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A Teenage Christmas Carol by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Very flexible casting - there are 11 narrators, who could ultimately be condensed to one role, and other doubling would be possible. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play in a mix of verse (from the narrators) and prose (from the rest of the cast). No set requirements, simple props. |
Synopsis | The great granddaughter of Ebenezer Scrooge needs to be taught the same lessons he learned - and in a very similar fashion! |
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Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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That's Amore by Arnold Kane Winner of the Cambridge Theatre Challenge, International Playwriting Competition, 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy in a single (hotel bedroom) set. |
Synopsis | A couple have retreated to a hotel room - a Film Director and a meek Librarian. There is playful banter, flirting, and plenty of champagne... Who can doubt what will come next? Apart from the phone call, of course. |
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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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The Three Little Pigs by Trevor Darwin New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming pantomime. |
Synopsis | Wolfgang Leloup, the evil property developer, sets about cheating the three little pigs out of their homes, and succeeds in acquiring Corky's and Pinky's houses. With the help of Widow Swanky and the Hairy Godmother, the pigs hatch a plan to end Leloup's schemes. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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