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| The Grilling by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch for two people and a pub table. |
| Synopsis | Flamboyant actor Gregory Walton sits in a pub hoping to be recognised by fans. He is approached by Ms Price, but discovers she is no fan when she starts to interrogate him about his past activities. |
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| Grimm Sisters by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny sketch with some self-referential fourth wall-breaking humour and a playfully feminist twist on the Brothers Grimm. |
| Synopsis | It's 1812, and Johanna and Wilhelmina Grimm - under their pseudonyms of Jacob and Wilhelm - are hard at work on their latest tale. If only their characters weren't so hell-bent on sabotage, and if only their moustaches didn't look so suspiciously fake. |
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| Gruff - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves. (The elves could be played by two choruses - the mode of narration is song!) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two songs (one reprised three times) are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Very short musical play for kids. Single set - a troll bridge. |
| Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
| Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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| Guilt by Robbie Flowers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One of the characters is nominally a child, but the role is unlikely to be within the range of many children of the appropriate age. The author suggests that it should be played with 'an obvious air of innocence'. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short emotional, possibly edgy, play. Minimal set, but a significant prop (a chest). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Angela is suffering for something she did. Until she agrees to talk about it, Sally won't let her out of the box. As Angela opens up, we find that Sally has more than a passing involvement in Angela's suffering. |
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| Guy Fawkes Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst the Gunpowder Plot conspirators were all male, that should not matter for the purposes of presenting this piece! |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short presentation piece for kids. No set requirements or props, though 17th century costumes would give it some style! |
| Synopsis | A short presentation for a class on the subject of the gunpowder plot and it's most famous conspirator, Guy Fawkes.
The producer's copy of the script contains copious notes about the plot and its background. |
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| H for Halloween by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A children's introduction to the traditions of Halloween. No set required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Pumpkin, Jack O'Lantern and Miss Witch assisted by some of their creepy, scary friends tell the story of the origins of Halloween. |
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| Hack by Andy Haynes |
| 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 play, sending-up the pretentions of a writer and his agent. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Harold has written another play, just in time for a meeting with his agent Morty, who's dropped round to read him the reviews of his last play. It's not good news, but is Harold a man to be defeated by bad reviews? Maybe. |
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| Halloween in the Lighthouse by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are teenagers |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short spooky play for a cast of teenagers. Single set, halloween props and costumes. |
| Synopsis | Seven girls plan a creepy Halloween party in a lighthouse, but it gets creepier still when a bunch of boys turn up dressed as Pirates. Their captain is creepier than they are, and things take a chilling turn when he meets the girl dressed as a princess... |
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| Halloween Party Time by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ghost story set in a High School gym. Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Nick's and Pat's preparations for the High School Halloween party are disturbed by a couple of strangers. |
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