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50/50 [Short play] by Jamesine Cundell Walker Published: 15 March 2024 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
Synopsis | Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test, despite encouragement from her partner Danni. A short version of the one-act drama of the same name we have already published. A longer (one-act) version of this story can be found here: 50/50 [One-act Play] |
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Accessory to a Murder by Richard Smithson Published: 26 February 2024 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male but Gallstone could be cast female. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A novel take on the police genre provides some good jokes. Very easily stageable - two actors and a desk with chairs. |
Synopsis | Police officers Gallstone and Stott are serving the end of their careers in a retirement community. Frustrated that nothing ever happens, Gallstone demands that Stott become a maverick - just like on telly. |
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BARF by Richard Moon Published: 26 February 2024 New BARF was one of the eight winners of the 2022 Ilkley Playhouse 8x8x8 Playwriting Festivaland was performed at the Ilkley Playhouse in April 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny sketch with a nicely grim twist. |
Synopsis | Pauline's dishwasher is broken and Joe is confident he is the man to fix it for her. But why is Pauline so interested in Joe's private life? |
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Blackbird by Jamesine Cundell Walker Published: 15 March 2024 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
Synopsis | Overbearing mother Rosie drops off her anxious daughter Florence at the start of her first term at Oxford. |
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Cards on the Table by Barry Lambert Published: 12 February 2024 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | It seems a cut-and dried case for Inspector Whalley and colleagues - they know the crime and who dunnit, but, of course, there's a twist for the sleuths to sort out. 'Cards on the Table' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2. |
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Careless Talk by Hugh Smith Published: 20 February 2024 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 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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The Donor by Jamesine Cundell Walker Published: 15 March 2024 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 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again). |
Synopsis | The Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request. |
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The Dream! by Jack Shaw Published: 20 March 2024 New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters plus two offstage voices, which might be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 121 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy. Act 1 follows the rehearsal process of a rural amdram society, Act 2 presents their take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
Synopsis | Cowmoor Comedy Crew, a rural amateur group with a history of failure, can only dream of winning the County Drama Cup. New director Mo offers to direct them in a sixty-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. They're not keen on the Bard, but Mo shows them that Shakespeare can be a lot of fun to act, as well as very funny to watch. |
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First Drop of Rain by James Brosnahan Published: 12 February 2024 New Screenplay version placed in the Semifinals (top 1%) of the Austin Film Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Cast of 4 women, 2 12-year-old girls (one with doubling) and 4 men. |
Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length historical drama. An entertaining exploration of the characters and the times. (First published 2021, revised edition published 2024.) |
Synopsis | When an aspiring author sets out to write her first novel, the gendered prejudices of 18th Century London come for her, leaving her to decide between marrying her suitor in surrender or being as brave as the female protagonist she has written. Based on the true story of Frances Burney. |
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Franny and Jonty’s Christmas Cook Off by Cheryl Barrett Published: 12 February 2024 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. (Set in a kitchen, but only indicated by a table and a couple of chairs.) |
Synopsis | A charming bon viveur and his once celebrity chef wife are no longer feted by TV companies. To restart her career, Franny has agreed to front a cooking programme for a new streaming channel. After so long away from the limelight, Franny resorts to 'dutch courage' to calm her nerves. |
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