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| The Mixer by Glyn Blakeborough |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The two main characters are of retirement age, but by no means decrepit! Two of the characters are voices on the phone, so could, conceivably, be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single set (in theory a domestic kitchen, but could easily be done in a 'black box' presentation). Walks a careful line of bittersweet tragic-comedy. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Edna have been waiting for three weeks for their bins to be emptied. Peter helps old Mrs Thorburn by putting her rubbish into the correct bins for collection, but it turns out he's been getting it wrong, and Mrs Thorburn is under threat of legal action... |
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| Mizmaze by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play - with some strong language. |
| Synopsis | A short, spine-tingling play based on the legend surrounding the mysterious, three hundred year old maze at the top of St. Catherine's Hill, Winchester. |
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| Mo by Tyler Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults. Could be played to age or by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple settings, but locations indicated by minimal furniture rather than realistic sets. |
| Synopsis | Mo is the boy who thinks - knows - he can fly. With an exceptional IQ but a difficulty fitting in, he battles prejudice, a dysfunctional foster family, school bullies and himself. With imaginative staging and a vividly powerful, atmospheric plot the play describes Mo's tortuous journey of self-discovery. |
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| Modern Santa by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst the Chairman and Mr. McCrumm are written male, the author has no objection to their gender being reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute skit. No specific set requirements, and no requirement for movement. (Could be done as a party-piece or front-of-curtain during a set change). Contains mild swearing and adult humour. |
| Synopsis | Santa appears before a committee vetting his application for seasonal work. (They suggest that his contract needs additional clauses.) |
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| A Modern Tale Of Red Riding Hood by Andrew Hull |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Narrator could be a female role. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The traditional tale of 'Girl Meets Wolf' is given a modern spin, reflecting the ways of the world today - in a fun short piece. |
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| Mondo Pizzicato by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Professor Paderofsky is written male, but could be played male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act farce. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Jimmy is relying on his brother Danny for financial support while he finishes his musical degree. Danny thinks he should marry Peggy, the girl who does their cleaning, but doesn't know that Jimmy and Peggy had a one night stand last week. Danny also doesn't know that their gay friend Freddy fancies him. All these secrets collide on the same day. |
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| Monkey Business by Sue Murray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are seven humans (5M, 2F) and 2 chips (1M, 1F) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Structurally in three acts, but of one-act length. Split stage set. Contains a limited amount of very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Research into training chimps to use sign language gets an unexpected boost when a student devotes some of his work experience time to listening to what the chimps have to say. But the Doctor in charge of the research isn't so keen on really intelligent subjects... |
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| The Monkey's Paw by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Variations of casting could be used with minimal script changes - to enable 2m, 2f. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act Victorian-style melodrama, with a single (cottage living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Adapted from the short story by W. W. Jacobs, this tense thriller brings an eerie atmosphere as tension builds - with the story of a magical monkey's paw brought from the mystic East. The paw's ability to grant wishes is irresistible, but will only end in macabre tragedy. |
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| Monkeying Around by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. 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 a single (zoo enclosure) setting. |
| Synopsis | Two of the older residents of the zoo’s monkey enclosure are watching the public from a high tree branch. |
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| Monster by Peter Anthony Fields |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (kitchen) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | After a horrific school shooting occurs in a small Midwestern town, a Protestant minister and her troubled brother grapple over how to come to terms with the senseless tragedy. |
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