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Contact by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, simple set (a park bench) no props. |
Synopsis | In the park, Simon and Alice are both waiting... |
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Daddy's Day by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on a simple park bench set. |
Synopsis | Three men meet in the park where they are watching over the children they’re responsible for. Talk turns to the lives they lead, and they decide to try and meet up for a day without kids. It does not go as expected. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Donor by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again). |
Synopsis | The Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Freshly Laid by Frank Gibbons Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a park - simple bench setting. |
Synopsis | The elderly ladies are catching up with the latest - on hens, ducks, and possible other roostings. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Gerald's Bench by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Two men - Gerald and Daniel, meet in a park. Neither are what they appear to be. The park bench is home to Gerald, but he has an unusual reason for being there which involves the unsuspecting Daniel. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Girls of Autumn by Paul Barile |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy, structurally in two acts but of one-act length, on a split (park bench/jewellery store) set. US English. |
Synopsis | The legendary Summer Set - an all-woman jewel-thief circle from the 1970s - has retired to a quiet life. In their early sixties, they seem content, until the elusive Autumn Diamond makes it way to their little patch of the earth. Enter a mysterious visitor and an old friend-turned-nemesis, and the race is on to steal the diamond and go out in style. |
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Harsh Lights by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with two settings (living room and park bench). Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Genevieve has had a turbulent time at secondary school, but events take a darker turn after cruel and thoughtless remarks from a teacher about her dancing abilities. She responds by making false accusations of sexual harassment, with severe consequences for the teacher and for Genevieve's parents. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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How Will I Know You? by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Armed with a red rose and a book of poetry, eternal spinster Rosalie hopes to meet the man of her dreams. His on-screen photo may look like Brad Pitt, but will the real guy measure up? And can a chance meeting on a park bench save Rosalie from a Date Worse then Death? |
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I'm Worried About Our Planet by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary comedy monologue. No set requirements, but a park bench, mackintosh and flat cap would be advantageous. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | From the platform of his park bench, Gerald Grimble has some concerns that he wishes to share with us. |
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Kissing the Ground 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 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, poignant drama. Not much set, but a chance to wheel-out the park bench again. |
Synopsis | Freda is sitting on her favourite bench when she meets an elderly jogger who tells her he's in training for the London Marathon. She needs to know the whole story, and discovers the tragedy that is keeping the jogger going. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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