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We Have To Talk by Don Lowry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain. |
Synopsis | Three relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons. |
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Welcome to Paradise Road by Brian Coyle Best Script in Festival - Page to Stage Theatre Festival, Liverpool (2016) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A satirical thriller with a set alternating between an office and a living room. |
Synopsis | In a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, a woman’s partner has disappeared. She is visiting her neighbour, head of the local Neighbourhood Watch, to find out if she’s heard anything about his disappearance. Will her neighbour help her or is this the person she should be most afraid of? |
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A Well Organised Rehearsal by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. 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 with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | The first rehearsal can sometimes be a nervous moment for a new cast... |
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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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You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional! |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Sir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting. |
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