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| God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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| Godfather Christmas by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two adults and a child, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Three minute sketch. No set (a chair would help), but indicative clothing would be useful...
Warning - contains Santa Claus spoiler! |
| Synopsis | Don Abalone makes an offer a kid can't refuse... |
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| The Gods by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | The Gods on Mount Olympus are fed up with modern humanity and wondering how it all went so wrong. |
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| Going Digital by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue set in an armchair surrounded by remote controls. |
| Synopsis | Patricia, in her eighties, struggles to adapt to the increasingly complex technology which threatens to leave her generation behind. |
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| Going Down by Frank Gibbons |
| 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 | Short comedy sketch (with a lot going on under the surface). Contains peccadilloes. |
| Synopsis | Sebastian wakes up in the passenger seat of his car to find that his wife, Elizabeth, has driven him to an unusual spot. |
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| Going Out by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters is an adult, but the piece is intended to be played by teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for teenagers. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A father struggle to understand the confusing pressure of not going out with someone as his son prepares for the school disco. |
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| Going Places by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy, Single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | We meet Melanie on the day that her divorce from Simon is to be finalised. The divorce resulted from Simon's affair with glamorous but vacuous Tulisa who is 15 years his junior and with whom he feels he can 'go places'. Melanie is not coping well with her emotions or her financial difficulties but has sterling support from both her mother and her friend Liz. However, things get a little fraught when Simon and Tulisa call round to claim some pictures from the marital home to help furnish their new pad. However, it turns out that Melanie has the last laugh... |
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Going Underground by Christopher Morgan
Awarded the George Taylor Memorial Award as winner of the 2005 One Act Playwriting Competition of the National Drama Festivals Association |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set - the interior of an underground train. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Seven travellers on the underground with a series of overlapping stories. |
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| Going Up? by Rosemary Frisino Toohey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Alex is written as female, but with changes to pronouns in speeches, may be portrayed as male. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun, quirky comedy. Very easily staged, with no set or props required. Could fit into sketch nights and the like.
American English, so it takes place in an elevator, not a lift. |
| Synopsis | It's morning in a busy office building when an elevator suddenly stops between floors. Four strangers learn more than they'd like to about each other. And the big question... is the stoppage a mechanical problem, or are hostile forces at work? |
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| Going, Going, Gone by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | With very well observed and realistic characters this one act comedy takes a wry look at family relationships. |
| Synopsis | Long suffering Vera has reached the limit of her patience and has decided to leave her marriage of 40 years to Fred. Her preparations are interrupted by sister Doreen's announcement that after a multitude of marriages, she has realised that she is gay and brings round fiancée Jo to meet Fred and Vera. Doreen and Jo are closely followed by Honey, Fred and Vera's daughter, who brings more bewilderment for them with her announcement that her six-week marriage is over! The resultant hilarious chaos proves too much for Fred who is spurred on to assert himself with drastic and unexpected action. |
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