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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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| Your Mother's an Alien by David Dunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play - set optional.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | A group of aliens have been happily living a covert life on earth. An inadvertent slip by the mother of one of the boys may reveal their identity and the problem is made worse by bullying at school. |
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| Your Play or Mine? by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (writer’s study) setting. |
| Synopsis | Impresario Larry Delpiero, a man of highly dubious reputation, accuses self-important playwright Edmund Parnell-Blake of plagiarism, threatening not only the writer's reputation but also his bank balance and general well-being. Karen Maxwell, Edmund's feisty PA,and Mrs Pond, his surprisingly gifted housekeeper, forget their own differences with their employer and rally round in an attempt to save his career. The arrival of fan and aspiring playwright Oliver Capron does nothing to ease Edmund's tension. |
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| Zechariah And Elizabeth by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. There are 16 speaking or singing roles, flexible sized chorus with non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Full scores are provided for 13 songs with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A one act musical. |
| Synopsis | The story from St Luke's gospel of Elizabeth and her husband Zechariah, as they come to terms with a son they didn't expect to have - and his destiny. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Zing Zang by Lynn Snyder |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama of a mid-life (and mid-air) crisis. Plenty of scope for character acting. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Eli is turning fifty, and he's more than a little set in his ways. His oldest friend Sam tries to shake him up a little, see the joy in life, but it's not until a chance meeting with Claire on an aeroplane that Eli discovers who he is... and who he could be. |
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Zoo by Terry Adlam
Performance by Biggleswade Amateur Theatrical Society won three awards at Bedfordshire Drama Festival, 2011, & performance by Little Eyases won 'Best Comedy' at The 38th Wellington Drama Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Five characters appear on stage, with a further eleven as radio or telephone voices. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious one-act comedy. Single set. Contains a little swearing, a little physical violence and a penguin. |
| Synopsis | It's an important day for the zoo manager - financier Sir Norman is coming for an inspection, and nothing must go wrong. So it would be a bad time for the gibbons to hijack a car, the tractor to run into croc lake and the tiger to take up residence in the coffee shop. And don't ask about the penguin. |
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| Zoocatraz by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult (zoo keeper), one child (but this is a comedy sketch, and the child could be played by an adult). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A visitor to the zoo discovers a strange secret... |
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| Zum Speisen mit der Langewörtergesellschaft by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst it the characters are given masculine or feminine names (or titles, in the case of Herr Ober), it could be reassigned with the change of names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dinner with the Society for Long Words - comedy skit in German with English commentary!
Intended as a light piece for a school language class, but clear and funny enough to form part of a general sketch show. |
| Synopsis | It's a meeting of the German Society for Long Words in their favourite cafe. Can they keep the words shorter than the waiter's temper? Apparently not. |
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