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| A Case of Good Intentions by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone. |
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| Cash in the Attic by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
| Synopsis | It's another edition of 'Cash in the Attic' and the team find some amazing items in Herr Schutzstaffel's house. |
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| The Cast Is Die by Peter Robbie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play with a great self-referential twist on drama about drama. It has some silly comedy while retaining a strong thriller element, and the dialogue is snappy and characterful. |
| Synopsis | Five members of an amateur drama group meet to plan their next production. Tensions, bitchiness and backstabbing abound. Their script is about five members of a drama group, who meet to plan their next production - a meeting which ends in madness and murder. Can the cast bring life to the script or does, as it seems, the script have a life of its own? |
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| Casual-ty by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak... |
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| The Cat and the Dog by Victor Callen |
| 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 | This is, essentially, a talking heads piece, but since the heads are those of a cat and a dog, the comedy could be enhanced by costume or make-up. (Some animal content.) |
| Synopsis | A simple conversation piece between a cat and a dog about the relative merits and disadvantages of their places in life and the household. |
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The Cat and The Monkey by Charlotte Court
Production by Jinx Theatre Company scooped the Daniel Penfilled Award for Best Actress at the BC Drama Festival in 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedic-drama in one act, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | At first it appears that a marriage guidance session for Sophie and James is in progress - using the audience as the counsellor. But as all of their simmering grievances come to the fore, it gradually becomes clear that something completely different and poignant is happening. |
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| The Cat Club by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are cats (anthropomorphised and inhabiting a very human environment). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a comedy and character piece with a single bar-room set. |
| Synopsis | A group of cats meet up at their regular haunt to share some sad news about one of their number. They remember her fondly (in the main) and decide how they will go on. |
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Catapult by David Lovesy
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and an offstage voice. Roger and Geoffrey are written male but gender is unimportant and names can be changed to fit the gender of the available actors. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Two medieval peasants try out a new, quick, cheap form of transport. |
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| Catch As Catch Can by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, in a single set. A comedy, which is not what one expects from Othello. |
| Synopsis | An alternative history of Othello, playing with our preconceptions of Shakespeare's characters. A worldly wise Iago is giving advice about women to a distraught Cassio, who cannot bear to see Desdemona married to Othello. But Iago's wife seems to be openly flirting with the General, and Desdemona isn't happy... |
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| The Catch by Stan Duncan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two characters are offstage voices and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act melodramatic thriller with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Paul, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, has something otherworldly about him. As he explains the reason he is in hospital to student nurse Yvonne, his strange and intriguing past is slowly revealed. |
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