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After Twenty Years by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 6 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA sketch on a blank stage, based on an O. Henry short story,
SynopsisBob, a wanted criminal, visits New York to see a friend for the first time in twenty years. Ironically, his friend has become a cop.
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Alice And The Cold Case by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 68 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA two act detective drama (that could be played out in one).
SynopsisA detective on administrative leave and a reporter with everything to prove have to team up to solve a cold case that no one really cares about. The only question is whether it will make their careers, or end them.
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Arrival by Stephen Scheurer-Smith
Best Stage Presentation Cambridge Drama Festival 2011 Production by Waterbeach Community Players
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama fuelled by family tensions.
SynopsisKevin and Anne return from an evening function to find Anne's brother asleep in the back garden. When a young policewoman arrives on the scene her subsequent questioning exposes dark secrets in their seemingly settled lives.
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Becoming the Drop by Henry P. Gravelle
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short play with a simple set. US English. Adult themes.
SynopsisIn a whistle-stop town in 1878, the hangman does his job, with the sheriff and the judge as witnesses, but takes his bragging too far and places himself in a questionable position.
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Bigger Fish by Clive David Lloyd Williams
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 62 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleCrime drama from a slice of 1960s British history. Multiple sets, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama. (Could be paired with a shorter play for an evening of one-act drama, or stand on its own.)
SynopsisPoliceman 'Nipper' Read sees The Great Train Robbery as a chance, not just to make his mark in the police force, but to get the chance to go after the bigger fish - starting with the Kray twins. It’ll take time, but he's a determined man.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Jpeg image by Jo Goodberry designed to form the basis for a poster for 'Bigger Fish' by Clive David Lloyd Williams
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Burden of Proof by Ian Dixon Potter
New
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 48 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA tough one-act play which deals with issues of racism, homophobia and police corruption. Multiple settings, but can be achieved using furniture and lighting.
SynopsisDetective Sergeant Dunderdale, a racist, corrupt police officer, is determined to convict Joseph Wade for a brutal double murder, but doesn't have any real evidence. He sees no problem in bending the rules in order to secure the conviction.
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Can There Be Justice For TJ? by Evonne Fields-Gould
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast with mixed ages and some specific ethnicities.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort American drama. Single set (a kitchen, but with parts of the stage used for action that takes place elsewhere).
SynopsisVivian, a distraught mother, recalls the events that led up to the death of her son, killed by a police officer, and the impact it has had on herself and the remaining family members. She has turned to heavy drinking, and wonders whether she can still be a good mother to Little Man.
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Cards on the Table by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate.
Run TimeAround 37 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisIt seems a cut-and dried case for Inspector Whalley and colleagues - they know the crime and who dunnit, but, of course, there's a twist for the sleuths to sort out.
'Cards on the Table' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2.
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Change Of Heart by Tony Frier
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 47 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller.
SynopsisA tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her?
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Changes Trilogy by Tony Domaille
Award winning. 'A Single Moment' - Runner up best original play, Avon One Act Play Festival 2015. 'Me & You.' Winner of the Avon Short Play Festival Competition 2020, as well as awards for best director, best actor, best actress and supporting actor
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 89 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA Collection of Three One Act Drama Plays.
SynopsisThe plays are
A Single Moment, Me And You, and Headlines.
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