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| The Misfortune Of Lionel Schlusselberg by Aisha Tritle & Keelia McGovern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy skit |
| Synopsis | Lionel, an antisocial medical blogger, is coaxed into a blind double date as a favour to his best friend. Contrasting backgrounds, conversations, and the effect of peanuts result in a short-lived liaison between one pair. But all is not lost for Lionel. |
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| Mismatching Mates by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character-driven drama with a single café setting. |
| Synopsis | Iris and Gert meet a few times in the café in town, and become friends. Iris lets slip that she's a widow with a generous settlement from her husband's life insurance, and she's looking on-line for a new man. Gert cautions her about the funny types you get out there, but surely Harry is a good man? |
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| Miss Glossop Comes to Tea by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Character ages range from young adult to retired. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set (domestic living room). One-act play. |
| Synopsis | Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits an old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty. |
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| Miss Glossop's Weekend Break by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters range from young adults to retirees. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set. One act play. |
| Synopsis | A murder is committed at a small hotel, and Miss Glossop is on hand to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions. A second outing for the incompetent detective who first appeared in Miss Glossop Comes to Tea. (Note that this is not a sequel - the two plays function independently.) |
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| Missed the Last Bus by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Mary spoil a pleasant night out as they miss the last bus home and the blame game begins. |
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Missing by Sue Bevan
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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| Missing Links by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act farce with a split stage setting comprising two living rooms. |
| Synopsis | The inadvertent use of the wrong type of mushroom, causing temporary amnesia, leads to marital confusions for a friendly foursome who forget who is married to whom. |
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| Mister Right by Robert Black |
| 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 short comic dialogue (no set needed). |
| Synopsis | Two geeky friends, Vincent and Harry, both reckon the other has no chance of keeping a girlfriend unless they get rid of their favourite wall poster. |
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| Mitigating Circumstances by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (better done live, but easy to double) |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic story told in a single set but in non-chronological order. |
| Synopsis | Simon's death was certainly caused by his heart condition, but Emma swapping his meds for vitamins didn’t help. After the funeral, her friends gather and discuss things that might have driven Emma to murder. |
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| Mixed Massages by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a non-speaking role - the literal butt of some of the jokes! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Intended to be played at frantic pace, so possible to run in 50 minutes! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with a single 'health spa' setting. Intended to be taken at a frantic pace, so could well be done in 50 minutes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy day in the relaxation spa, with New Girl Tina struggling to come to terms with her new job. It's all complicated by a number of clients who've arranged liaisons, or mistaken the premises for.. .some quite different establishment. It's steamy and hairy, but funny too. |
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