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| The Twelve Months by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). The author suggests a single set divided into three areas. |
| Synopsis | Marushka, the young stepdaughter of a widow, is always being ordered around and berated when she questions her stepmother's unreasonable requests. As punishment, her stepmother asks her to leave the house in January and only return when she has found a bunch of Violets - flowers which only grow in April. She dutifully acccepts, only to stumble upon the meeting-place of the twelve months of the year. They agree to help her, but when she returns with violets, her stepmother has more tasks for her... |
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| Twelve Odd Passengers by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The characters are nominally nine men and five women, but in the context the genders do not really matter! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for children. A single setting (nominally a guardroom, but only requires furniture, and not much of that). |
| Synopsis | Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Mail Coach Passengers the months of the year introduce themselves with descriptions of their attributes. |
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| Twist by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist as a one-act comedy for kids. |
| Synopsis | Wide-eyed innocent Oliver progresses from orphanage to workhouse to den of thieves to prison cell and then back onto the mean streets as a fugitive, and not only from the law. No matter, things can only get better, can't they? Even the ever-optimistic Oliver is beginning to have doubts about that. |
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| A Twitch In Time by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | John may have just spotted a Windy - a rare bird not seen in the UK for over a hundred years. But his wife is keen to start her drama group meeting and is cross her house has been invaded by Twitchers. Now the bird won't reappear and the meeting is bothering the Twitchers and vice versa. |
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| Twixt Heaven and Hell by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The gatekeepers above and below argue about the disposition of new arrivals. |
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| Two by Stephen O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two retirees. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play for a cast of two. Set on a seaside bench. Gentle exploration of the characters of a retired couple. |
| Synopsis | Frank and Rosie are at the seaside, trying to enjoy the environment around their new home. Frank is upbeat, but Rosie is more cautious. They talk about their life and family, then round off their visit with an ice cream from a proper ice cream van. |
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| Two Aside by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play. A black comedy. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | George and Marge contemplate ending it all... |
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| Two Authors by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two authors meet and attempt to outdo one another with tales of their success. |
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| Two Barmen by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The barmen are written male (as you might expect). The third characters is a duck. There are also two disembodied voices. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a bar (which can be a minimal set or as elaborate as you can justify for a four-minute piece). |
| Synopsis | You know the one where two men walk into a bar? Well, turns out it was this bar, where every baroom joke you've ever heard took place, along with quite a few you haven't heard.
A duck walks into a bar and says 'Have you got any bread?'... |
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| Two Big Nipple Tassels, 88 by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are in their seventies. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute romantic comedy. Contains mild swearing (and sauciness). |
| Synopsis | As the title suggests there are saucy references in this one act comedy set in Sunnydale Residential Home for the elderly. Two old friends, Ernie and Jerry meet regularly for a relaxing game of dominos. When new resident, sassy, mischievous seventy-year-old Elsie comes on the scene their idyllic routine is interrupted, particularly when mild mannered Ernie falls for her. Jerry tries to help his old friend deal with his thwarted romantic intentions as Ernie falls victim to his unrequited love for Elsie. |
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