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Demons by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Comedy sketch. (Minimal set and simple props.) |
Synopsis | A pair of rough, tough policemen prepare for some rigorous physical training. |
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The Deposit by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (bank vault) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | Three rookie thieves believe they've pulled off the heist of the year until one forgets the most important rule - stay focused. |
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The Depot by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tightly scripted one-act comedy with good characters and wordplay. comedy. US English. |
Synopsis | The ticket agent and porter at a desolate train station in the 1900s become concerned over a growing odor within the stacked freight and decide to solve the mystery rather than await the Sheriff's arrival. |
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Der Vordere Platz (The Forward Place) by Henry P. Gravelle Winner - Avalonia monologue competition, November 14, 2017. 'Captains monologue Der Vordere Platz' |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in a submarine and a bedroom. US English. Some adult content. |
Synopsis | The crew of a WW2 German U-boat under enemy fire contemplate their bleak future. Each individual battles to find his own ‘forward place’ and one of them leaves a surprising final legacy. |
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A Desirable Location by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Whilst James is written male, he could be a she without |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in an estate agent's office. |
Synopsis | Can James the estate agent find the right house for Ruth? |
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Desperate Gallery by Sophie Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play set in an art gallery. Contains mild swearing (and art). |
Synopsis | Camelia is a young artist is displaying her work in a local art gallery in the hope of achieving her first sale. Two inept art thieves are the only 'customers' and in her desperation for artistic fame she explores various strategies with them. The arrival of snooty art critic Jorgen Tyson interrupts their planning and his disparaging remarks become increasingly annoying - with fatal consequences! However in a witty final twist his presence may help Camelia to achieve her goal after all. |
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Detective Mimms and The Snaffler by Geoff Bamber Production by Hyde Little Theate awarded the Certificate of Merit (for performers up to 14 years of age), Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, only the King and Queen should be regarded as prescriptive. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple sets, but these are minimal - indicative only, and in any case most of them are stolen during the course of the play. |
Synopsis | Ace sleuth Detective Mimms is called in to oversee the hunt for the daring thief known only as The Snaffler. The Snaffler will, quite literally, snaffle anything and the whole country is in a state of high anxiety. Can Mimms, assisted by PC Flint, halt this alarming crime wave before it is too late? |
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short fantasy melodrama, adapted from the Washington Irving short story. Compèred by rhyming narrators. |
Synopsis | Tom Walker meets the Devil, who offers him buried treasure in exchange for his soul. Eventually Tom agrees to the bargain and becomes a merciless moneylender, hoarding his great fortune. Later, Tom begins to fear damnation and makes a great show of being religious. Despite Tom's newfound piety, the Devil comes for him on a black horse, and Tom is never seen again. |
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The Devil of a Job by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set, divided into earth and hell (as so many sets are). |
Synopsis | Mephistopheles and Lucifer plan to corrupt the soul of an intellectual former demonologist. The demonologist recognises what Mephistopheles is trying to do and succeeds not only in turning him away, but convinces him to do some charity work. |
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The Dial Conspiracy by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Stage crew - optimum number 2, are non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short-ish one act comedy/farce, with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | A crime caper at a remote hotel in the Highlands of Scotland, where weird and wonderful stratagems are used - as a succession of unlikely characters including a surly porter and the driver of a lime green Ferrari, vie with National Security officers. |
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