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| Peter and The Violin Teacher by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both written male - one old, eccentric adult, and one young, precocious boy. Could be played with the ages as written, but could also be played by two children or two adults. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Single set and, at its minimum, a single prop (in the form of a violin). |
| Synopsis | Peter is sent to the great Dr Villiamanovittikovskevitschki and the doctor endeavours to overcome Peter's Englishness in order to teach him the violin. But Peter has a question for the Doctor. |
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| Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
| Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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| The Peterloo Principle by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A manager is having trouble seeing past the firm’s regulations when it comes to a friend’s problems, so she takes him back to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 to give him some perspective. |
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| The Petting Zoo by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 sketch set in the office of a zoo. |
| Synopsis | A Petting Zoo seems a great tourist attraction but perhaps it could have been planned a little better... |
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| Petty Thievery by Molly McCluskey |
| 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 | Ten-minute comedy play, single domestic set (indicated by a few props). |
| Synopsis | Mary comes home to find evidence that her flat has been burgled. Policeman Patrick helps her to solve the case. |
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| The Phantom And The Phoenix by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The characters are largely written male, but none of them need to be! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single set (a museum, which could be endearingly minimalist). |
| Synopsis | The Phoenix, a priceless statue, is brought from an ancient temple deep in the Amazon jungle and exhibited at a failing museum. The presence of The Phoenix can save the museum from closure. Unfortunately the statue is a sure target for ace thief - The Phantom. Can museum security, assisted by Inspector Fletcher (of The Yard) thwart the master criminal? Don't put money on it. |
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| The Phantom Thief by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are all teenagers, though with a variety of ages. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Adventure/mystery for teenagers. Two very simple sets |
| Synopsis | A boy has gone missing. His disappearance coincides with a series of robberies. Can his friends find him and unravel the connection - or is their visit to the haunted house just harmless fun? |
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| Phone Blackmail by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | While searching for his lost dog, owner Ben receives a sinister phone call. |
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| Phone for Dinner by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. A modern comedy of telephone manners. |
| Synopsis | Terry has invited three of his old school friends over for a reunion dinner, but the evening is interrupted when each of the friends receives a phone call. |
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| Pie Eyed by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | The rest of Detective Inspector Whalley's team put aside their differences and combine their various investigative skills to save Constable Hitchcock's career when he appears to have committed gross misconduct.
'Pie Eyed' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook. |
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