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| All The Little Dickie Birds by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. Contains some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Richard Finchley is a bird enthusiast who fanatically monitors the garden birds on his computer, but when a new neighbour arrives next door with a pet cat the feathers begin to fly. The Finchleys have an adopted son and a teenage cleaner who get caught up in the chaos. |
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| All the President's Turds by Bernard Scahill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male, adjustment would be easy. There are nominally five reporters in the White House press corps, but their lines could easily be combined. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play - a parody of war-mongering and political coalition building. |
| Synopsis | The President of the USA needs a distraction as he comes up for re-election, so he 'finds' a new Al-Qaeda base, but he needs a coalition to lead. Bob and Jay can only find one country to go along with it - the newly formed Turdistan. |
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All This Time... by Jack Hutchinson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easy-to-stage comedy sketch, requiring only two chairs. Takes audition gossip to a new level of cattiness. |
| Synopsis | Two ageing amateur dramatic divas have auditioned for the same role in this year’s pantomime. As they await the director's decision, they snipe and argue with each other over past glories. |
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| All Washed Up by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A single set, one act play. |
| Synopsis | Three survivors of a light plane crash are stranded on a tiny island. Walter is calm but concerned, Susan is desperate to escape, and Lucy seems to have no idea what's going on. She says Harry will rescue them, but where - and who - is Harry? |
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| All Your Future Endeavors by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Lynn has a playing age appropriate to someone who has put in 20 years at the workplace. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute bitter-sweet comedy. Single (implied) workplace setting. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Lynn's being let go after twenty years with the company. Downsizing, they call it, but even though they've sent Joseph the security guard to escort her off the premises, she's not going quietly. |
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| All's Not Well That Ends Well by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Written as a mix of children and adults, but could all be played by youth. The Head Teacher and Mrs Bloss are written as female, but could be changed to male. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set on a school hall stage. |
| Synopsis | Despite a number of cast members being missing, Drama Teacher Nikki is pressing on with her rehearsal of 'All’s Well...' Unfortunately, she also has to contend with pupils sent to her for detention, the cleaner, and the Head. |
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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| All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cast are written as 1M, 2F, but with minor adaptations, this could be changed to any combination that fits the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit set in a doctor's office. |
| Synopsis | Jessica takes her husband to the doctor with a medical emergency - he won't stop speaking in Shakespeare quotes. Sadly, the doctor is a Shakespeare fan and finds it more alluring than annoying. |
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| The Allergic Audience by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-hander one act comedy with a single theatre setting. |
| Synopsis | Aspiring actress Pandora is resting at the moment (a permanent state for her), and has volunteered to run front of house in a small theatre where she encounters Barbara, the regular front of house manager. The show is ‘At Home with Charlotte’, a ghastly historically inaccurate portrayal of Charlotte Bronte. No-one turns up so the lack of audience gives the women plenty of time to explore their likes and prejudices. |
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An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
| Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
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