compendium of mini-works

Last year I had a one minute play performed in a festival in Noo Yawk, so here's a (borrowed) idea: a writers' self-indulgence, sorry - festival, of very short works where the only thing in common from one piece to the next is a limited number of key stroke characters [stage directions and musical annotations included]. The compendium of works would be an extraordinary clash of ideas... A play with 200 characters, anybody?

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Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 6, 2009 at 23:08
Ah, the dry, precise and delightful McAvoy wit; who'd have thought meta-theatre was possible in so compacted a form.
Permalink Reply by Ashley McAvoy on October 6, 2009 at 1:59
Playing the Percentages

B
I’ve been thinking.

A
About?

B
Percent.

A
And?

B
Means per 100. A whole of 100 parts.

A
So?

B
Literally speaking 200% is two wholes of 100 parts. 1 doubled.

A
It’s all Greek to me.

B
The concept is. The words are French.

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Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 7, 2009 at 0:17
Here's another one:
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Permalink Reply by Othniel Smith on October 12, 2009 at 21:48
It's all gone quiet over here. Another effort:


MILLICENT

I acknowledge, sir, that I possess neither youth nor beauty.

I am, however, shamefully immoderate in my unspoken lusts.

Fulsome sonnets might be woven on the theme of my unfettered bosom.

My maidenhead craves your patronage.
Permalink Reply by Peter Cox MBE on October 13, 2009 at 3:01
Othniel, what a fine piece Millicent is! I fairly swooned in my new born intimacy with her.
Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 13, 2009 at 3:49
La! A bodice ripper in our number. I am aflutter to see this one staged...
Permalink Reply by Othniel Smith on October 13, 2009 at 4:54
Cheers - do you think we could get Emma Thompson?
Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 15, 2009 at 5:50
Why aim so low? Why not hold a fine actress from this on-line NTW community as the object of your ambition?
Permalink Reply by Neil Bebber on October 13, 2009 at 22:51
As always a bit late to the party but please accept the following as what I hope is the first of many. I'm afraid that the addictive quality of this task may lead to the forming of a "mini-works writers anonymous". My name's Neil Bebber. It's been 3 days since I mini-worked...


A We’ve got 200 letters

B You mean words

A No I mean letters

B It’s not enough

A It’s enough

B But

A Just tell them

B No you tell them

A We agreed

B No you agreed

A Don’t start

B Me start?

A We haven’t got time for this

B Always rules

A Just tell them

B OK, OK.
Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 15, 2009 at 5:48
I think the Bee Gees put it best when they sang: You think that I don't even mean a single word I say. / It's only words, and words are all I have, to take
your heart away.
Nice words, Neil. But what's it called? The first three characters spell the word awe...
Permalink Reply by Ian Staples on October 16, 2009 at 3:10
And another one!

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No Peace For The Wicked.

Lights up on 1& 2.

1 shakes the hand of 2.

2 turns & 1 strangles 2.

1 drags the body of 2 off stage.

3 enters.

1 returns.

1: How many more of you are there?

3: Hundreds? Thousands?

1 shakes the hand of 3.

3 turns and 1 strangles 3.

Blackout
Permalink Reply by Terry Victor on October 16, 2009 at 4:33
Keep 'em coming. It's more fun than therapy.

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