Short Plays
(less than 30 minutes)
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Cast: 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
When a green-fingered vicar and his wife begin digging up the vicarage lawn for "unusual" flower beds, the gossiping village of Little Gittings starts to rot from the inside out. Following a series of suspicious deaths and an explosion of local bees, a woman accused of a scandalous affair with the vicar must uncover the truth behind the couple’s botanical obsession before she becomes the next thing buried in the garden.
A 10 minute version of Garden Fate.
Cast: 1M, 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
Following the loss of her closest relatives, Jess re-visits old haunts, and finds her future.
Cast: 1m, 3f, 2 any (with doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
A headstrong girl and a cursed prince must find the beauty within to save an enchanted kingdom from an eternal winter.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 8, gender neutral (with doubling)
Run time: 20 - 50 minutes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier was Andersen’s first original fairy story, and it sets the trend for what was to follow. It contains many of his trademark features, most notably the tragic central character and the doomed love between the soldier and the ballerina.
The production comes to life with simple physical theatre movements, optional dance sequences, puppetry, and mime.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 4F
Run time: 10 minutes
A support group, set up for individuals with a chocolate addiction, meets weekly under the guise of being a book club. A 10 minute version of The Chocoholics Book Club.
Cast: 1M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
Mistreated by her stepfamily and reduced to a scullery maid, a young woman uses a magical transformation to attend a royal ball, where she must capture a prince’s heart before the stroke of midnight reveals her true identity.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 3F
Run time: 10 minutes
When you are waiting at the entrance to the afterlife, the jury will decide your destiny!
Cast: 2M, 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a dreamer and his rat-catching cat arrive in a London infested by the evil King Rat, they must embark on a perilous high-seas journey to clear their names and save the city from a rodent plague.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 1M, 1F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After trading his family’s last cow for a handful of magic beans, a destitute farm boy climbs a colossal beanstalk into the clouds to steal a giant’s treasures and save his mother from starvation.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 2f
Run time: 10 minutes
Coming to terms with her mother's grief, Skye tries to re-connect at a music festival, which turns out to be anything but.
Cast: 1M, 3F
Run time: 10 minutes
Was it suicide or murder? Following the sudden death of their father, two sisters with opposite temperaments - one practical and reserved, the other passionate and impulsive - are thrust into poverty by their older, estranged brother.
Cast: 1M, 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
After a life changing accident, Brian continues to go to work day after day, even participating in the Christmas party - but nobody can bear to tell him that his wife is dead.
Cast: 3M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a penniless miller’s son inherits nothing but a talking cat, the crafty feline dons a pair of magical boots and embarks on a swashbuckling quest to outwit an evil ogre, trick a King, and win a Princess’s heart.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 2m, 3f (with doubling)
Run time: 10 minutes
Most people take grapes to hospital; others take pyjamas
Cast: 1F, 2 any
Run time: 10 minutes
Pigeons sit on a lamppost lamenting the loss of habitat in the local park, and vying for the crumbs that humanity drops.
Cast: 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After escaping an assassination attempt by her jealous stepmother, a displaced princess must team up with a cynical, solitary pixie to reclaim her kingdom and prove that true strength comes in small packages.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.
Cast: 2M, 3F (with doubling)
Run time: 25 minutes
A Live Radio Play.
Following a deliberate and violent car crash into a brick wall, a severely injured man - referred to by various loved ones as JJ, John, Johnny, and Jonathan Emery - lies comatose in a hospital Intensive Care Unit. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he delivers a cynical interior monologue about the irony of pyjamas marking life's biggest milestones.
Why is he there?
Cast: 2M, 2 any
Run time: 10 minutes
Ebony and Ivory vie to create the best musical alternative to harps beyond the pearly gates.
Cast: Flexible casting, gender neutral
Run time: 25 minutes
A youth theatre play in one or two acts, adapted from the tales of Beatrix Potter.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.