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That's the Spirit by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for youth theatre. Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | A ghostly comedy intermingling Haloween and Christmas themes. |
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Them by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the junior member of the main trio is nominally male, he's a juvenile bird, so the gender of the casting is entirely down to the actors you have available! Whilst there is no chorus, there is an option for a flock of juvenile birds! |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, taking a birds-eye view of humanity. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A family of birds discuss the peculiar creatures on the ground below them before they set off on their migration. |
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Therapy by George J. Bryjak |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (therapist’s office) setting. US English. Adult content. |
Synopsis | Dr. Kellogg finds herself functioning more as a referee than a marriage counsellor as she attempts to reconcile the monumental differences between her dysfunctional clients, Phoenicia and Wilbur. Unbeknownst to the flabbergasted therapist, the quarrelsome couple are pursuing a secret agenda. |
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Three Across by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy on a single coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Nathan is hoping for a peaceful morning as he tackles the crossword in his local coffee shop. But when a total stranger, Joanna, decides to share his table, and her ex, Grant, takes the next table along, he is drawn into her romantic tangles. |
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Three Billy Goats Cyber by Richard L. Sanders |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A politically satirical take on the classic fairy tale. |
Synopsis | Three Billy Goats discuss strategies to get past the troll under the bridge and munch the lovely grass on the other side. The use of present day cyber technologies becomes part of the scheming. |
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The Three Goats Gruff by Ann Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for young children with a single (meadow) setting. |
Synopsis | The 3 sibling goats have overgrazed the land on their side of the river and must travel over the bridge to get to the green grass on the other side. Under the bridge lives a troll who charges a toll. There is an opportunity to use the Tinikling style of dance to represent the bridge as two poles held by actors on each end, tapped together in rhythmic cadence while actors dance between the poles to represent crossing. |
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Tilapia by Rosemary Frisino Toohey Tilapia was named Finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition in 2009. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are middle-aged or above. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play. Single dinner table set (only needs to be indicative). |
Synopsis | An elegant couple discuss their meal, the recent past and some very peculiar events that took place during an abortive dinner party that very evening. What the protagonists don't understand soon becomes clear to the audience! |
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Awards | Click here to see the awards won by (productions of) this script. |
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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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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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