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Crackerjoke WriterAuthorPaul 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 OutAuthorTrevor 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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Daffodils Make Me SneezeAuthorJohn Chambers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act drama. Single set - a hospital room with a bed. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis Marilyn, hospitalized after being assaulted by her partner, meets Edna - a middle-aged woman - and her long-suffering husband Raymond. She soon recognises Edna as an interfering type who thinks she knows what's best for everyone. She may be powerless to heal her own relationship, but after a private conversation with Raymond, Marilyn thinks a few well-placed words might make Raymond's life a little easier.
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Dead LuckyAuthorNigel Holloway
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Zack, the TV compere, never appears on stage, so could be a series of recordings.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play, satirising game shows. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis Clive and Bonnie are competing in a global reality tv talent show, but how far are they prepared to go for the ultimate prize - being cryogenically frozen until the prize fund exceeds any fortune in the world?
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Dead RingerAuthorStuart 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 séance. 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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Deadly

Performance by BATS Youth won 'Best Dramatic Moment' award at Haynes Drama Festival, 2010

AuthorJonny Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for teenagers/young adults. Single simple set. Simple props. The script contains swearing (which may be toned-down to suit the requirements of a particular production).
Synopsis Seven friends attempt to make the most - or least - of their summer holidays. Each has a vice but it's a vice they're comfortable with, until Lewis makes a move on Priscilla, the new girl in town. Then it emerges that their sins could end up deadly...
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Death in CharacterAuthorStuart 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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DialogueAuthorStewart Boston
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are written as male, but could be played female without changing the nature of the piece.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Unnerving and disturbing, but gripping one-act play. Single simple set.
Synopsis Two immortal beings argue about the pros and cons of passing the time by experimenting with creation. Eventually the one who has worked hard on his people and his vision has to admit it's all gone horribly wrong. The other is happy to bring things to a close.
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Don't Mention the DreamAuthorDamian 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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EmergencyAuthorBob 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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