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Close Family by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful short drama giving us a sensitive take on the socially unacceptable subject of incest. Stage split between two domestic locations. |
Synopsis | Janet, a young university student, is looking forward to her return to university after the summer break. She has exciting plans to move out of the halls of residence in Vancouver to live with her divorced father, Peter who has set up home there with his new partner, Janet’s pregnant Aunt Anne. Back home in Ottawa, Peter's divorced wife Carole is horrified to discover Janet's plans and does her utmost to dissuade her daughter from joining the incestuous home. Janet is insistent that her move to her father's house is in her best interests until she arrives and to her dismay the horror of her mistake is revealed. |
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Closure by Robert Scott People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Luke's birthday party is a lonely affair - there's just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they're involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. |
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The Coat by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy. (Either a long sketch or a very short play!) |
Synopsis | A customer is after some help selecting a coat. The store's Personal Shopping Adviser has other ideas... |
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COBRA by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a meeting room. |
Synopsis | A meeting of the top secret emergency response team covers some new threats... |
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The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Three characters are written male, but they could easily be played from the distaff side. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Tthree short sketches from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Steve Clark.) They could either be played continuously (as three scenes) or split up across an evening of sketches. |
Synopsis | A celebration of the great technological breakthroughs by the boffins of Bletchley Park (and where they inevitably led). |
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Coffee Morning Chaos by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Minimal set and props. |
Synopsis | Some lady volunteers are preparing for the hoards who are about to descend - any moment now! - on a coffee morning. Fun with flapjacks, more scorn than scones and just as much gossip as you'd expect - but when is everyone going to arrive? |
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The Coffee Shop by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies three characters, two of them are played in different eras, so could be done by different actors. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but without need for any particular set. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A coffee shop customer has another encounter with the tyranny of choice! |
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Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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Collateral Damage by George J. Bryjak |
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 | A one act-drama with a single setting of a car, which can be suggested and performed by the actors. Strong language, emotional adult content, US English. |
Synopsis | A US Army captain returns from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, and is met by his wife at the airport. During the drive home, the initial joy of this reunion is shattered. |
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The Colonel's Wife by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with two characters. Adult humour. |
Synopsis | Set in an Officers’ Mess in India during the Raj. Major Parker has been caught 'in delecto flagrante' with the Colonel’s wife. To head off disgrace and ruination of his career, the Major decides to make a full confession to the Colonel - with unexpected results! |
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