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| Oxford English Destiny by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short prose monologue - charm and pathos rather than outright comedy. |
| Synopsis | Elderly Robert reminisces about a 'funny old game' he’s played on and off throughout his life, in which a word chosen at random from the dictionary determines one's destiny. |
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| Packaging by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A frustrated rant about the stuff that comes with (and frequently prevents you getting at) the stuff you buy. |
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| Paging The Future by Andrew Hull |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama |
| Synopsis | Michael urgently needs to amend his will before something dreadful happens. His solicitor friend Graham arrives and is bewildered by the necessity for urgency - until that is Michael relates the strange events of his youth which are played out before us. The lawyer comes to believe the story and makes the requested changes. However, there is one final twist before the lights go out. |
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| A Pair of Old Gossips by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a single domestic setting (limited to chairs and a table). |
| Synopsis | They're not really gossips, so they say. What they do is pass the time of day... |
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| A Pair of Vents by Peter Appleton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. At least one of the ventrilloquists' dummies is female, but, when all's said and done, they are supposed to be ventrilloquists' dummies. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set (could be done front-of-curtain with just a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | Two ventriloquists and their 'dummies' give us a very funny exchange of verbal dexterity, to the point at which the dummies take over the act. |
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| Palindrome by Scott Kingsnorth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act, palindromic drama |
| Synopsis | Set a dystopian factory, where the senseless make-work is disturbed only by the enforced dancing and the occasional new arrival, we discover that things can change and still stay the same. |
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| Panda Solution by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set required. |
| Synopsis | An expert in breeding pandas in captivity explains a radical new programme... |
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| Pandemonium by Jonny Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Whilst most of the denizens of the nether-world are written male, they could, with just a few changes of personal pronoun, be played female. Characters include Cerberus, the three-headed dog. Flexible chorus of demons. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A somewhat divine comedy! Multiple settings, but minimal staging requirements |
| Synopsis | Azaeus is unhappy with his lot. He wants more from being a demon - a look at the Devil's record collection, for a start. He is, after all, reputed to have the best tunes. Azaeus rallies the legions of Hell and they overthrow Satan in an exorcism ceremony. But with Satan gone, Hell begins to collapse, and it's not long before Azaeus has to go to Heaven to beg a favour from the Almighty... |
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| Pandora's Box by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. One human, five narrators and a bunch of anthropomorphic personifications. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children with a simple single setting. |
| Synopsis | The story of Pandora's box is told in an accessible and light hearted way with added educational opportunities as a bonus. |
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Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... |
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