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| 22 Hardcastle Court | Author | Gary Diamond |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are four adults, with a range of ages, and two seventeen-year-olds (who like each other).
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Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act comedy play. Two sets (with the neat conceit that in moving out of her mother's house, Emily takes her sofa with her!), one of which requires a practical door. Contains some bad language (and lots of good language) and mild adult themes.
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When Emily finally manages to move out of her Mother's house, she thinks her worries are over, but thanks to the flat's former owner, she has to contend with mysterious calls from Mr X as well as her mother's interruptions and an amorous pair of students wanting help with their play...
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| A Case of Good Intentions | Author | Peter Stallard |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
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Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
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A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone.
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| A Controlling Interest | Author | D.S. Warner |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all young adults.
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Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act drama. Single interior set (could easily be done as a 'black box' presentation).
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Ryan brings his new girlfriend back to the house he shares with his university friends, James and Charlotte, setting off a chain of events with, ultimately, tragic consequences.
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| A Day in the Life | Author | Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages.
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Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun!
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A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch.
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| A Fairy Tale Adventure | Author | Sophia Holder |
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Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
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Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
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The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
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| A Forty-Minute Timon of Athens | Author | Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
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Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Lots of flexibility in numbers - lots of doubling is possible or, conversely, roles like the senators and lords can be shared out. Few specifically female characters, but many could be cast female.
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Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes or so.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
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Timon is berated by the sour philosopher Apemantus, but Timon ignores his advice, preferring to enjoy himself through banquets and acts of generosity. However, when Timon runs into debt his friends prove false and he leaves Athens in anger and disgust. In the wilderness his fortune changes. but not his view of his fellow man.
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| A Frame That Fits | Author | William Campbell |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Interesting crafting of character - especially on the part of Richard Gloster, the unorthodox detective, who, given his name, has a tendency to attempt iambic pentameter.
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Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act detective story - not so much a 'whodunnit?' as a 'how do we prove that he dunnit?' Multiple locations, but intended to be represented minimally in a single composite set. Contains mild swearing.
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A family has been found murdered - apparently by their daughter, who then took her own life. The police suspect a frame-up, since the family's nephew stands to profit from their deaths, but they need to call on the unorthodox services of Private Investigator Richard Gloster to prove it.
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| A Friend of Ronnie's | Author | David Barry |
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Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Edith and Arthur are relatively elderly, Susan a younger researcher.
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Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One act drama set in 1983 (twenty years after the main event). Single domestic setting. Contains mild swearing.
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It's been a tense twenty years for Edith and Arthur. Now that Susan has arrived and is uncovering his shady past, will life improve for the pair of them, or simply reveal more regrets?
The play fills some gaps in the true story of the robbery, and the substitute train driver who was never caught.
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| A Life Sentence Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two. | Author | Mark Seaman |
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Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
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Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions.
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A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days.
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| A Little War in Wales | Author | David Adland |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one sixteen-year-old and two twelve-year-old girls.
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Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act play - a light romantic drama, with strong period detail. Single set (with separate areas where the action moves between settings).
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Based on real events from the Second World War. German Prisoners of War are sent out to work on farms deep in rural Wales, where the locals have to cope with the POWs, billeted Allied servicemen and wartime shortages.
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