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Imperfect Speakers by Wally Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Gibson is written male but could, conceivably, be female. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play - something of a political thriller. Simple set - the interpreters' booth at an international conference - which could even, at a pinch, be played front-of-curtain (though it requires a few small desks). Includes swearing. |
Synopsis | Andy and Nigel are two old school friends reunited whilst translating at an international environmental summit. Nigel has always been a rabble-rouser but Andy and Ingrid, a German translator with a teddy bear, both realize that his responsibility as a diplomatic translator and his interest in politics overlap a little too keenly. |
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The Importance Of Peaches by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting |
Synopsis | The Southbury Players Committee is meeting to discuss the group's poor record of success. Members are looking for a big idea to revive the group's fortunes, but when all seems lost, salvation comes from an unexpected source. |
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In At The Deep End by Kate Phimy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch, with an optional - living room - setting. |
Synopsis | Shirley's mid-life crisis continues as she searches for something to take her out of the rut of domesticity, but husband Pete wants the quiet life. He surprises Shirley as she secretly rehearses for her very odd new hobby, but as it happens - all turns out rather well. |
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In God's Office by Damian Trasler |
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 | Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set. |
Synopsis | A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God. |
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In Out by Bruce Hunt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could conceivably be female or a mixture. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Ako is a new kid in school, and he has a great game on his phone. Sadly Chock decides he's not cool, and leads Ako's new friends to bully him. |
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In Profile by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light-hearted short with good roles for 2F, 1M. Easy to stage (two locations in one set, but just created by furniture and lighting) and could fit easily into a programme of shorts. |
Synopsis | Emma hopes to find the perfect partner for her brother Chris. So when she hijacks his laptop and starts chatting to Sally, what better way than to pretend to be him? This could be Emma's best effort at matchmaking since Jane Austen. But when Chris gets home, he's not amused. He thought she was only dog-sitting. |
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In Sanity by Eleanor Hough |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for two men. No set. The props are all coats. |
Synopsis | There are two men, of that we can be sure. Everything else is subject to negotiation. They may be involved in a murder and trying to flee the scene, but first one of them has to figure out how to drive, and if they're friends, or lovers or brothers or even who they are. |
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In the Bookshop by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One of the characters is assumed to be male, given that in the character name is 'man', however this does not really seem to be necessary! |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A bookseller tries to pre-empt his customer's requests for books. |
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In the Computer Shop by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Short comedy sketch. Single set - represent a computer shop as simply as you can! |
Synopsis | A customer struggles with the complexities of the computer market or, depending on your point of view, a techie struggles with the complexities of humantity. |
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In the Gallery by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Scream and the Security Guard are written as male. In theory, they could undergo gender reassignment! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Whimsical ten-minute play in which two paintings converse. Single set - an art gallery, mainly with two large frames, simple props. |
Synopsis | It's night time in the gallery and the portraits of the Mona Lisa and the Scream are talking art... |
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