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I'm Worried About Our Planet by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary comedy monologue. No set requirements, but a park bench, mackintosh and flat cap would be advantageous. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | From the platform of his park bench, Gerald Grimble has some concerns that he wishes to share with us. |
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Kissing the Ground 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 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, poignant drama. Not much set, but a chance to wheel-out the park bench again. |
Synopsis | Freda is sitting on her favourite bench when she meets an elderly jogger who tells her he's in training for the London Marathon. She needs to know the whole story, and discovers the tragedy that is keeping the jogger going. |
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Kit Kat Man by James Addis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An efficient spy drama - like a compact Le Carré. Realistic dialogue leading to a surprising but well-planted twist. Simple set - another chance to wheel-out the park bench. |
Synopsis | Moscow, near the end of the Cold War. Paula Wilson seeks to coax the defector Gerald Soames back to Britain, ostensibly as a means of undermining the intelligence Soames has given to the Soviets. In reality, her motives are more sinister. |
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The Last Waltz by Johnny Grim This play won the author the Best Writer award at the 2009 Perth ITA (Independent Theatre Association) Dramafest. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two protagonists are an Australian and Australian of Indian origin. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with elements of black comedy!) Single set with two locations - a taxi and a park bench. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Shane Grantham plans revenge on the man who stole his wife. He requests a taxi to take him to the place where the man lives. For driver Krishnan Singh, this is just another routine call, and his passenger just another face in the crowd. A chance meeting between two strangers, two men from very different worlds, who on this one night discover that love is universal. |
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Looking for Nancy by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tight, efficient dramatic (somewhat melodramatic) sketch set on a ferry (indicated by a ship's rail and a bench). |
Synopsis | Edith is heading to the mainland with her daughter, Nancy, to do some shopping, but the little girl hasn’t been seen anywhere on the ferry. |
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Love at Twilight [One-Act Play] by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama with a single (garden bench) setting. An extended version of the short play of the same name. |
Synopsis | The residents and management at Glossop Hall care home are discomforted by single residents Clive and Liz firstly sharing a bed and then deciding to run off together. However, all become reconciled to it and enlightened to the possibilities open to them, even at their age. |
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Love at Twilight [Short Play] by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short romantic drama with a single (garden bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Clive and Liz are residents of a care home and have found themselves attracted to each other. Liz is unsure about falling into a serious relationship but Clive has other ideas. Events at the home lead them to take a significant step forward. |
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Lucky Penny by Carol Kline |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The coach and robber are written male. Could, possibly, be female. Two of the characters - including the central character, Bench Man - are silent. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch with a single set - a park bench. |
Synopsis | A man sitting on a bench finds a penny at his feet. Picking it up, he suddenly finds himself the recipient of three doses of good fortune. See a penny... |
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Lunch Break by Frances A. Lewis Performance by The British Players gained an 'Oustanding Production' award at the Eastern States Theatre Association Original Works Festival, 2010 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play with a simple set. First published in December 2012, republished with minor changes in June 2024. |
Synopsis | Two very different people meet on a park bench - a man of the road and a music lover. Can they find enough common ground for the music lover to explain his fascination with 'The Phantom of the Opera'? |
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The Meeting In The Park by Peter Wade |
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 | A short play, with a simple (bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Two men of differing ideals, but with some odd similarities, meet in the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. One, Adolf, is painting a picture of the palace. The other, Josef, is taking the air and watching the people... |
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