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| Holding Up A Mirror by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements (unless three chairs count as a set - in this case, I would count them as props). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A discussion about theatre and the nature of drama... but are you watching them, or are they watching you? |
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| Holiday Lets by Jenny Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on a compound set (two adjacent hotel rooms). |
| Synopsis | Sharon and Ray are enjoying their hotel room, much to the chagrin of Donald, in the next room with his wife Noreen. But Ray’s not so pleased about Sharon going to see strippers, and nor is Donald that Noreen’s gone with her. |
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| Hollingsborough Children's School Nativity Play by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. It is intended that adults play all the roles (despite there being only one or two roles in which the adults play adults). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody of a children's nativity play in which adults take the roles of the children |
| Synopsis | It's Nativity time again, and the kids are having the usual trouble - they can't keep the lines straight, can't pronounce the long words and want to wave at their parents as soon as they're onstage. This play will feel very familiar to a lot of people!
It should be emphasised that this is a parody and is not intended as a children's nativity play! |
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Hologram by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at DK Delight Production's DELIGHT NIGHT 2 playwriting festival in London in 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very short play set at a bar in a restaurant. |
| Synopsis | Pensioners William and Barbara are on a blind date. Things are a little frosty until William demonstrates a new app on his phone which gives them a glimpse of their past - or is it their future? |
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| Home Health by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a split set depicting two bedrooms. US English. |
| Synopsis | David, recovering from difficult surgery, is confined to bed. His elderly bedridden mother-in-law is in another bedroom. Wife Sue bounces back and forth taking care of both of them. The arrival of a home health nurse puts the cat amongst the pigeons as she and David get a little too close. |
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| Honeyrose and Hayseed by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. In the original draft, Agg was written female and Enna male, but it doesn't really matter. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A horror short, with a fun twist on expectations. (Contains considerable levels of gore.) |
| Synopsis | In a seemingly post-apocalyptic Britain, two young people talk of the terrible dangers they face - and of a forbidden trip to a city. |
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| The Honorable Knight by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Nothing remarkable in the characters (apart from the dragon, obviously). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy, playing on the traditions of the knightly stories. Split-stage set, with one permanent location and the other half of the stage doubling for two other locations. |
| Synopsis | Before leaving his castle for the last time, Sir Gawain of the renowned Round Table reluctantly reveals a tale of his exploits that shows him in a less than favourable light. |
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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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| The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
| Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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| Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
| Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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