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About Life by Rob Ricards Published: 16 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny one-act play with some dramatic depth. Simple to stage (single set, could be just a table and chairs). |
Synopsis | Mabel's slobbish, bullying husband Jack has died in the night, and she's glad to be rid of him. Her friend Gladys is initially shocked by Mabel's attitude, but soon joins her in planning what to do with the newfound freedom. |
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Aegyptus by Ged Quayle Published: 19 June 2025 New |
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 | A dramatic sketch set in ancient Egypt for two (middle-aged or older) actors. Period costumes optional. |
Synopsis | It’s 525 BC. The Persian army has crushed the Egyptians, killed the pharaoh, and now is poised to take Thebes. Inside the city, the queen of Egypt and a priest face their final night and prepare for the inevitable. |
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Bigger Fish by Clive David Lloyd Williams Published: 6 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Crime drama from a slice of 1960s British history. Multiple sets, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama. (Could be paired with a shorter play for an evening of one-act drama, or stand on its own.) |
Synopsis | Policeman 'Nipper' Read sees The Great Train Robbery as a chance, not just to make his mark in the police force, but to get the chance to go after the bigger fish - starting with the Kray twins. It’ll take time, but he's a determined man. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Jpeg image by Jo Goodberry designed to form the basis for a poster for 'Bigger Fish' by Clive David Lloyd Williams
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Branwell: The Brontë Brother by Joan Greening Published: 12 June 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single set. |
Synopsis | The Brontë Family are in dire straits. Charlotte, Emily and Anne's book of poetry has failed to sell, and their alcoholic, drug-addicted brother Branwell has squandered their money and failed to hold down a job. As Branwell and Emily discuss their situation, they believe they see the ghost of their dead sister Maria, and Branwell has an idea - involving a manor called Wuthering Heights. |
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Confession by David Weir Published: 19 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The 9 roles are intended to be played by 3 actors (with Actor 1 playing the teenage Kevin throughout, except when narrating as his adult self). |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Energetic one-act comedy. No formal set, just props. Continuous action with location indicated by Kevin's soliloques. Written in Scotland, but the location can be changed at the discretion of the production. |
Synopsis | Kevin's a teenager who wants nothing more than to drift through life and the undying love of 'The One And Only Girl In All The World'. But his Uncle Ignatius has different plans - for Kevin to join the priesthood. |
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Daddy Issues by Ged Quayle Published: 19 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A sketch which transitions satisfyingly from smutty comedy to emotional drama. From the synopsis, you'll deduce that this contains a lot of 'adult' content. |
Synopsis | Sex worker Carla is with a client when he dies of a sudden heart attack, and she finds herself trapped under the corpse. The only person she's able to call for help is her ex-husband. |
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The Doctor of Death by Ged Quayle Published: 22 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 15-minute Grand Guignol sketch. Loose updating of a tale by André de Lorde, with a modern feminist perspective added. It's entertainingly grim and gory, with suitable explanation as to how the goriness is to be staged. |
Synopsis | France, 1899. Once a gifted medical student, Julienne is now stuck being wife to Paul, the doctor at an asylum, who conducts terrible experiments on the prisoners. When Julienne's friend, local landowner Henri, discovers Paul’s secret, bloody violence and revenge ensues. |
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Fallen Angel, Risen Demon by Amy Randall Published: 13 June 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 59 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play (long enough to be split into two parts with an interval if you are so minded). Set split between a nightclub and a coffee bar. |
Synopsis | Samael seems like a grumpy nightclub owner, but when Maggie says he's been shot, his bar manager is surprised to see him later, alive and well. Maggie goes missing and Samael calls in his friend Asher to help him track her down. |
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Farewell by David Titchener Published: 13 May 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Charcter-driven drama in a single set. |
Synopsis | Brothers Tom and Bill have been running the family funeral home business for years. Now their wayward brother Geoff has turned up again, but this time, he doesn't want money, he wants to rejoin the family. |
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Gate Thirteen A by Tony Frier Published: 25 June 2025 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a single airport set. The sequel to Tony Frier's Gate Thirteen. |
Synopsis | In the departure lounge of Marrakech airport, Pauline and Derek encounter Julie and Gary, unaware that the couples’ offspring have been dating each other. Derek is suffering from an accidental laxative overdose and his holdall contents have mysteriously been replaced with S&M gear, while Julie and Gary are on the run from their hotel having stolen their towels. |
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