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| The Definition of Love by Benoni Holt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The monologue is in the voice of a sixteen-year-old English girl. (There is some room for manoeuvre - with minor tweaks to the script - in the specific age, and in the nationality). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. No set or props required. Contains swearing and sensitive issues. |
| Synopsis | An angry sixteen-year-old rages about her sister's cancer and the many other trials in her life, all brought about by the ability to love. She argues for and against in an eloquent, sometimes poignant, monologue with an unexpectedly positive ending. |
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| Deja Deja Vu by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a surreal edge. Single set (the minimum required to indicate a living room). |
| Synopsis | You know the feeling you get that something has happened before? Well Derek's had that feeling before - and for good reason. |
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| Delilah by Len Cuthbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 3 adult roles and 1 with a character age of 12. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with a multi-functional set. Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Jade has a history of being the victim of abandonment. As a result, she struggles with her relationships with the people she is closest to. Her survival mechanism is to be in control of her own life and everyone else’s. But that ability to control is threatened when she faces one of the most difficult decisions of her life. |
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| The Delphi Dilemma by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for teenage cast, set at an archaeological dig in Greece. |
| Synopsis | A school party have been set a discovery quiz on their educational trip to Greece. All goes smoothly, if a little competitively, until a schoolboy prank goes badly wrong. |
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| Demons by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. (Minimal set and simple props.) |
| Synopsis | A pair of rough, tough policemen prepare for some rigorous physical training. |
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| The Deposit by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (bank vault) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | Three rookie thieves believe they've pulled off the heist of the year until one forgets the most important rule - stay focused. |
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| The Depot by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tightly scripted one-act comedy with good characters and wordplay. comedy. US English. |
| Synopsis | The ticket agent and porter at a desolate train station in the 1900s become concerned over a growing odor within the stacked freight and decide to solve the mystery rather than await the Sheriff's arrival. |
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Der Vordere Platz (The Forward Place) by Henry P. Gravelle
Winner - Avalonia monologue competition, November 14, 2017. 'Captains monologue Der Vordere Platz' |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama set in a submarine and a bedroom. US English. Some adult content. |
| Synopsis | The crew of a WW2 German U-boat under enemy fire contemplate their bleak future. Each individual battles to find his own ‘forward place’ and one of them leaves a surprising final legacy. |
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| A Desirable Location by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Whilst James is written male, he could be a she without |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in an estate agent's office. |
| Synopsis | Can James the estate agent find the right house for Ruth? |
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| Desperate Gallery by Sophie Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play set in an art gallery. Contains mild swearing (and art). |
| Synopsis | Camelia is a young artist is displaying her work in a local art gallery in the hope of achieving her first sale. Two inept art thieves are the only 'customers' and in her desperation for artistic fame she explores various strategies with them. The arrival of snooty art critic Jorgen Tyson interrupts their planning and his disparaging remarks become increasingly annoying - with fatal consequences! However in a witty final twist his presence may help Camelia to achieve her goal after all. |
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