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| He Can't Tell You by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Bernie's low because he's just been laid off, but Alice has some good news - his old friend Earl is going to call round! Except Bernie's not so sure Earl was a friend, and maybe he's not going to be so pleased to see Bernie... Things certainly don't pan out as they expected. |
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| He Deserves It by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short-ish two act play - a comic melodrama. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | George Potter dreams of building the low-cost housing his father never finished, but he's long on dreams and short of cash. Will he get the money from mean old banker Bailey, or will his childhood friend Frank help him out?
A play that plays with variations on the characters and themes of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. |
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| Heaven's Waiting Room by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single (rather white) set, simple props. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Martin Dexter is confused to find himself in a waiting room. He remembers breaking up with his girlfriend and... oh, yes, falling to his death. But where does he go from here? (It seems that there are two possibilities...) |
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| Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
| Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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| Hello, Nice To Meet You, Goodbye by Ashley Harris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Cast size can be reduced to six with doubling and costume changes! |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, large-cast comedy. |
| Synopsis | Various hilarious characters populate a fly-on-the-wall look at a speed dating evening. Gerald decides that a detailed account of his recent cricket match is the best way to woo a partner. Bryan delves into his recent toenail extraction to engage Beth before appropriately asking if she would like to eat. Whilst Alix is eager to find a man to test her martial arts skills on whether he wants her to or not. |
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| Help for Greek Heroes by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy,, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
| Synopsis | The Help for Greek Heroes counselling team are discussing their caseload, including Achilles' morbid fear of heel injuries and Oedipus being a mummy's boy. |
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Help Me Get Over You by Rollin Jewett
Finalist - 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF), NYC. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy duologue sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Having ended his relationship with Phyllis, John is having withdrawal difficulties. Much to Phyllis’ initial annoyance and incredulity, John enlists her help with his problem. |
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| Help! I've a Sausage Up My Nose! by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly short sketch. Theoretically set in a pub, but really no set or props required. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | An old officer comes across his pal in a pub and perceives a problem with his probosis. |
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| A Helping Hand by Peter Hale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two strong roles for 1M, 1F (though Mary could be changed to male with only a few small alterations). |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy - wry, rather than laugh-out-loud, possibly more sinister undertones if subtly played. Easy to stage on one living room set. |
| Synopsis | Mary, a harassed social services official, is visiting the old people in her district to update the database. George, an apparently lonely widower, is initially uncooperative. When Mary finds herself staying longer than expected, the barriers come down - and Mary is taught not to patronise the elderly. |
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| Henry VIII by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute historical romp! (The history is rough-and-ready rather that scrupulously accurate!) |
| Synopsis | Henry The Eighth walks amongst his people and is struck by the lewd advances of Anne Boleyn, leading him to split from the Catholic church to obtain his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. |
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