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| UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
| Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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| Ulysses and the Dogman by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Single set (figurative New York street scene, 1910). |
| Synopsis | A Westerner visits New York to look up an old friend - and finds him regretting the enforced changes of marriage and city life, such as his duty to walk the dog... |
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| Unbitten by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama for teenagers with a simple, or no set. |
| Synopsis | A powerful metaphorical play using vampires to act out some difficult, angst ridden problems facing most young people, particularly girls, encountering puberty. |
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| The Uncomfortable Announcer by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A hardware store decides to increase its sales figures, with some new in-store announcements... which seem to have a certain amount of innuendo. |
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| Undercover Boss by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 funny set-up makes for a good sketch that doesn't outstay its welcome. Needs a desk and two chairs. |
| Synopsis | The new owner of a ballet company and its principal male dancer meet to discuss a recent performance of Giselle, at which the boss had gone undercover. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead
Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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| Underneath At Archie's by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, one-act drama. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Paula are contemplating some renovations, when Paula decides she doesn't want to get rid of the old painting from the nook. Peter is surprised, and this leads to a deep examination of their relationship and their roles as man and woman. |
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| Unearthed by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play - a ghoulish mystery. No set, but Andrew has to appear to be digging a hole! (Props consist of the pleasing combination of a spade and a mobile phone.) |
| Synopsis | As brother and sister Andrew and May dig a hole in the local park at midnight, they unearth more than Andrew had bargained for as the truth behind past horrors is revealed. |
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| Uneven Surfaces by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for two female actors (and an off-stage male). |
| Synopsis | Visiting her widowed grandmother Grace, who lives alone by the sea, Emily discovers the meaning of true love as Grace expounds on her vast collection of sea shells. |
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