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| A Too Naughty Cinderella by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Not the Cinderella we know - this one is petulant and shallow to the extent that her Fairy Godmother has disowned her. In this situation, the Ugly Sisters find happiness with Prince Charming and his brother. |
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| Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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| A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
| Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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| Towards the Light by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One popular song suggested for diegetic use throughout the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act supernatural drama on a single set. |
| Synopsis | Twenty-year old Neil has given Poppy, a teenage runaway, shelter in his London flat. But Poppy senses the ghostly presence of a previous tenant and calls in a medium to exorcise the property. No-one quite realises the potency of Letitia, a heartbroken older spirit seeking reconciliation with her long-lost daughter. Love, laughter and dance bring in a final understanding between the two worlds and herald optimism for the future. |
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| Toxic by Chris Hicks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, dark, comic monologue. It's set in a bar, so might work particularly well in a sketch evening in a cabaret venue (tables and a bar), just by turning a spotlight on the actor at the bar. |
| Synopsis | Steven's criminal past would appear to be at odds with his new job, working in a pub. |
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| Traffic Stop by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy play. Single set (or almost complete lack of set - the couple are, in theory, in a car, but this need only be indicated by a little movement), |
| Synopsis | An argumentative couple have difficulties with each other and a traffic cop on their way to an important appointment. |
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| The Traffic Warden by TLC Creative |
| 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 comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | A candidate attends an interview for the role of Traffic Warden and is introduced to some details of the package on offer.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
| Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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| A Tragic Tale of Unintentional Deception by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short tragi-comedy for kids. Fairy tales meet day-time television! |
| Synopsis | Fairy Godmothers Trinny and Suzannah are going to surprise Cinders, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with the news that they are all seeing the same Prince Charming, but a clumsy Floor Manager gives the game away to disastrous effect. |
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| Tramp Business by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch on a simple park bench set. |
| Synopsis | Whatever way of making money is good for Alan, a cunning tramp who wants to sell bench tickets to everyone else sleeping in the park. His unusual business, however, doesn’t keep him from expressing sympathy and concern for his fellows during their ongoing and miserable wanderings. |
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