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Politically Correct by Jennifer Marie Sancho Runner-up in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The four female characters are intended to be accurate representations of historical people. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act drama with a single 'common room' setting. |
Synopsis | Four inmates of an assylum rebel. Jane Austen, Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and Florence Nightingale must work together to agree a plan to escape from their incarceration. |
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Questions by Susan Vesey Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Edward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it. |
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Revelations by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play that offers a simple set and complex characters, emotional involvement and a satisfactory resolution - plus a few laughs along the way. |
Synopsis | A couple brought in to see a specialist about their son's unusual medical condition come to realise that they have more to contend with and less in common than they thought. |
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The Room by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters cover a range of ages from twenties to seventies. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set - character study with a rather sinister edge! |
Synopsis | Four women of varying ages and infirmities enter a room, supposedly in a rest home/hospice called 'Pleasantways'. They're told to enter the room but not to leave. The women open up to each other about the circumstances that brought them to this place and their feelings about the treatment they have received. Exploration of their current position leads to a sinister discovery... |
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Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Emotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient. |
Synopsis | Beth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head... |
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Sammy by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Brilliantly written full-length play about coping with the long-term medical problems of a family member (who never appears on the stage). Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Jenny and Mark have a young son, Sammy, who has Prader Willi syndrome, a compulsive eating disorder. Mark wanted a son desperately, but is shocked by Sammy's condition and the work it will entail. Christine and Phil next door can't have children at all, so they are constant visitors. Eighteen years of family strife in one play. |
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The Shelter Secrets by Deborah Heath |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters, plus two offstage voices. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play, suitable for secondary age or youth theatre, with split staging to enable multiple rapid scene changes. |
Synopsis | Taking shelter from an air raid in their school's boiler room, four children swap secrets in the form of stories. They're surprised to find their tales all meet up and form a larger narrative, one that's completed by their teacher. |
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Shoes by Robert M. Barr |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (park bench) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | When an older man meets a homeless, shoeless, middle-aged man in a park, the older one makes an offer that is both comforting and insulting. But when the younger one finds out the reason for the offer, he is intrigued. |
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Sleeping With Beauty by Stuart Ardern (devised by YT2) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. A small number of roles are written to be doubled, but otherwise the casting is very flexible. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for the senior echelons of a youth theatre company. Multiple settings but done with just a single piece of furniture - a bed. Contains disturbing themes. |
Synopsis | Rebelling against her secure upbringing, Mel suffers a major trauma. How will this affect her daughter's life? A dark exploration of destiny as fairytale collides with modern life. |
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