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| A Forty-Minute Volpone by Ben Jonson abridged by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. The minimum cast could be achieved by combining the four magistrates into 1 judge and using the boy and clerk as the court officers. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of Ben Jonson's 'Volpone', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes or so.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Volpone is a sly miser. With the aid of his rascally servant, Mosca, he sets out to accumulate more wealth by way of gifts from his gullable acquaintances who think he is ailing and believe that they will be the beneficiaries of his will. Things start to unravel when Volpone sets his sights on Celia, wife of the wealthy merchant, Corvino.
Jacobean comedy, verging on farce. |
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| Forty-Two by Amanda Giles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The voice of the App could be recorded or played live. The angels are written male, but since they are angels this scarcely matters. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for a couple of pieces of furniture, four actors and the gentle voice of a phone app. (British English, using 'lounge' for 'living room' and including slang for a cigarette which might confuse speakers of other varieties of English.) |
| Synopsis | Jemima has just woken up from her meditation cd session to find three strange men in her living room. Well, not men, they're angels, summoned by the cd she has just listened to. They have answers for Jemima, but she won’t like them... |
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| The Four Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements (could be done on an open stage or front-of-curtain). |
| Synopsis | Famine, Pestilence, War and Death meet to plot the demise of mankind - although their manner seems unexpectedly familiar. |
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| Fragrant Friend by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The 'action' takes place in a queue of people in a Post Office, to there are opportunities for non-speaking extras if you so desire. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set or props. |
| Synopsis | Two old comrades meet... and one wishes that they hadn't... |
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| Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
| Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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| Franny and Jonty’s Christmas Cook Off by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. (Set in a kitchen, but only indicated by a table and a couple of chairs.) |
| Synopsis | A charming bon viveur and his once celebrity chef wife are no longer feted by TV companies. To restart her career, Franny has agreed to front a cooking programme for a new streaming channel. After so long away from the limelight, Franny resorts to 'dutch courage' to calm her nerves. |
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Freshly Laid by Frank Gibbons
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a park - simple bench setting. |
| Synopsis | The elderly ladies are catching up with the latest - on hens, ducks, and possible other roostings. |
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Freya's Necklace by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the 'Time For Something New' playwriting festival 2018 at the Bread & Roses Theatre, London. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single (charity shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | Just a normal day in a charity shop? Probably, until Freya the Norse Goddess of Love and War enters on a bit of a mission. |
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The Friday Night Radio Play by Damian Trasler
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a range of ages, a mixture of adults and teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (arguably a light farce), single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | It's an exciting night for the Branston family. The premier of aspiring writer Geoff's radio play is about to be broadcast and the family is gathered to listen. But just as it is about to start, the fuses blow. To ensure that Grandma is not disappointed, the show must go on... |
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| Friendly Bombs by Nicolas Ridley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy short on a single (office) set. |
| Synopsis | The last standing politician (after a wave of scandals and resignations) is not really geared up for a nuclear standoff, as he’s lost the codes. He must find a way out before the general takes over at midnight and fires both the UK’s missiles. |
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