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Any Colour But Red by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Fourteen on-stage characters (including a detective written male, but playable by either gender) and an offstage female voice. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production took 50 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy whodunnit with adult themes. Two almost identical kitchen sets! |
Synopsis | When Jim and Jani hold an Open Morning to sell their house, a mix-up in arrangements sends them some extremely unusual prospective buyers, some with bizarre expectations. Twenty-four hours later, the house has become a crime scene and the police need the help of the neighbours, Fred and Molly. |
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Anyone for Bison? by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, other characters could easily be added. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Costumed comedy for kids. Single set (with teepee). |
Synopsis | This is what might of happened when a bunch of English settlers first encountered native Americans - a clash of cultures resolved in a uniquely American way. |
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Anything to Declare? by David Lovesy & Steve Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both written male, but the customs officer could easily be female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Requires a table and a suitcase (the contents of which can either be hidden from the view of the audience, or revealed for greater comic effect). |
Synopsis | A traveller has his bags checked at Customs and some unusual items are discovered! |
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Anything You Say, Your Majesty by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple settings, but intended for production with minimal scenery. (The author is fond of 'a few stage blocks'.) |
Synopsis | Surely a Queen looking for a new high-profile image and appearance in ‘Hi, there!’ celebrity magazine, can do no better than featuring in a coronation and a royal wedding at one and the same time. Of course the absence of both a crown and a suitable groom could be a problem. |
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Apparently Not by Hayley Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play, set in and around a school. |
Synopsis | A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice. |
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An Apple a Day by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch (bordering on a very short play) for a cast of two. |
Synopsis | Serial dieter Laura is on yet another diet but is struggling to maintain her willpower. Will her sister Nikki be able to get her back on track? |
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An Apple for Newton by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The perfect role for a wooden actor. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue - no set requirements or props, but some ingenuity required for the costume! |
Synopsis | An apple tree gets to the core of Isaac Newton's most famous discovery. |
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Apple Strudel, Chess and Ethics by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Five in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Albert Einstein challenges J. Robert Oppenheimer to a chess match, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar looking on, as they discuss physics and ethics in the lead-up to the Manhattan Project. |
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Appropriate Clowning by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A high value short sketch. |
Synopsis | A clown new to the profession seeks advice from a veteran performer. |
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April Groom by Pat Wollaston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a single apartment setting. Contains some adult themes and language. |
Synopsis | Jim is to be married to Judy tomorrow. Best Man Phil and Judy's sister Mel set up an April Fool's joke which goes awry. |
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