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Long Live Pantomime by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Rhyming monologue (no requirements for set or props). |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to the traditions of British pantomime. |
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Looking for Mr Evil by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Since we are looking for Mr Evil, one of the characters is clearly male. The other is an interviewer, and they come in all shapes and sizes. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. A sci-fi parody. Single set - just a desk and a few papers. |
Synopsis | A hopeful candidate attends and interview for the position of Ultimate Galactic Dictator... |
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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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Lorelei by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Lorelei has a playing age of around 23. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dramatic monologue for a young woman, Single set (three pieces of furniture) and a few props. |
Synopsis | Lorelei's story is a sad one, of a life gone wrong and a struggle to cope with a new identity and the loss of the past. |
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Losing Purpose by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten speaking parts, two non-speaking (who could double with other roles). |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short light comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | Having abandoned his car, a man is desperate to find someone who can direct him through the tortuous one way system and back on the road to London. Everyone is willing to stop and talk, but no one has the help he needs. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Losing Purpose' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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The Loss of Atlantis 2 by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props. |
Synopsis | Subtitled 'An Atlantean at the Court of King Hotcotapetappl'. Three survivors from the deluge compare strategies for introducing Atlantean civilization to the savage land on which they have been washed up. The sequel to the 'Loss of Atlantis' (though it also works as an independent play.) |
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The Loss of Atlantis by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props. |
Synopsis | Atlantis is in danger of sinking beneath the waves - but wait! A committee is on hand to save it! |
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Lost and Found by Mike Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are labeled 'boy' and 'girl' because they have to be called something. This does not imply anything about their ages. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play, structured in two acts (because there are definitely two phases to the action - with and without suitcase), but actually a bare stage or front-of-curtain script. Very snappy dialogue. Contains mild bad language. |
Synopsis | Someone has lost a suitcase, and someone has found a suitcase. The pair meet up, trying to determine if the suitcase found is the same as the suitcase lost, despite mutual suspicion. |
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The Lost Horse by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one song (which occurs four times with different lyrics) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | Chinese parable from the 'Huainanzi,' written in the 2nd century B.C., told as a short play for children interspersed with the verses of a song. |
Synopsis | One day Sun Wen's horse runs away, leaving the lady and her son, Sun Jun, to plow the field alone. She doesn't accept this as a misfortune, however, and soon enough the horse returns with a mate. But she's not convinced this is a blessing either... |
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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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The Lost Sheep by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
Synopsis | A chance meeting on a train - a reflection on Christianity in every-day life. |
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