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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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Volunteers by Hilary Mackelden
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. A variety of ages, with the principals at the older end. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Single charity shop set. Contains a few very mild swear-words. |
| Synopsis | Brenda is running a charity shop, with the slightly addled Prue and the sight-impaired Denny. But there are changes in the charity and John Turk is keen on a new image - younger staff. Brenda has to cope with her customers, a community service offender and the new regime. |
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| Wait... What? by Ted Evans |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (male) characters appear on stage, one of them only briefly. Two male and two female characters appear on a video shown on the stage. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, almost a monologue, in the style of a disjointed presentation. Some educational content about Attention Deficit Disorder. Includes opportunities for improvisation. Contains mild swearing |
| Synopsis | An Attention Deficit Disorder sufferer talks about his experiences with a new wonder-drug and ADD in general, but ends up saying a little too much for the drug manufacturer's liking. |
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| Waiting for Mr G by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy set on and around a park bench. |
| Synopsis | Small time crooks Arthur and Willie have been told to meet Mr G, the Mr Big of the local underworld. Willie has just pulled off a lucrative job involving 50 fake Rolex watches which, much to his amazement, turn out to be the genuine article. Unfortunately Willie has unwittingly crossed the line into Mr G's territory. |
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| Waiting for the Unicorns by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, requiring little more than a clipboard, a large rock and two actors. (The two animals of every kind are optional.) |
| Synopsis | Noah seems very well organised. He's built the boat thing, all the animals are more or less in alphabetical order, and he's got a list. All that's missing are those infuriating unicorns. Fortunately, his wife has the good sense to grasp the concept of myth and legend. |
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| Waiting for Twist Stiffly by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play which takes place on the set of a 1950s science fiction serial, but is really about actors and their relationship to their characters. |
| Synopsis | Filming of the 1950s adventure serial 'Twist Stiffly - Space adventurer' is being held up because the leading man is nowhere to be found. While the remaining cast members lounge around waiting for him to turn up, they discuss their roles in the drama and their dissatisfactions with the main man. Then they come up with a great way to fill their time until he arrives... |
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| A Wake All Night by Mike Warrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 142 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spooky full length comedy with a single set. |
| Synopsis | The enigmatic Sir Roger Laughton has died, and following his funeral, several select guests are invited to try and spend the night at his haunted mansion. But why these guests? There’s more than deception being practiced tonight. |
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Warm, Hot, Getting Hotter by Lou Treleaven
Winner, Wimbledon Playfest 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with a strange restaurant setting. |
| Synopsis | It gradually becomes clear that the oddly decorated restaurant, the strange waiter, and the very hot food are not what they seem... Each of these diners has a past that they may really be regretting. |
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| Watch This Space [Comedy Play] by Karrena Dewhurst |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the characters is the voice of the computer - conceivably recorded, but probably better live. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, set in space. (There is also a follow-up, 'Watch This Space Too', by Leo Finn, using the same characters.) |
| Synopsis | Rodney's just the cleaner on the spaceship, and he's the butt of everyone's jokes, even the shipboard computer. But when an Alien species threatens the ship, only Rodney's brain has the... spare capacity for telepathic communication. It's up to him to save the ship! |
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| Watch This Space Too by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. FRED is a computer (and therefore presumably, present in voice only.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, set on the bridge of a spaceship. Uses (with permission) the characters from Karrena Dewhurst's 'Watch This Space' |
| Synopsis | The Captain, the Doctor, Number Two and FRED the computer helpt to bring Rodney the Cleaner 's Art of Air Guitar to an alien race. |
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