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| Rabbits Are No Substitute For Men by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for three thirty-something single women with one living room setting. There are adult themes but these are less raunchy than the title might suggest! |
| Synopsis | Housemates Jennifer, Jane and Gaby all have their own way of dealing with the death of Jane's pet rabbit, the vagaries of Jennifer's on- off relationship with Danny and Gaby's pregnancy. |
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| Race To The Wheelchair by David John Manning |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Catchpole and Rees have a long-standing friendship, despite their very different characters, so surely nothing could come between them? When Catchpole has a lottery win he promises to take Rees on a fine holiday, but then he meets Beryl... |
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| Ragtime Mystery by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the principal characters it would be possible to have a number of non-speaking 'extras'. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three Scott Joplin rags suggested as musical accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, simple detective story. Three scenes, but integrated by music whilst the set is dressed for the next scene. |
| Synopsis | Gossip columnist Veronica Rivers gets a mysterious invitation to a party, where she recognises an infamous jewel thief - just before a diamond necklace goes missing. It's down to Charlie 'Ragtime' Jones the piano-playing detective to solve the mystery. |
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| Rambles On Radio by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy |
| Synopsis | Christopher is delighted to be performing his play on the radio with his daughter in a starring role, but others are less content with the casting. Worse still, there’s more drama behind the microphone than is going out over the air. |
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| Raw Materials by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a cast of two. Simple set - essentially a desk and a pile of rags! |
| Synopsis | John Brown speaks of his troubles trying to get his memoirs of Robert Blincoe, a boy who worked in the cotton mills, published. Robert tells his own story and explains what happened to John Brown himself after three years of failure.
A window onto the industrial revolution. |
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The Red Balloon by Damian Trasler
Best Play, GDA Festival 2006
'A breath of fresh air' (competition judge giving 5 awards, Radnor 2010), Performance by Royal Manor Theatre won Best Youth Play at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (bare stage, with a few items of furniture brought on during the piece). Few props. Explores the nature of live theatre! |
| Synopsis | A couple interrupt the premier of a piece of Modern Theatre and claim it's all rubbish. The performer challenges them to produce something better, and the three begin to work on the piece together. What will they come up with by the end of the evening? |
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| Red Card by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single domestic set (which could be done with furniture only). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bex, Shaz and Trish, three unattached girls looking for Mr Right, decide to hole themselves up in their appartment in an attempt to escape the ordeal of 'The Festival of Guilt' that is Valentine's Day. But the arrival of an anonymous card leads not to love, but to a war of words and confessions bound to test their friendship... |
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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers
Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
| Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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Regret Rien by Jackie Carreira
Finalist in the Kenneth Branagh New Drama Award 2012, first performed at the Windsor Fringe Festival as part of that award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama in two minimal scenes, an outdoor café and the top of the Eiffel Tower. |
| Synopsis | Sons Will and Bob accompany their widowed mother Iris to Paris to fulfil their late father's last wishes. Each of them experience much more than expected as old enmities disappear. |
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| The Rehearsal by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set, as you might guess, on a stage. A comedy of character and situation. |
| Synopsis | Daniel is rehearsing a crucial scene from his new play, but Millie and Mike, the two leads, are not being very co-operative. They don't like his last minute changes to the text, and they keep wondering where the rest of the cast is. |
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