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Birds, Bees and Gooseberry Bushes by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One adult and two teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch, no set requirements, simple props |
Synopsis | A father struggles to overcome his embarrassment long enough to explain the facts of life to his teenage son while they are on holiday. |
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The Birth of Womankind by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch with minimal set requirements, just a few props. Vaguely 'sci-fi' genre. |
Synopsis | In a society in which all men have been wiped out, the survivors try to come to grips with their roles. |
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Birthright by Christine Steenfeldt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play in a single setting. |
Synopsis | An original storyline suggesting a question mark over Shakespeare's birthplace in a short dramatic comedy, with a twisting plot! |
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Births, Deaths and Marriages by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients in the second act. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in three acts (each in a different setting). |
Synopsis | A family saga told through three comic episodes. Laughter turns into tension in all three plays as family frictions and heartaches unfold. Each of the three components is also available separately: Arrival Oncology Anniversary |
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Bit of a Gossip by Frank Gibbons Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are descibed as 'a couple of mature ladies'. Make your own mind up as to what constitutes maturity! |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Minimal set. Contains cream cakes. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A couple of ladies set the world to rights - largely by putting everyone else down. |
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A Bit of a Problem by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Mary should be old enough to be Adam's mother. |
Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An unusual, full length play with strong language and adult situations, in two split settings. |
Synopsis | Against their better judgement, Mike and Adam have brought their wives to see the local drama group's play. But the plot of a man sleeping with his brother's wife hits a bit close to home and a whole surprising bunch of secrets come tumbling out in one busy evening. |
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A Bit of a Turn by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch on a minimal café set. |
Synopsis | Maureen and her Aunt Vera are discussing Brenda's latest accident. |
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A Bit of Light Froth by Kelsey Gray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 with a single (coffee shop) setting. |
Synopsis | A customer’s attempt to get a cup of coffee is increasingly frustrated by the superior attitude of the barista. |
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Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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Black Combe by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, creating some tensions, with a single set. |
Synopsis | Three separate meetings take place on the same day, in the bar of the Duck and Feathers. Each of them, in their own way, affects the life of the landlord, Jimmy. Is it true that the clouds over Black Combe are bringing him bad luck? |
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