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Princess Bigfoot by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act family play, based on real characters circa 750 AD (though incorporating folk tales). |
Synopsis | In 8th Century France an identity theft scheme to usurp the Princess Bertha from her position as the wife of King Pepin is thwarted by that famous pair of investigators: Messrs Hercule and Poirot - as well as by the Princess’s shoe size. |
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The Princess of Bleecker Street by Don Lowry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play for a high school cast. Single New York apartment setting. |
Synopsis | Van is the daughter of a very rich man, but she's determined to spend the summer like an ordinary person, so she's moved into a regular little apartment, and has only $30,000 dollars to last three months. Can she conceal her true identity? Or will her mother track her down? |
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Problem In Judaea by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play. Structurally in two acts, but of one act length. Three sets, but designed for minimal staging. |
Synopsis | A minimalist retelling of the events surrounding the Crucifixion, told from the point of view of Pilate, the Sanhedrin and Herod. |
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Prof's Big Idea by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama for kids. |
Synopsis | 'The Prof' - a member of a gang of kids - designs a time machine. The gang is almost ready to test it for an inventors competition, when the rival gang - 'The Skrimshaw Krew' - steals Prof's big idea... |
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The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy play |
Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, adapted by Dave Jeanes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 20. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The cast is mainly adults, but includes five children. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play adapted from Robert Tressell's classic English Socialist novel of the same name. |
Synopsis | A group of painters redecorate a house, all the while discussing life and how to make a living whilst being trodden on by their superiors. Frank Owen, one of their number, is a firm socialist who believes his ideals can end the poverty from which they all suffer. Railed against by his peers, can he sway them to his way of thinking, or will he turn to theirs? And, ultimately, will it make a difference either way? |
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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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Reading by Firelight by Margaret Histed |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Range of (playing) ages from 'the twins' aged eight to their seventy-year-old grandfather. (The twins need not be identical, nor of the same gender.) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A touching short play (three 'acts', but a total time of only 15 minutes). Single domestic set - mainly indicated by a few essential props. Contains one mild swear-word (which can be dropped at the direcor's discretion). |
Synopsis | Eddie's family surprise him with a party on his seventieth birthday, but there's a row and his granddaughter leaves suddenly. She returns later to open her heart to the old man and gain some understanding. |
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Reality? by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one teenager. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Startling fifteen minute play. Single set (just a couch), minimal props. |
Synopsis | What's going on? They appear to be a family, but they don't agree about who's who - or, indeed anything else! Parallel universes are colliding in one house, causing confusion about identity, location and time. (Okay, strictly, if they are parallel it should not be possible for them to collide, but the grammatical part of 'Multiverse' theory is not yet as advanced as the mathematics, so you'll just have to put up with an imprecise description!) |
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Reasonable Doubt by A.D. Peters |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play in two short acts - courtroom drama and crime - the way the jury sees is, and the way it happened. |
Synopsis | A tense courtroom drama with the prosecutor battling a slick defence lawyer at the murder trial of social misfit Josephine Mason. The second act takes the form of a flashback portraying the murder of which she is accused. We are left with the dilemma of knowing jury's decision before we learn the identity of the murderer. We are then able to evaluate the justice of the verdict, wherein lies the final twist. |
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