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| Tiger, Tiger by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set - a private lounge in a Dartmoor holiday lodge - with plenty of entrancesand exits. Contains (mild) swearing.
First published September 2010, Revised November 2015. |
| Synopsis | Sir Maynard Bullivant, MP, arranges a quiet weekend with Judge Dorothy Tranter at Beacon Tor Lodge in deepest Devon. The planne romatic trist is derailed by Dorothy's need to prepare a case, and Maynard's unxepected appointment to the Cabinet.
There's also the matter of an old flame of Maynard's arriving with a bag of stolen diamonds, which she expects Maynard to smuggle for her - a bit tricky, since henow has a Civil Service minder and a Special Branch Protection Officer monitoring his every move. Then there's the ex-con, the ambitious cub reporter and... oh yes, an escaped tiger.
Now, did someone mention a quiet weekend? |
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Time Travel Agent by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner 2018 international Pint Size Plays script writing competition |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single (travel agent shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | Brian would like to book a time travel holiday, but can't decide where and when to go. Meanwhile, Mr Jennings arrives back from his holiday with complaints. |
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| Time Will Tell by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two human characters and a dog. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set at a service counter (which is the only essential set). |
| Synopsis | Mrs Striker has a problem with her alarm clock. However, after taking it to the receiving office for domestic emergencies, she soon has a problem with Mrs Whacker, who keeps offering solutions to problems she doesn't have. |
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| To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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| To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
| Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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| Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
| Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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| Tom-Tom by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is a synthesised voice that might possibly be recorded, though that requires a lot of cues to be executed well by the sound desk! |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play (an extended sketch which, with a bit of stage business, might just creep into the one-act play category). Minimal set - a couple of chairs to indicate a car. |
| Synopsis | A couple struggle to reach their destination despite - or because of - the use of their sat-nav. |
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| Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
| Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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| Tony and Bee-ing Cleopatra by Fiona Scott Patrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Lindsay is dressed in a bumble bee costume with a Cleopatra wig. (Just in case you need a hint about the provenance of the strange title.) The cast includes four numbered tourists. Others might drift through! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute character-driven play, minimal set. (I realise that the residents of Edinburgh might be offended by the description of one of their streets as minimal, but it doesn't need to be a realistic set!) |
| Synopsis | Lindsay is handing out flyers for her show at the Edinburgh Fringe, but she feels she's too old to be there - she's a serious actress. Then she meets Tony, a little drunk and recently dumped by her boyfriend, and the pair find a new enthusiasm for acting. |
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| Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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