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The Class by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with lots of action. |
Synopsis | This play finds us at the church hall joining Melanie's self defence for ladies class. New member Wendy is a little apprehensive at first, but soon joins in with the other ladies as relationships develop and tensions appear, with Brian at the centre of the conflicts. His intriguing male presence at a class for ladies is gradually revealed as the class proceeds. Then, in an amusing and surprising final twist we find that Brian has other interests. |
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Eleven Fifty-Six by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play (somewhere between drama and thriller) with a single sparse set. |
Synopsis | Nathan seems certain to remain in the hospital - found wandering naked and confused, he has no records, no identity, no money. Dr Caulfield thinks he's deluded, but there's something compelling about his claim to be a time traveller. Then there's his urgent desire to leave London... |
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The Gatekeeper's True Religion by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The parts are tremendous, with the stolid, doomed man at the centre, the Priest who cannot match deeds to words and the prostitute who understands more of Vasily's soul than the priest ever could. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Simple sets. Very serious subject, but peppered with a wonderful black humour. Contains swearing and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Vasily guards one of the gates into the sealed off Chernobyl Nuclear Power station. Pavel is a Priest sent to tend to the small flock who still live in the shadow of Chernobyl, while Petlova is a prostitute who ministers to Vasily's physical needs. A great commentary on religion, on attitudes to life, on the after-effects of disasters.... many, many things. |
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Last Woman Working by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act satirical comedy with a single (office) setting. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Robots, with government backing, have taken over almost every job previously done by humans. Masses are protesting. Desperate to save her job in an electronics factory, Barbara Wooley takes an aggressive stand at her local MP's surgery. |
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Shooting 'The War Game' by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Newscaster is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (bomb damaged house) setting. Originally released 2015, revised 2018. |
Synopsis | The play is set in 1964, at the height of the Cold War, during the filming of TV drama 'The War Game'. It begins with five actors involved in filming a dramatic rescue scene in a bombed building, and develops into a tense anti-war drama. |
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