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| The Nightly News by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fantasy performed in the style of a news programme - minimal sets and props for a TV studio and roving reporters. |
| Synopsis | The studio anchors for The Nightly News introduce stories from the lands of Spoonerism, rhyme, hyperbole and cliché. (Only two of which are uncommon in more conventional news programmes.) |
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Nightwalking by Frank Canino
Won third place in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (international play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] This is right at the lower time limit for one-act play festivals, but a brilliant festival piece. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Chamber theatre piece - black-box set, with a stepladder as the sole piece of furniture. The actors communicate through interior monologues and movement. |
| Synopsis | A young wife discovers that her husband is going out at night, when he thinks she is asleep. What should she do? What will she find if she follows him? What will become of their relationship if she follows him or if she does not? |
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| The Ninth Wonder of the World by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The Treasurer is written female, but if fact all the committee members could be either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set at a council committee meeting (so just a table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | An Upper Carworthy Council committee meeting is interrupted by a local resident who has big plans... |
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| No Idea by Charles Dennison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch set in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Synopsis | Fred and Mavis are enjoying a quiet morning in their farmhouse, when a visitor calls in the hopes of finding some antiques of value to purchase. He doesn't really fancy the non-matching candlesticks, but he's very taken with a painting left by the farmer's grandfather. |
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| No Joy! by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch set in a railway platform cafeteria. |
| Synopsis | When Joy chances to meet Bill, her estranged husband of many months, in a railway station cafeteria, they both learn that events have moved on in the life of the other. But which of them is now faring the better? |
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| No Strings Attached by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play with music, set in a puppet tent. |
| Synopsis | Flip and Scratch are fairground puppets, once big stars but now fallen on hard times. Faced with the inevitable decline of their audiences, they discuss their various options. |
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| No Such Thing as Bad Publicity by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | They say there is no such thing as bad publicity... are they right? |
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| No Tongs by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props. |
| Synopsis | Two women leaf through the magazines at a hairdressers. |
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Noah's Ark by Bill Siviter
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Non-speaking parts include 'all the creatures of the earth'! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Verse play, mainly told by narrators (with plenty of scope for a large cast to mime the actions) |
| Synopsis | See the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9! |
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| Noah's Ark [Version 2] by Steven Bergman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The cast includes a number of animals, with an optional crowd of all the animals available! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dramatisation. (The setting is described as a desert! Minimal staging is implied.) |
| Synopsis | The biblical story of Noah brought to life with contributions by a pigeon, a pig, a monkey and a cow. |
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