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| A Nice Cup of Tea by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle aged couple. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play, single kitchen setting (needs at least a working kettle). |
| Synopsis | Harold has just returned from his course, training to be Health and Safety Officer at his firm. Now that he's in the know, he's determined to prevent his poor wife Marian from exposing herself to unnecessary risk while making a cuppa. |
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| Nice Out, Isn't It? by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, deckchairs only. |
| Synopsis | Enthusiastic Ken and disillusioned Brian sit by the seaside and reminisce about their lives, their favourite comedy duos, and lost loves. |
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No Idea by Charles Dennison
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| 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 comedy sketch set in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Synopsis | Fred and Mavis are enjoying a quiet morning in their farmhouse, when a visitor calls in the hopes of finding some antiques of value to purchase. He doesn't really fancy the non-matching candlesticks, but he's very taken with a painting left by the farmer's grandfather. |
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| Non-Sequitur by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch in the absurdist mode with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A number of characters interchange absurd conversations with a surprising conclusion. |
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| Not Long Before Waking by Matthew Taylor |
| 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 | Theatrical surrealism (the actors are on stage, but their dialogue comes through a soundtrack). Short play, single set, a few props. |
| Synopsis | Two characters share a discussion inside a strange dream. The devil observes! |
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| Nothing Exciting In Little Noddingsbury by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All the characters are written male, but could easily be changed (although female bank robbers are an under-represented minority). |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy play (or a long sketch) with a single set - the minimum necessary to indicate a bank. |
| Synopsis | Two bank robbers hold up a small town bank - only to find that the clerk and manager are a little more relaxed than they were expecting. |
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| Nothing Is What It Seems by Martyn Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dark, dramatic monologue, and a challenge for an actor. |
| Synopsis | He looks like a rough sleeper, but the man on the bench warns the audience not to make assumptions. He could be a police officer, working undercover. Or his story could be much darker and more tragic. |
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| Now Is Not The Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Death, War, Pestilence and Famine, and Mr. and Mrs Lamb - a couple from Yorkshire. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twelve-minute comedy skit. Single set (though the location is largely conveyed through dialogue). |
| Synopsis | A couple are trying to get their guest house ready for a party of four when four horsemen arrive. The Four Horsemen. The couple have to explains that they've no vacancies and the End of the World simply isn't convenient at this moment in time... |
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| Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Emma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour. |
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| The Old Apprentice by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play, single office setting. |
| Synopsis | A 65-year-old applicant for the TV programme 'Find Me An Apprentice' is interviewed by the surprised producer. |
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