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| Musical Genius by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. Minimal set requirements, but requires a few musical instruments. |
| Synopsis | A man walks into a music shop looking for the perfect instrument on which to express himself. |
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| Mutants Anonymous by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short quirky comedy sketch with a simple single setting in a meeting room. |
| Synopsis | At a meeting of Mutants Anonymous, new member Tim who has suddenly acquired super powers, is sceptical as the other members outline their questionable status as mutants. |
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| My Angel by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length romantic comedy in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Mark's life has become intolerable following bankruptcy, marriage breakdown, ill health and the shame of having been caught shoplifting. He is resolved to end it all, though his apprentice guardian angel stops him and helps him put his life back together. But when everything is fixed, and Mark goes back to his wife, is it the kind of eternity Mark and his angel would choose? |
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| My Blue Heaven by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, verging on farce. (The subject matter is directed at adults!) |
| Synopsis | Brian has used his redundancy money to fund a new business, and, as a result, he and his wife Melanie are Nouveau Riches. What Melanie doesn't know is that Brian's wealth comes from an offshoot of the photography club - providing videos for, shall we say, a specialist market. However, when the friends they invite round for dinner try to look at Brian and Melanie's holiday video, they get more than they bargained for... |
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| My Favourite Things by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Three settings interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes. |
| Synopsis | Justin has achieved his long held ambition to direct 'The Sound of Music' for his local amateur society. His casting ideas and unorthodox audition techniques ruffle a lot of feathers and his personal life is devastated after a medical consultation. He and his partner, Gerald manage to deal with the difficulties they both have to face with help from an unexpected source. |
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| My Friend Ed by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an offstage (female) voice. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script suggests the use of two songs for Karaoke! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short comedy in a single set. (Written for a living room with practical doors, but the set could be simplified to just furniture.)
American English. |
| Synopsis | Linda really wishes her husband John would change his ways. At least she thinks so, right up to the moment when he does change his ways, thanks to his disturbing new friend Ed. Just what have the two men been up to? |
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My Hero by Tony Domaille
Winner of the Pint Sized Plays (Script Slam) Best Script competition 2020. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Domestic superhero skit.
(Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
| Synopsis | Superhero Man and Superhero Woman's marriage is on the rocks because Superhero man takes her for granted. So, when fantastic displays of heroics aren't enough to keep love alive, what is? |
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| My Sister, The Thief by Mary Stone |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two characters are written as female but can be played as male - this would of course require a change in title, which the author is happy for you to do. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play ideal for teenage performers, with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Ally has always looked up to her big sister, Tee, the hockey star, the brightest pupil, so generous with gifts. But now she’s discovered that Tee has been stealing those presents, not buying them. |
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A Mystery Tour by Colin Calvert
Production by Plockton ADS won the Statuette and Stage Presentation Salver at the South West Ross District SCDA festival, 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. George the driver is written male, but could be changed easily to make it an all female cast. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, set on a coach (which can be as simple as a couple of rows of chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's the fifth annual Flower Arranging society mystery tour, and they've been out to Blockley Castle, just like every other year. But this year there's an escaped elephant, a missing kleptomaniac, the discovery of a mistress and the most tragic secret yet... |
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| Nailing The Audition by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the auditionee, Wayne, is written male, a female equivalent could be substituted. (This requires a little work because otherwise you end up with a production of Shakespeare's Juliet and Juliet, a tragedy too far ahead of its time to be staged.) |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | Finding the best cast for your show is always a problem... |
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