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| The Director by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy, with a potentially collapsible set. |
| Synopsis | A harassed director is trying to get an advert filmed, but the actors have left. Using handy studio audience members, the roles are filled and directions given to bring off the perfect take. Except the cameraman wasn't filming that one! |
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| Director's Cut by Chris de Vere Hunt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (village hall) setting. |
| Synopsis | The Huntscombe Valley Players are rather unambitious and set in their ways when it comes to choosing the annual village play. Newcomer Tristram, an experienced director, puts the cat amongst the pigeons - with his bold attempts to break the mould. |
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| Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office. |
| Synopsis | This is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'. |
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| Disloyalty by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama |
| Synopsis | After twenty years of marriage Chris is unimpressed when her husband Gary buys her a present of an exercise mat. Having used every excuse possible to delay her exercise session, including housework and a coffee with her best friend Lou, she feels duty bound to give it a go and feel the burn. It is during this exercise session that Gary arrives home and drops the bombshell. |
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| The Diva by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent (and chocolate). |
| Synopsis | It can be hard work coping with a Diva! |
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| Divali Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. A narrator, nine principal characters and (nominally) 30 children for the presentational part of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Piece for a full school class, with a good balance between straight information delivery and drama. |
| Synopsis | An informative and educational assembly about the festival of lights which includes a play of the story of Rama, Sita, Ravana and the origins of Divali. |
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| Do You Come Here Often by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, requiring little more than a bench. (Oh, all right, some actors as well.) |
| Synopsis | Two men meet when they both retreat from their wives to a peaceful bench. They swap tales of woe, then retire to the pub just before their wives enter and give each other the other side of the story. Domestic bliss! |
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| Do You Mind by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in the stalls of a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As the audience settle down in the auditorium to watch a play they find that their lives are all inter-connected in some way This is welcome to some but causes embarrassing difficulties for others. |
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| Do You Remember? by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] In the original performances, it ran between 25 & 30 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, with an informal set - furniture and a few props. |
| Synopsis | In this poignant examination of the effects of dementia we see Doris, who is not as young as she used to be, descend into a confused world through the eyes of her granddaughter Anna as they relive past events. |
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| Dobre Den, Mrs Wilson by Ged Quayle |
| 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 | Ten-minute comedy with distinctly adult themes. Minimal (kitchen) setting. An unusual set-up that allows for a unique form of bonding between the two characters, with cheeky comedy mixed with some emotional connection. |
| Synopsis | Di Wilson meets Khristo, her son's husband-to-be. Just one problem - Khristo can't speak English, and Di speaks nothing but. Safe from understanding, Di confesses a shattering secret. |
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