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| You See It All On The Radio! by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The age range of the cast has not been specified deliberately to allow for greater flexibility. Likewise, the parts of Bev and Tess can quite feasibly become Ben and Terry. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a radio studio setting. |
| Synopsis | A small radio station is ambitiously transmitting a live performance of a period drama. The presentation crumbles as the actors struggle with their own relationships, To make matters worse, the sound effects go awry and transmission difficulties arise. |
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| You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
| Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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| You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting. |
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| You Won't Know I'm Here by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three on-stage characters, two off (one of which - the voice of a newsreader - would probably be recorded, the other would be better live, being the unseen half of a phone conversation.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | For the last thirty years there has been mutual antipathy between Sheila and her Mother-In-Law, Jean whose son John dotes upon her. Today is John and Sheila's thirtieth wedding anniversary and Sheila is looking forward to a special holiday. Jean, however has other ideas. The same characters also appear in a festive counterpart I Don't Think I'll Be Here Next Christmas. |
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| You'll Suit Just Fine [One-Act Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single simple shop set. |
| Synopsis | Mr Green is working in his small, family-run menswear shop and training up his new employee, Kevin. Although Kevin has a good eye for fashion he has a lot to learn about social etiquette. How will Kevin deal with a disgruntled customer? |
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| You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop. |
| Synopsis | Kevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day. |
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| You're A Robot, Miss Jones? by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for four actors on a minimal set, with sci-fi themes. |
| Synopsis | In an obscure department of the British Civil Service, the office manager interviews Miss Jones to find out whether her job could be done by a robot. |
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| You're Not Wearing That by Steve Menary |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A mother and two teenage children. (Could all, of course, be played by teenagers.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for and about teenagers. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A Sister and Brother try to explain the concept of cool to their mother. |
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| Young Tommy Atkins by Jon Tilley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character ages of 17 and 27, but could be played by younger ages. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (World War One trench) set. |
| Synopsis | Three young soldiers, Harry a famous footballer in civvy street , new recruit Tommy and their officer Captain Jackson are pinned down in an abandoned First World War trench for several hours. Their relationship develops until the final poignant moments. |
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| Your Deal by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (waiting room) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | As her sister goes into labour, Joy waits with the husband's best friend, who is nervous about the imminently delivered baby. |
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