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A Case of Good Intentions	Author	Peter Stallard
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
	Synopsis	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 Dress for the Wedding	Author	Yair Packer
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters appear on stage, but the voices of five others are heard, two on the telephone. The offstage voices could be live or recorded.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Contemporary character comedy. Essentially a short two-handed play (but see the character remarks). A single-set (hotel room interior), simple props.
	Synopsis	When their flight to Washington is delayed, Albert and Sabrina check into a hotel, only to find that they have picked up the wrong luggage from the airport. Instead of her dress for her nephew's wedding, Sabrina's suitcase contains something totally unexpected - and the name on the label spells trouble.
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A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical	Author	Sue Gordon
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female!
	Run time	Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
	Style	One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences)
	Synopsis	Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it!
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	Plus	The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show

A Servant Plays for High Stakes	Author	Vithal Rajan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
	Synopsis	Game Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India.
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award.	Author	Paul Gisby
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties).
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.)
	Synopsis	Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny.
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A Time for Farewells Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2003	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Serious, touching play. One act, one simple set. [Includes mild swearing]
	Synopsis	As they dress for a social event that will mark the end of their married life together, Sarah and Alex review their relationship to find out what brought them to this point.
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A Whole New World	Author	Rebecca Grabill
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words!
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future).
	Synopsis	A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it’s lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end.
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Aim	Author	Terry Adlam
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing.
	Synopsis	Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong.
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Alekhine’s Greatest Defeat	Author	Vithal Rajan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris.
	Run time	Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
	Synopsis	Game One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student.
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Alessandro	Author	Nicholas Conti
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Narrator is intended to double as The Count.
	Run time	Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A one-act romp set in 1682. Written in a style somewhere between Melodrama and Restoration Comedy! (American English.)
	Synopsis	The tale of Alessandro Stradella, musical lover. (That's musical lover as in 'musician and lothario', not as in 'fan of Rogers and Hammerstein'.) His affair with his pupil, Contessa Maria Cortese, sparks the wrath of her husband - just one of the enraged cuckolds Alessandro has left in his wake.
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Apple Strudel, Chess and Ethics	Author	Vithal Rajan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
	Synopsis	Game Five in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Albert Einstein challenges J. Robert Oppenheimer to a chess match, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar looking on, as they discuss physics and ethics in the lead-up to the Manhattan Project.
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Artists Anonymous	Author	John Passadino
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Ralph's mother is an offstage voice and could, conceivably, be a recording. The pizza deliverer is silent and compatible with whatever gender range is open to the producer!
	Run time	Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play, single set. A sharp script with some interesting characters and real emotion in it.
	Synopsis	Three long-serving writers meet up for their weekly writing meeting. Will this be the one where they finally crack the winning formula, or just the one where Ralph, living in his parent's basement again after his latest marriage break up, cracks? That was a lousy sentence, but this time they think they've come up with a winner... they'll fake the death of one of the writing team and use the publicity to sell a story at last! But who will get the chop for the sake of success?
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Being Nice	Author	Mark Niel
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act, single set comedy play. (Contains swearing.)
	Synopsis	Geoff, a divorcee pays his mortgage by renting out rooms to Emily and Alison, two girls in their twenties. Emily has a crush on Geoff and is mortified when Alison, a much more outgoing and earthy type, weighs in with advice and practical help. The three ponder the different dynamic and set out the boundaries of the potential relationship, but does Alison have a secret she’s not sharing with Emily?
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Bill and Ben the Twilight Men	Author	Frank Gibbons
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters with playing ages from thirties to sixties.
	Run time	Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One act comedy, single set (lounge bar of a village pub). Contains mild swearing and Lancashire accents.
	Synopsis	Bill is a curmudgeonly barman who nurses a desperate love for the landlady, Rose, but she's being courted by out-of-towner Ben, a suave, rich man. But a new guest at the pub, a spate of burglaries and the local copper's inventions combine to turn Bill's fortunes around.
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Bottle	Author	John Chambers
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and one teenager.
	Run time	Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play, two (simple) hospital sets (one with a practical cubicle door). Contains strong adult themes and extremely offensive language from the rebellious teenager.
	Synopsis	Tom and his stepfather Clive are in the intensive care ward, waiting for news of Tom's mother, who has been viciously beaten. Clive calls Tom's real father Paul, who comes to join them. The three argue about blame, love and life, but can the two men handle the truth about who really beat Tom's mum?
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Brush Yourself Off and Move On	Author	Megan Boduch
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (the Director) has two short lines, which could be done from offstage.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play - a character study - set outside a Broadway audition (though it could be a theatrical audition anywhere). No specific set requirements, simple props.
	Synopsis	A Broadway hopeful is waiting nervously outside her latest audition. A rival gains her trust but proceeds to destroy her confidence, apparently for no better reason than her own amusement. Just as our girl is about to give it all up, however, a man arrives and is considerate and kind. He restores her confidence and points out her advantages over the more poisonous girl. Together they point out the girl’s deficiencies to her and win the moral victory over her.
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Bucolic	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play, single domestic set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes.)
	Synopsis	Adam manages to come home earlier than usual, hoping to enjoy his restful country home, but there's an odd string of visitors, and his errant son returns unexpectedly from college. The new, attractive female, curate comes to call, and his wife reveals a most unexpected secret.
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Captive Audience	Author	Jenny Gilbert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play with a serious - even sinister - twist. Single simple set (give or take the table anchored to the floor). Includes mild swearing.
	Synopsis	Tom's on a short residential course as part of his Open University studies, and he's in a spot of bother, having been handcuffed to a table by a passing drunk. Other people on other courses gather around to help Tom in his hour of need, until Dave arrives to spill Tom's dark secret.
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Carrie's Lions	Author	Amy Sutton
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture.
	Synopsis	Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father.
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Chess as Felony	Author	Vithal Rajan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
	Synopsis	Game Ten in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Convicts Claude Bloodgood and Ram Varadachary take a train with their guard to a chess tournament, but on the train they play a game for high stakes.
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Crackerjoke Writer	Author	Paul Richards
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play with plenty of acting challenges. A black comedy about comedians who are just not funny. Single set (with no specific set requirements) and simple props. Contains swearing.
	Synopsis	There is a comedy pit, where unfunny comedians are held captive. That's where Ade finds himself, despite thinking that he's the next big thing in comedy. He has one chance to break out with a new act and it depends on deadbeat failure, Bunny.
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Cut it Out	Author	Trevor Suthers
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. It is intended that one of the three actors plays multiple roles. The play could be performed by one adult and two teenagers, or by three teenagers.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act drama, dealing with self-harm. Minimal set requirments. Contains swearing.
	Synopsis	Claire has been a self-harmer since the death of her twin sister. Why does she feel guilty, and why does her mother feel guilty too? Why can't they connect over this common bond? A gritty, emotional character piece.
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Dead Ringer	Author	Stuart Ardern
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults
	Run time	Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Not so much a whodunnit as who is doing what to whom? One-act play, single simple interior set.
	Synopsis	Margo drags her friend Fran to a seance. The sceptical Fran doesn't expect to be able to contact Margo's dead husband but then strange things begin to happen...
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Death in Character	Author	Stuart Ardern
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play.
	Synopsis	The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim.
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Don't Mention the Dream	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play. Single set, modern realism, character, explores approaches to staging Shakespeare. Contains mild swearing.
	Synopsis	It's the annual meeting of the Drama Society, but they're a bit thin on the ground this year. Will Russell get his way and produce a period 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' or will Lucy put a spanner in the works?
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Emergency	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short one-act play. Single, simple set (a table), suitable for a bare stage presentation or could be played front of curtain whilst the stage was being prepared for another piece.
	Synopsis	A crisis has occurred in an expatriate Social Society that is having to move to smaller premises. Only one of four standard activities can continue and the spokespeople for each of the four are locked in acrimonious debate.
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Emporium 3	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short one-act comedy play. Single (store) set. Part of a series set in the same bizarre venue. (A couple of remarks refer back to previous events, but can easily be changed to allow this to run as a stand-alone play.)
	Synopsis	Candles and romance are waxing strong in Mme Dressoir's strange little shop, but customer dissatisfaction looms large, hindering growth and leading to broken promises and broken hearts.
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Emporium 4	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short one-act comedy play. Single (store) set. Part of a series set in the same bizarre venue (but functions as a stand-alone play.)
	Synopsis	A tangled love story in a very odd retail outlet. Shop assistant Michelle tries to continue her romance with the local policeman, whilst Ms Dressoir, the shop manager tries to prevent it and also to getting free publicity from the local paper.
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Emporium 5	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. There is a non-speaking 'crowd' of indeterminate number who enter and exit near the end of the piece.
	Run time	Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play. Single (store) set. Part of a series set in the same bizarre venue (but functions as a stand-alone play.)
	Synopsis	The worms in the shop finally turn, with Cynthia thrown out and Michelle getting hitched to her sweetheart, Rex. Madam Dressoir, the dreaded emporium manager, finally gets what's coming to her...
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Erica and Me	Author	Alan Robinson
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Only four of the characters are called Erica.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Hilarious one-act farce. Single set (ideally with two practical doors, but could be staged without). Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
	Synopsis	To impress his boss, who likes employees to be family men, the single, nerdy Simon hires an escort to pretend to be his girlfriend. Things spiral out of control when three women turn up, all (possibly) the Erica he's expecting...
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Fight for the Future	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Pruitt is written female, gender reassignment should be possible in her case.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short science-fiction play about time travel. Bare stage and just one prop - a piece of paper. That's all. Thousands of years of technological innovation leading to just one piece of paper. (Give or take the time capsule.)
	Synopsis	The first ever time traveller journeys to the future and discovers a world very different to the one he imagined...
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First Time Around	Author	Colin Calvert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Mainly adult characters, but bridesmaids are children. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is the option of adding non-speaking wedding guests.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play, with a single (wedding reception) set.
	Synopsis	Two families collide at a wedding. One has taken pains to ensure the speeches are suitable (and short enough!) for the eminent guests they have invited, by bringing along some chloroform. But not everyone at the event is what they seem, with the Bride's family are playing at being poor country bumpkins to avoid paying for the event.
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Game - Love	Author	Dominique Vaughan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play with a simple single set and simple props.
	Synopsis	Three couples meet one another at a speed-dating evening while the company moderator looks on. Two find they have at least enough in common to meet again, but the third pair find they have more in common than they want to share.
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God's Minstrel	Author	Joseph P. Ritz
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional.
	Run time	Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set.
	Synopsis	Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling.
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Going Underground Awarded the George Taylor Memorial Award as winner of the 2005 One Act Playwriting Competition of the National Drama Festivals Association	Author	Christopher Morgan
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play, single set - the interior of an underground train. Simple props.
	Synopsis	Seven travellers on the underground with a series of overlapping stories.
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Grace - A Monologue	Author	Frank Flynn
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act monologue. Single domestic set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English.
	Synopsis	Grace is sorting through the detritus of her life, and holds a rambling conversation with the audience about the people and places she has known. We finally come round with her to the realisation that her husband has died and she is packing up the house ready to sell.
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Grave Matters	Author	Peter Stallard
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Grave Warden is written male, but could easily be played female. The two female parts could, conceivably, be doubled, but the effect of Mrs. Roberts' final entrance would probably be better with more time for make-up!
	Run time	Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A ghost story told as a humorous one-act play. Single graveyard set, simple props.
	Synopsis	A magistrate and a Police Sergeant stole a valuable chalice and hid the theft under the cover of arson committed by a local troublemaker. Now their souls are bound to the churchyard until they can restore the chalice.
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Grecian Cat	Author	Erica Glenn
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A snappy short play about four twenty-somethings. One set (the kitchens of two adjoining apartments).
	Synopsis	Amber's Grecian cat figurine guards the front of her apartment and she believes it guards her fortune too, so when her new neighbour crushes it with his car, she wants revenge. The two adversaries and their roommates learn a lot about each other and themselves.
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Growing Up With Martin	Author	Paul Richards
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play (three sets)
	Synopsis	Martin is twenty four, living in a rented flat with his girlfriend, and working at the bottom of the corporate ladder in an accounting firm run by his Mum and Dad. He's frustrated by his lowly position, but equally annoyed by the idea that he should have to exert himself to get on in life. In the course of one day we see him downtrodden, turn a corner and find a new goal, just to have one of the dearest things snatched from him.
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Guidance	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A neat one-act play in the best tradition of the British sexy farce. Three doors, two sofas, that sort of thing. Contains adult themes (such as marriage and disagreement!)
	Synopsis	A married couple involved in an almighty row prove to be Marriage Guidance Counsellors. Their next clients are due but are they in any condition to help?
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Holiday	Author	Colin Calvert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act farcical comedy. Single set with practical door. Simple props.
	Synopsis	Donna is trying to hold the fort at the travel agency where she works, but her co-worker Linzi has run off to be a mud wrestler in Morocco and there's an inspector coming from Head Office. New recruit Sandra finds herself thrown in the deep end and experiencing the weird and wonderful folk who come looking for a holiday. Have the pair been nice enough to their customers to pass the inspection?
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Hope - A Monologue	Author	Frank Flynn
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English.
	Synopsis	Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece.
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In The Rough	Author	Richard James
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play. Two simple sets, simple props.
	Synopsis	In Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, the women were trying to end the Peloponnesian War. In this case, it's their husbands' addiction to golf that's the problem, but the method employed is the same (give or take the barricading of public buildings)!
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Kecks	Author	John Chambers
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are a mother and her (young adult) daughter.
	Run time	Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Contains adult themes and mild swearing.
	Synopsis	Karen and her mother Petula are in an exclusive lingerie shop, preparing for Karen's wedding night. Petula is prompted to reveal more than Karen wants to hear about her own sex life, but then when she tries on a basque, Karen reveals more than she wanted to about her own relationship.
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Keeping Mum	Author	Barry Blaize
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act comedy play, single domestic set. Includes mild swearing.
	Synopsis	Hetty nursed her Mum through a long illness, and now the old lady has died Hetty's sisters, Freda and Marion are there. Marion has come over from Spain for the funeral, but her companion, Carlos, arouses suspicions, as do rumours about Hetty's nursing.
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Last Respects	Author	Colin Calvert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A one-act play in funereal black - so obviously a comedy! Single set (a funeral parlour), replete with coffin.
	Synopsis	Henry Throgmorton (deceased) has decreed that a wake should be held in his honour at the funeral parlour. The guests, previously unknown to each other, are his wife and his two mistresses...
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Latin Fever	Author	Terence Dale
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play, single domestic set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing.)
	Synopsis	Surly and aggressive Bernard has to be levered out of his domestic rut by the persistence of his long-suffering but ever loving wife, who wields a crowbar in the unlikely shape of Stephen...
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Lazy Daze	Author	John Chambers
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One (female) character plays herself and a series of other people.
	Run time	Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Monody - one-act play for a cast of one. Single (store-room) set. Contains swearing.
	Synopsis	Daisy, with her limp and her lazy eye, has suffered scorn in her life, but Ian showed her a new interest - philosophy, reading, questioning. Daisy tells us about the night she and Ian were both invited to a colleague's leaving do.
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Let Her Rip	Author	Donna Brightwell
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In addition to the eight characters there are three off-stage voices.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short one-act comedy play set in the southern USA. Intended to be played with minimal sets.
	Synopsis	Sixty-somethings behaving badly, when four ladies decide to have the wild time they've missed in the rest of their lives.
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Little Acorns	Author	Jenny Gilbert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults with a mix of ages. The ages are suggested in the production notes, but there is a great deal of flexibility.
	Run time	Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	One-act play, single set.
	Synopsis	Gentle comedy, set in a school staff room, where the staff try to work out their gripes, with a particular concern about one member of the school.
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Loitering Within Tent	Author	tlc Creative
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short one-act comedy play, single set (a Bedouin tent), simple props.
	Synopsis	A Tourist party of ladies from the Women's Institute are treated to the 'Bedouin Desert experience', unaware that there is more to it than meets the eye...
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