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The Doctor by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Mister Smedley would seem to be male. The doctor could be either. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A man is called into his doctor's office for some very bad - and surprising - news. |
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Does My Bum Look Big In This? by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act adult comedy set at a café table. Australian settings but with opportunities for customising to other locations. |
Synopsis | Long-time Aussie friends Donna, Janice and Sharon meet for coffee, prior to Janice flying off to attend her sister's wedding. Their get together is suddenly interrupted with news that the wedding has been called off. |
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The Dog Sitters by Sarah Cowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers. (Could be played by that mix, or by teenagers with make-up!) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
Synopsis | A group of girls invited to house-sit and look after a dog for an evening take the opportunity for an impromptu party, during which there is a problem with the dog... |
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A Dog Walk by Ginny Davis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One music track suggested, to be played alongside speech at a certain point in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy monologue with no set required. |
Synopsis | Ruth outlines the perils of taking a group of dogs walking and the disruptions that can arise out of the idiosyncracies of both animals and owners. |
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Doggy Noire by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are animals. (All literally, some figuratively.) The characters are nominally 4M, 1F, but in the context, there's a lot of flexibility. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in a single setting. Contains adult themes and language (although in the context of dogs, 'bitch' is not necessarily a term of abuse). Noire as in 'bête noire' rather than 'film noir'. (No hard-boiled detectives.) |
Synopsis | Bonzo the enforcer has brought Paulette the Poodle to the bridge, as arranged, but who is being set up for a fall? When Big Fido arrives, it turns out there may not be any winners, since the rats that come with him have grudges of their own. |
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The Dominatrix Solution by Jonathan Edgington Long-listed for 2017 Pint-Sized Plays Writing Competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with adult themes |
Synopsis | George has writer’s block, and resorts to an unconventional solution. He recruits hapless Kim and Laura who discover what his little problem is and in a surprise final twist solve a much bigger problem for him as well. |
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Don't Bury The Banjo by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five speaking roles and two non-speaking pallbearers. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama - with comedy and pathos - with a single kitchen/store room setting. |
Synopsis | Ruth Thwaites is preparing for her husband's funeral, and is delighted her son Jake has come home for it. But Jake's life in the big city isn't all he's made it out to be, and his 'friend' Roiseen has tracked him down to break some big news. |
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Don't Get Me Started... 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 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Poignant comedy monologue set in the aftermath of a party. |
Synopsis | Marilyn, a middle-aged domestic goddess, has an expensive lifestyle to maintain. |
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Don't Mention the Dream by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set, modern realism, character, explores approaches to staging Shakespeare. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's the annual meeting of the Drama Society, but they're a bit thin on the ground this year. Will Russell get his way and produce a period 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' or will Lucy put a spanner in the works? |
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Donegal Calling by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, five off-stage voices. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama in a single set (which needs only furniture). |
Synopsis | Roisin and Johnny, strangers, are thrown together one evening in the busy foyer of a hotel. They share a bottle of wine and conversation brings out major events in their lives. Both had fallen in love - both relationships ended tragically, for very different reasons - but Donegal keeps calling them back. One year later in the same hotel, the same busy foyer, they meet again as friends. More information about past events comes to light - enough to clear the way to give them a future together? |
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