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| A Cautionary Tale by Howard Lipson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A different take on the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, here showing the Rich Man (Ozymandias) arriving in torment, only for a fellow sufferer to point out the hopelessness of his situation. |
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Chum by Henry P. Gravelle
Independent Horror Movie Awards 2018 First Place |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (rowing boat) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Freddy was acquitted of the murder of Junior's sister Lucy. On a moonlit night in the Bayou, the pair find themselves alone in a fishing boat, after apparently reconciling, but Junior has a sinister plan. |
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| Coming Home by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The main characters are an aged father and his son. The Tea Lady is a very brief cameo. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, set in a private room in a nursing home. (Which could be indicated with the minimum of detail.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Barry's Dad is in hospital, his mind slipping back and forth through time. Barry needs him to sign some forms, but he can't help but be interested in spectres from the past that he's not heard of before. Until one secret catches him by surprise and changes everything. |
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| Corner Property by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written male. The character with the pack would be the easiest to change. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. Single set (with no requirements - could easily be played front-of-curtain. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Joe and Peter, two former soldiers, beg for change on a street corner and watch the world pass them by - whilst underneath, there's a power struggle going on. |
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| Covered by Rachel Ihasz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play featuring three teenage girls in a single woodland camp setting. |
| Synopsis | Three friends are sharing their monthly camping trip but Trace feels left out. When Erin leaves, she confronts her old friend Marcy but learns more than she was prepared for. |
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Dating by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 playwriting competition, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Single (minimal set representing a corner of a wine bar). Lots of character work built from a very short script. |
| Synopsis | Eve and her friend Hope are comparing war stories of dating, even though Hope already has her man sorted. Just as Eve seems to have given up, she literally runs into Peter, an associate of her ex-husband. But is he too good to be true? |
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| Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office. |
| Synopsis | This is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'. |
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Double Walker by Henry P. Gravelle
Best Short Screenplay - Independent Horror Movie Awards, Online script competition, July 9, 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 play, single interior (psychiatrist's office) set. |
| Synopsis | Bruce Arnold is referred to Psychiatrist Maria Dobbs after being linked to a series of deaths. He claims it is his shadow, his doppelganger that kills people who make him angry. Can the Doctor get to the truth... or is it already too late? |
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| The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set. |
| Synopsis | A middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit. |
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| Dutch Courage by Elizabeth Bell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A poignant monologue with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Maggie is preparing to leave for Holland where her husband Geoff, at his own request, will enter a euthanasia clinic. Her feelings and emotions bubble under the surface and gather tension as the transport arrives. |
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