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The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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Sharing by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single interior set. Furniture includes a collapsing chair (great fun for the set designer!) |
Synopsis | Chris the suave estate agent thinks he's on to a good thing when wet and weedy Jake brings the gorgeous Holly in to buy a house. They're clearly not suited, and he makes his move to split them up. Jake is paired off with Chris's soon-to-be ex-wife and leaves, but then Holly has some surprising revelations for Chris. |
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Shift Change by Terry McFadden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in which the three characters engage in witty and insightful conversation to tell us their stories with comedy and pathos. Single (American) bar setting. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | What do you get when you mix one-part disenchanted tomboy waitress who just dumped her loser boyfriend, one-part overly pontificating know-it-all seasoned bartender, and one-part recently jilted blue-collar droop who just isn't doing well with the ladies? You get the situation at shift-change at Shannahann's Pub. A light-hearted take on bar culture and protocol, where Gregg, fresh from a breakup, receives hilarious coaching on the art of picking up women from the garrulous barkeep, Pete. While he's more bemused than bolstered, his intended departure is halted when he encounters the pub's beautiful, hard-nosed waitress Vicki, who, after some coy, heated banter, provides him with a simpler solution to his romantic problem. |
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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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The Shop by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, taking place within a shop. |
Synopsis | It's just another ordinary day in the Charity Shop for Elsie and Margaret, with new customers and old friends. But they discover that one visit in particular was very special and will never be forgotten. |
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The Signalman by Matthew Harper Production by Progressive Players won the Northern Semi-Final of the All England Theatre Festival - 2021 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, which could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A Victorian gothic drama in one act with a single (signal box) setting. |
Synopsis | The thrilling Charles Dickens story is brought to life in this stage adaptation, as tension inexorably builds towards the signalman's fate. |
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Silver Linings by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | A young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself. |
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A Single Moment by Tony Domaille Runner up UK Community Drama Festivals Federation Geoffrey Whitworth competition for Best Original Script, 2015 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (Betting Shop) setting. Part I of the author's 'Changes' trilogy. |
Synopsis | Danny's gambling has finally brought him to rock bottom. He has lost everything and now finds himself in the bookmaker’s shop learning lessons from a bag lady and a bookmaker. Whilst salvation is offered from surprising sources, it is a single moment that saves him when his most unlikely bet is won because on 5th June 2009 snow fell across parts of the UK. |
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The Sinister Mrs Eaves by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set (Sherlock Holmes' study). |
Synopsis | Holmes and Watson tackle the bizarre case of the Sinister Mrs Eaves and twenty-one-and-a-half Harper Street without leaving their comfortable rooms at 221b Baker Street. A fine Holmes mystery with more than a touch of humour. |
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Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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