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| The Coat by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy. (Either a long sketch or a very short play!) |
| Synopsis | A customer is after some help selecting a coat. The store's Personal Shopping Adviser has other ideas... |
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| COBRA by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a meeting room. |
| Synopsis | A meeting of the top secret emergency response team covers some new threats... |
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| The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Three characters are written male, but they could easily be played from the distaff side. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Tthree short sketches from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Steve Clark.) They could either be played continuously (as three scenes) or split up across an evening of sketches. |
| Synopsis | A celebration of the great technological breakthroughs by the boffins of Bletchley Park (and where they inevitably led). |
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| Coffee Morning Chaos by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play. Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | Some lady volunteers are preparing for the hoards who are about to descend - any moment now! - on a coffee morning. Fun with flapjacks, more scorn than scones and just as much gossip as you'd expect - but when is everyone going to arrive? |
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| The Coffee Shop by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies three characters, two of them are played in different eras, so could be done by different actors. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but without need for any particular set.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A coffee shop customer has another encounter with the tyranny of choice! |
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Cold Blooded Killer by Geoff Rose-Michael
Won the New Writing Award at the Leatherhead Drama Festival, 2013. (Also received nominations for best actor and best actress.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters include one mysterious figure (non-speaking) and two female voices which might well be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller, single set.
First published 2014, revised 2018. |
| Synopsis | Recently widowed Jack disturbs Becky, an intruder, and is shocked by how much she resembles his late wife, who died along with her mother in mysterious circumstances. Jack attempts to persuade Becky to impersonate his wife, to inherit the fortune of her mother. Their web of deceit becomes progressively tangled culminating in a shocking ending. |
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| Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
| Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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| Cold Front by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is a radio voice from offstage and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with farcical overtones, in a remote hut setting. |
| Synopsis | When Mike whisks Karen away to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands, he thinks he's planned the perfect birthday surprise. But things soon sour when the cottage turns out to be nothing more than a rusty tin shack, and the friends Mike has invited are people Karen can't stand. As tensions rise and temperatures plummet, they find themselves entombed in a blizzard, leading to frosty exchanges and those of a more amorous nature. |
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| Collateral Damage by George J. Bryjak |
| 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 | A one act-drama with a single setting of a car, which can be suggested and performed by the actors. Strong language, emotional adult content, US English. |
| Synopsis | A US Army captain returns from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, and is met by his wife at the airport. During the drive home, the initial joy of this reunion is shattered. |
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| Colonel Blood and the Great Crown Jewels Robbery by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A historical drama in one act. |
| Synopsis | In 1671, Colonel Thomas Blood and his criminal associates have a plan to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. All they need to do is befriend the elderly custodian and trick him into giving them special access to the jewels. |
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