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| Knights Of The Flat Pack Table by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | King Arthur, assisted by Merlin, takes on the perils of constructing his round table from a self- assembly flatpack. Queen Guinevere is not amused at their antics. |
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Knock, Knock, Knock by Bob Eccles
In a production by shiskine drama club, this script was awarded the Douglas Sillers Trophy in the Isle of arran drama association festival, February 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and the offstage voice of a child. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single domestic setting, where a seance is held. |
| Synopsis | Teddy has passed away and in an effort to be sure that he is happy Jacky recruits medium Petunia to perform a séance and contact him. Jacky's sceptical brother Fred joins in the fray determined to disrupt proceedings, as does gormless neighbour Fran who doesn't quite understand what is going on. Fraudster Petunia does her best to contact Teddy but is shocked to discover who he really was. |
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| Knock, Knock, Who's There? by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voices of one female laughing and multiple children, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a living room setting. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | Yvonne is desperate for the council to arrange a transfer for her and husband Dennis, from their high rise flat in Barbara Castle Towers to a lovely maisonette with gnomes in the garden... Her case may be enhanced when a TV crew arrive to investigate poltergeist activity in the flat. |
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| The Knock by Elisabeth Marrion |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue. |
| Synopsis | Alma Zenick moved from Germany to England in the 1870s to work as a furrier. Decades later, in the first year of World War One, she awaits news of her sixth son. The other five have died in action, and she dreads receiving bad news about her last boy. |
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| Knotweed by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming comedy monologue with no set requirement. |
| Synopsis | Monty is in a dilemma when an invasive plant takes over his garden. But is it Knotweed or is it not? |
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| L.A. Gendry And The Tomb Of Kalos by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. As written, there are four archaeologists and six villagers, but these numbers are flexible in either direction. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy adventure for kids. In theory, there are three locations, but these can be indicated by a minimum of furniture (or lack of furniture). |
| Synopsis | L.A. Gendry, all-action female adventurer, is enlisted to help Professor Polonius and his daughter excavate the recently discovered tomb of the little-known Egyptian King Kalos. The tomb's treasure is to be the centrepiece of a museum for the benefit of all. At least that is the Professor's plan. However the tomb is said to be cursed and criminal mastermind The Scar (incidentally L.A. Gendry's arch enemy) has other ideas. |
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| The Labor Train by Kal B Sisson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, set on a subway train. |
| Synopsis | Pregnant Sam sits alone on a subway train in the late evening. She is joined by the suspicious-looking homeless Jeff. This unlikely pairing come together as Sam's labour pains commence and Jeff shows his true character. |
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| Labour Pains by Rachael Ashworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | The high emotions surrounding the imminent arrival of Helen's first baby are made substantially worse by competing grandmothers to be, scatty Aunt Mel, the midwife, and a somewhat inept husband. |
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| The Labours Of Heracles by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The minimum cast assumes reallocation of the Amazons' lines. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for four original songs. |
| Style | Comedy play with four original songs. Multiple locations, but intended for minimal staging. Intended for school productions from Year 6 (US Grade 5) upwards. |
| Synopsis | Heracles' twelve mighty labours are recreated (and rehydrated) just off the stage in this light comedy based on the Greek legend.(No lions need be harmed in this production.) |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Ladies by Scott Kingsnorth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth goes looking for Shelly, since the wedding they are both attending is winding down. Finding her in the Ladies', Elizabeth has trouble getting her friend out of the cubicle, only to find they're both locked in for the night. |
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