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The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The voice of God could be a recording (as it so often is). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play (adapted from 'The Diary of Adam Eve' by Mark Twain. Single set (representing the Garden of Eden and what lay beyond), simple props. |
Synopsis | Alone in the Garden of Eden, Adam is bored and, though he doesn't realise it, lonely. Of course, God has the answer... What follows is told through the diaries of those involved. |
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Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office. |
Synopsis | This is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'. |
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Doctor Sleep by Nicholas Richards |
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 comedy skit. The setting is a doctor's surgery - with the minimum of decor needed to convey that information, so could even be done front-of-curtain. No specific props required. |
Synopsis | Mrs James needs some help with her insomnia, and Doctor Barlow needs her to go home so he can begin his evening. Nurse Popplewell is doing her best to help them both. |
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The Earthquake Drill by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | At a meeting of the Health and Safety committee, a demonstration of the earthquake drill is not quite what was expected. |
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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play which might, because it treats the same subject in a variety of ways, be viewed as a series of sketches. Minimal setting (a pair of chairs, representing a car). |
Synopsis | A group of alternative endings to the story of Bonnie and Clyde, to be used in no particular order. A comic treatment of a serious event, for three actors. |
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Fantasy Games by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two children and their mother, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit. Single (minimal) set, but would be best costumed. |
Synopsis | Two teenage online gaming addicts are hassled to do their daily chores by their mother. |
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Fast and Furious by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A customer, a helpdesk operator and a voiceover (which could be recorded) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch requiring a couple of desks. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A computer user tries to get help with a technical problem. |
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Fight for the Future by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Pruitt is written female, gender reassignment should be possible in her case. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short science-fiction play about time travel. Bare stage and just one prop - a piece of paper. That's all. Thousands of years of technological innovation leading to just one piece of paper. (Give or take the time capsule.) |
Synopsis | The first ever time traveller journeys to the future and discovers a world very different to the one he imagined... |
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Final Motions by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.) |
Synopsis | Doctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure. |
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