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Bonding by Geoff Bamber
Production by Kyleakin Primary School won the juniors' trophy at the SCDA Highland Youth Festival, 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A dysfunctional family and some fully-functional aliens. The character split assumes that the aliens and the tramp are female and that the police officer is male. These parts could easily be changed to suit a different split of actors. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for kids. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Pa Hoskins believes that the family would benefit from a 'bonding' weekend in the countryside where wholesome, healthy, old-fashioned activities will be the order of the day. The family have other ideas. Junior has brought a satellite dish and Cheryl is permanently attached to her mobile phone. What none of the family bargained on was the arrival of a couple of angry aliens, brought crashing to earth by Junior's satellite dish and bent on a rather nasty revenge - at least till help comes from an unexpected quarter! |
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| Book City by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A man enters a book store to complain about his purchase, leading the shop asisstant to explain exactly what it is they sell. |
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The Book Club of Little Witterington by Joan Greening
Best Seller Performance by Edinburgh People’s Theatre won the Edinburgh division of the SCDA one-act festival, 2023 and went on to win best comedy in One Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for five ladies. Minimal set (a sofa and chairs to indicate a living room). Contains a few mild swearwords and several books. |
| Synopsis | The regular ladies of the Book Club, all friends since school, are wary of letting a newcomer to the village join. But there's more to Paula than meets the eye, and she may even have what it takes to get around the appallingly snobbish Belle. |
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| Booted Out by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Since the character is a football, the question of gender is academic. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue (light comedy). Simple set (a table) and a few props.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A wistful sporting reminiscence told from an unusual perspective. |
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| Botany Bother by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Gerald, Geoffrey and Aloysius are written male, but need not be - well, give or take the beard. There are six speaking parts amongst the natives, but there could be many more chanting parts, if you happen to have a spare chorus of natives to hand. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. The majority of characters speak a hitherto undiscovered language. (Fortunately, the script contains a glossary.) |
| Synopsis | A pair of intrepid botanical collectors have an unfortunate encounter with the local inhabitants. |
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| Boy by Janice Sampson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy duologue with a simple single setting in a park. |
| Synopsis | Featuring Boy, a rather foul mouthed assertive West Highland Terrier, and the timid young woman who is dogsitting whilst his owners are away. Disgruntled with the way in which he is being cared for, Boy deliberately disobeys the young woman and, using very adult language, lets the audience know just how he feels. As the tussle for superiority progresses the roles become reversed ending in a newly subservient Boy being dominated by the young woman who, as a result of Boy's behaviour, has found a new self-assurance. |
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| Boy Band by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all vampires and all members of a 'boy band'. (So, whilst there are only four of them, offstage there are hordes of screaming fans!) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for a teenage cast. Single (minimal) 'back-stage dressing room' set. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | The four members ofO Positive are talking after their latest gig - should they be higher in the charts than number forty nine after two hundred years together? Should they wear something other than black? Should they have let their fifth member leave? Pop is hard on vampires too... |
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| Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
| Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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| Brace! Brace! Brace! by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 skit set on the ubiquitous park bench. |
| Synopsis | Two strangers meet on a park bench - Jo, who is trying a novel new approach to get over a fear of flying, and Sam, who consequently loses a sandwich. |
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| Brainstorm by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is an optional ensemble of brain cells |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Minimal set requirements. Opportunities for melodramatic over-acting! |
| Synopsis | The action takes place inside the brain of playwright Ivor Pippin, who is trying to write another melodramatic play. His characters and his brain cells conspire to turn things around, allowing the heroine and villain to escape, and a new play to emerge. |
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