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| Mother and Daughter by Christina Simpkin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The daughter has a playing age in the early twenties. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short one-act play - a gentle comedy. Single set, representing a living room. |
| Synopsis | Ruth is off out on a date, but first she's got to answer all her mother's questions. Will mother ever approve of a man met over the internet? And why does she want Ruth to leave her computer on when he goes out? |
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| Mother of the Bride by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Either a rhyming monologue or a piece for a cast of five! No set requirements, no props. |
| Synopsis | A mother of four (unwed) daughters bewails the lack of matrimonial bliss in her family. |
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| Motor Mouth by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be either |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, requiring something to represent a dentist's chair. Family-friendly, light-hearted humour. Would fit easily into a community revue evening or an event of similar tone. |
| Synopsis | A man shows-up for a dental appointment only to find that his usual dentist is participating in a government-sponsored job swap... |
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Mourning Calls by Troy Shearer
Winner of the 2007 Geneva Theatre Guild's Playwright's Playreading Contest. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the characters is dead. One of the characters is a child. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very black comedy. Contains swearing and strong adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Chris wakes up to find a dead hooker in his bed. His best friend isn't being very helpful and his wife is on her way home. Should he call the cops or try to dispose of her body himself? Then he finds out his wife is due home early than expected... |
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| Moving With The Times by Jennifer Garthwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.) |
| Synopsis | Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage. |
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| Mr. Willoughby by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch (simple set, simple props) featuring a switchback conversation and corn circles! |
| Synopsis | An Alien Abductee is interviewed by a sceptical journalist, providing some surprising answers. |
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Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour. |
| Synopsis | An exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - My Day Out by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | An account of Mrs. Smith's holiday - a day trip to the Bluewater shopping centre. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Don Pedro, prince of Aragon, comes sweeping into town - along with his wayward brother, Don John, who is bent on making mischief. He finds his opportunity when he seeks to spoil the romance between Claudio (one of the Prince's knights) and Hero, the daughter of their host. Meanwhile, Claudio and Hero try to kindle a romance between Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend Benedick, who everyone thinks made for each other - if they can ever get beyond their endless verbal sparring. |
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| Much Ado About W... by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short panto-like, adult-themed farce. |
| Synopsis | Quickfire gags, mistaken identities and outlandish new fashion designs confuse the King into believing his unmarried daughter, Princess Grace is pregnant. Is effeminate fashion designer Sir Pryze at the bottom of this? And what has assistant Watt been up to? |
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