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Talk Show by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. (The doubling figure assumes that the Videotones (three female vocalists) are a recording rather than a live act!) |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set (a simple TV talk show studio bounded by dressing room and green room). Includes mild swearing and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Bunter Smiles is having a bad day. He's just found his wife cheating on him with an American actor, who just happens to be the main guest on his talk show. Little does he know how bad the other guests are going to be... |
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The Talky Bits by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Many of the characters are written with a specific gender, but most can be changed! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of ten comedy sketches requiring little in the way of set or props (the most complex sketch requires a table, chairs and a few pieces of paper.) Most could be run front-of curtain. |
Synopsis | Ten comedy sketches with a theatrical theme, designed to be interspersed between other material in a drama and dance showcase. The sketches cover the theatrical process from pitching a show concept through to first night nerves. Most of the sketches are available individually. This collection is available at a discount to the sum of the individual prices. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Ted by Steven Stack Runner-up, 2018 Maine Principals' Association Drama Festival (Production by Central High School) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A quirky one act play, retelling the tale of Rumplestiltskin. A companion (same style, different tale) to Hansel and Gretel... and Sadie (Of Edible Houses, Risky Bargains, and Other Grimm Happenings) |
Synopsis | This re-telling of the story has all the traditional aspects at first, but departs from the usual by dispensing with the royal marriage and the first-born part. A very off-beat comedy. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Teenage Christmas Carol by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Very flexible casting - there are 11 narrators, who could ultimately be condensed to one role, and other doubling would be possible. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play in a mix of verse (from the narrators) and prose (from the rest of the cast). No set requirements, simple props. |
Synopsis | The great granddaughter of Ebenezer Scrooge needs to be taught the same lessons he learned - and in a very similar fashion! |
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Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Voices On And Off by Pat Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The Inner Voices characters may be offstage, but also could appear on stage. Claudia and Percy have actions rather than words. The Chorus do not speak or sing. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with quick scenes, and two simple settings. |
Synopsis | Terry and Ceri are members of the local amateur dramatic society and soon become attracted to each other. Their blossoming relationship is helped, although sometimes hindered, by their inner voices which continue throughout the action. And then there is Claudia... |
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Wild Ride by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters span four generations of a family. Ages range from teenage to retired. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play. Fast-paced comic mystery, featuring a murderously dysfunctional family. Single interior set (modern home). |
Synopsis | The Wild family theatre has been a gold-mine, and it seems that the family members will do anything to get their hands on it, including various forms of deceit, forgery and even murder. Everyone seems to be scheming against everyone else - but who fired the fatal shot, and who is the strange policeman who comes to investigate? |
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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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The Winter's Tale [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The 24 roles could be played by 6M, 4F or 5M, 5F. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy-drama. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | King Leontes of Sicilia, suspecting his wife Hermione of cheating on him with the King of Bohemia, has her imprisoned and her newborn baby sent far away. When Hermione dies in custody, Leontes is left without an heir. But fifteen years later in Bohemia, the abandoned princess Perdita has a royal suitor. (Includes Shakespeare's most famous stage direction.) |
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