural charm and a detailed explanation of his good points. Ingrid is in the cafe for the peace and quiet, but after a few minutes of George's company, she's ready to leave... with Max. |
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Soccer School by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Additional extra cast members may be added in. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a classroom. |
Synopsis | A privileged 'fly-on-the-wall' view of a classroom at Premiership Soccer School... |
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Socks by Rosemary Frisino Toohey 3rd Place, the Ian Wishart Quaich in the 2023 Edinburgh round of the Scottish Community Drama Association's One-Act Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four principal characters plus an off-stage female voice (which could be pre-recorded). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy play. Single set - the inside of a clothes dryer at a laundromat! ( A delightful contribution to an under-used sub-genre of costume drama!) |
Synopsis | A group of single socks discuss their plight. Should they attempt escape? Why have they been abandoned? Don't humans know that socks are the cornerstone of civilization? A tale of abandonment, rejection and hope in the confines of a clothes dryer. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of clean laundry must be in want of the correct number of socks. |
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Some People by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy thriller. Single (hotel lobby) set, made complicated by the presence of a functioning lift (or, at least, a functioning set of lift doors). Contains mild swearing (and eccentricity). |
Synopsis | Things are busy enough at the Lucky Star Hotel, what with the lift being almost as unpredictable as the guests and staff, but now there are two jewel thieves returning to claim the loot they buried years before... under the kitchen floor! |
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Someday I'll Find You by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Main two characters in late middle age |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy set in the office or waiting room of a retirement village in America. |
Synopsis | Jack and Helen meet by chance at a retirement village some forty years after he abandoned her for her best friend. They discuss what has happened to them in the intervening forty years and whilst nothing is resolved, who knows what their future will be? |
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Something for the Weekend by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single-set one-act comedy set in the 1960s in a hairdressing salon. |
Synopsis | Charlie is desperately trying to breathe new life into his ailing hairdressing business. Much to the disgust of his stylists, Sharon and Maggie his solution is to use the vacant store room as a massage parlour. All goes well until an unfortunate incident brings the police to his door. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Something for the Weekend' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Something of a Stir by Joseph A. Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy, single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Dora is expecting her friend Paula for a cup of tea and a chat, but Paula brings Maisie Day, a card reader who Dora is convinced is a charlatan. Can Dora pull off a little tea leaf trickery of her own to put Maisie in her place? |
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Something Off The Menu by Rupert Haigh |
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 | Off-beat ten-minute comedy play. Cafe setting (little more than a table and chair). |
Synopsis | The customer is always right, but this one isn't quite sure what he wants. The waitress has plenty to offer, but he's only interested in things that aren't on the menu. After a side trip to the cafe storeroom, he reveals his true identity, but the Waitress is a match for him. |
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Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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