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| A National Treasure - A Lifetime's Interest by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Part one of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Her encounter with her client Mr Ranwell and his highly salacious collection of books confirms her opinions about the transient quality of beauty - and the yardstick by which a gentleman should be judged. |
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| Never Be Late by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are of high school age. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play about a first date - with some laughs and some surprises. Simple set (a couple of tables, three or more chairs). |
| Synopsis | Jim's just dropping into his favourite cafe when he sees his friend Sally waiting for her blind date to arrive. When she won't let him sit with her, he moves on to another girl waiting for her beau. Mistaking him for her date, she starts to fall for him, but it all goes wrong, and not just for Jim. |
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| Nighthawks by James Skivington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An easy-to-stage one-act comedy-drama on a single cafe set. Gentle but witty comedy with effective character development. Some adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Cathy is about to close her café for the night when three customers show up - Erin, who’s young, poor, and very pregnant, Phil, a goth with an acerbic wit, and Fiona, who's having the worst day of her life. |
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| No Joy! by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch set in a railway platform cafeteria. |
| Synopsis | When Joy chances to meet Bill, her estranged husband of many months, in a railway station cafeteria, they both learn that events have moved on in the life of the other. But which of them is now faring the better? |
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No Occasion To by David Weir
Kenneth Branagh award for new dramatic writing, Windsor Fringe, 2011
Joy Goun award for best new play, Arundel Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single (pub bar) setting. |
| Synopsis | A trio of award-winning journalists gather annually to remember the night they received their prestigious award. Their tenth anniversary is gate-crashed by a mysterious stranger whose relevance is gradually and chillingly revealed. |
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| Nothing Extravagant by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A blind date where these two have figured it all out! |
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| Nothing Refreshes Better by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch - a pas-de-deux for barman and customer. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | A pedantic man walks into a bar - and tries the patience of the barman by insisting on receiving the advertised product... |
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| Notice How Young I Look by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A blind date turns into a commercial endorsement. |
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One Mistake by Stephen Scheurer-Smith
Winner of Cambridge Drama Festival 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play Psychic Babble. |
| Synopsis | An alcoholic has-been pop star is on the road with her daughter reluctantly in tow. They're the last ones in the hotel bar, but the bartender, a former City high-flyer, has a surprising past of his own. |
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| The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
| Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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