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Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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Camp David by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An energetic and witty comedy. Minimal in staging/cast but hits a nice range of emotional and comic beats. (Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
Synopsis | On a trip camping in the wilderness, supposedly to fix their failing marriage, David plans to murder Fay. Fay, however, has other ideas. |
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Camping by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute comedy play. Single, simple set (a camp site office). |
Synopsis | A truculent campsite owner in France is giving some English clients the run-around and making a tidy sum. We discover he's not all he seems, except in the matter of his skulduggery. |
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Covered by Rachel Ihasz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play featuring three teenage girls in a single woodland camp setting. |
Synopsis | Three friends are sharing their monthly camping trip but Trace feels left out. When Erin leaves, she confronts her old friend Marcy but learns more than she was prepared for. |
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Enjoying the Outdoors by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch set on a camping ground. |
Synopsis | It's a man's world in the great outdoors, but sometimes a few extra luxuries help. |
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Fear is a Reaction, Courage is a Decision by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. The interesting, unconventional set-up of the collapsed shop allows for a different way into the theme of abusive relationships. Could make a powerful festival piece. |
Synopsis | When the roof of a camping shop collapses, the customers and staff are trapped among the rubble, injured and in darkness. It falls to panic-stricken but uninjured Donna to care for the others, but her selfish boyfriend Jason just wants her to care for him. |
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The Fire Pit by John Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One adult male, three teenagers with playing ages of around 14. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hard-hitting, thought- (and discussion-) provoking short play. |
Synopsis | Church elder Nigel takes his 14 year old daughter Jessica and two of her male friends on a weekend camping trip. Jessica doesn't want to share a tent with Nigel, and only one of her friends can spot the telltale signs of child abuse. |
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Happy Campers by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters range in age from 15 to 60. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act comedy drama. Single outdoor set (a campsite with tents!) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A comedy with a bite to it, this tells the story of a family gathering in the Yorkshire countryside to scatter the ashes of a man with a dark history. There are revelations all round and an unexpected treasure hunt. As the tag line for one of the productions put it, The excitement is in tents. |
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I Remember When by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three on-stage characters plus four off-stage (including two children) who might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single camp-site setting. |
Synopsis | John looks forward to re-visiting his childhood holiday campsite but his wife Sheila is not so sure, particularly when John insists his curmudgeonly mother come along too. |
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Sunny Side Up by Stephen Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both character written male but could be changed to female. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch. A dark comedy sketch. Simple set. |
Synopsis | Mr Cruthers is looking to sort out his stay at the Sunny-Side-Up campsite, but it's more than a little unusual. Not least because some of the helpful staff are a bit on the - er - dead side. |
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