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| Last Woman Working by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act satirical comedy with a single (office) setting. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Robots, with government backing, have taken over almost every job previously done by humans. Masses are protesting. Desperate to save her job in an electronics factory, Barbara Wooley takes an aggressive stand at her local MP's surgery. |
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| Late Again by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a single (sitting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Angela is annoyed when husband Richard is constantly late home from work. This time though it is a motorway pile-up which has detained him. Angela is devastated when a stranger comes to call for Richard. |
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| Latin Fever by Terence Dale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single domestic set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Surly and aggressive Bernard has to be levered out of his domestic rut by the persistence of his long-suffering but ever loving wife, who wields a crowbar in the unlikely shape of Stephen... |
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Laughing Through Curtains by Damian Trasler
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set behind the curtain of a comedy club. |
| Synopsis | Mike has been looking forward to the break between his evening stand-up comedy performance and the late show, but a string of visitors fill his spare time - his manager, his fellow comedian and opener Ricky, the venue owner, and finally his ex-wife Cindy. Master of the quip though he is, can Mike find the right words for all of them? |
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| Laughter Lines by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults in middle age or older. Some of the women are intended to be played by men (in gossipy, unglamorous middle-aged drag). |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of 18 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to ten minutes). Few set requirements (although one sketch takes place in and around a bed). There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
| Synopsis | Sketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes.
Most of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.)
There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play |
| Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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| The Law is an Ass by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written as male, but the judge could easily be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single courtroom set. |
| Synopsis | Old Lag Eddie Larsen is up in front of the beak again. Caught red handed climbing out of a shop window with a bag of swag, it looks like he's going down. But in a stroke of brilliance he defends himself with his own personal philosophy, making a believer out of the judge and earning himself a most unusual sentence. |
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| Lay Your Cards on the Table by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue for an injured sportsman. Minimal set (a lap-top computer with some means of support). A tender mixture of comedy and pathos. |
| Synopsis | Wheelchair-bound former rugby player Tom has been surfing the web to keep himself occupied since his accident and has developed an interesting income stream. |
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| Lazy Daze by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One (female) character plays herself and a series of other people. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monody - one-act play for a cast of one. Single (store-room) set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Daisy, with her limp and her lazy eye, has suffered scorn in her life, but Ian showed her a new interest - philosophy, reading, questioning. Daisy tells us about the night she and Ian were both invited to a colleague's leaving do. |
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| Leading Ladies by Christina Simpkin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set on a busy stage! |
| Synopsis | Bertha and Florence are backstage at the latest big production, preparing for the vital role they play in the piece. But they don't feed lines to anyone... |
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