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| Two For The Price Of One by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single (kitchen-dining room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Sarah is beginning to worry that her lorry-driver husband has a fancy woman in Coventry. Their daughter thinks 'augmentation' will help her keep a boyfriend, and Sarah wonders if it'll help her too. |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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| Two Grunts For Yes by Jessica McHugh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy contains one suggested piece of background music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short one act comedy, with some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Some college students return home with a few extra pounds, tattoos, or disappointing grades, but when 18 year old Irene McManus returns to her conservative southern household with her new boyfriend Tommy, things get messy between her and her mother, Delia. She doesn't disapprove of Tommy because he's ill-mannered or bad with words. The fact that he's dead, however, whips the prim matriarch into a frenzy. Can Irene convince her mother to accept her zombie boyfriend? Or will Delia convince her daughter that zombie boys are only after one thing: her brains? |
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| The Two Igors by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch for five performers. |
| Synopsis | On the verge of creating new life, Doctor Frankenstein has to face complaints from his hunchbacked assistant. |
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| Two Left Feet by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama for three actors and one simple set. |
| Synopsis | Following her divorce, 40-something Joy has turned up at her sister Carole’s place, where she sags about on the sofa looking gloomy. Carole, on the other hand, has a richly fulfilling life in the ballroom with boyfriend Steve. Joy’s last dance, aged 15, was a disaster, but can she find strength on the dance floor at last? And is Steve really the romantic he's cracked up to be? |
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| Two Surgeons by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two surgeons converse while performing an operation. Cue a string of dreadful medical jokes! |
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| Two Weddings and a Conference by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven speaking roles and an unspeakable photographer. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play. Single (hotel reception) set. Structurally in two acts, but in length it's on the boundary between a one-act and a two-act (it could occupy a whole evening's theatre or be accompanied by a shorter piece.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A double-booked wedding reception at a hotel causes havoc for the brides, grooms, manager, receptionist, and the attendees of a conference that is supposed to be happening at the same time! However, it soon transpires that the double-booking is not the only coincidence they will have to deal with. |
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| Tyndale's Nativity by Paul Cockcroft |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, focusing on the spoken words rather than the actions. |
| Synopsis | A sombre presentation of the Nativity story taken from Matthew and Luke, based on the translation by William Tyndale in 1534. |
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| UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
| Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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