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Henry V Revisited by David Baldwin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length revised version of the Shakespearean play. |
Synopsis | Shakespeare's famous play about the battle of Agincourt is updated, and Chorus reveals and explains the historical facts. The essentials of the original play are covered and the 'St. Crispin's Day' speech is retained unaltered. |
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Here I Sit All Alone, I Think I'll Play My Xylophone by Martin Alcock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with a single (theatre dressing room) setting. |
Synopsis | Once famous comedy duo Wild and Wooley have been relegated to dead end provincial panto. They are excited to learn that their new agent has negotiated a possible television show for them when their erstwhile, crooked agent turns up - to rain on their parade with secrets from the past. They deal with his blackmail in a surprisingly shocking way, after which they are able to come to terms with the past and go forward to a brighter future. |
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Home, Sweet Home by Adam Croft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts in a single living-room setting. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
Synopsis | Richard and wife Claire act as Samaritans as they give homeless Boz a bed for the night in their garage. Their act of kindness rebounds as Boz gradually makes himself at home and Claire is left with a life changing dilemma. |
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How Did That Get In My Locker? by Andrew M. Frodahl |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act school play - chiefly American in theme and content, though could be adapted for other audiences. |
Synopsis | When prom queen Emily goes missing and her bra turns up in Dullon Bland’s locker, only teen PI Ithaca Shue can help him. |
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The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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I Have A Vision by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts, informed by the three years the author spent working on two reserves in Saskatchewan. |
Synopsis | Two years on a reservation in Canada, as the elections bring a new chief with a new vision, but Richard can't offer the people the same good times his predecessor Gerald did. He wants them to think long term and to make changes for their children's future. A moving play, throwing new light on an old struggle. |
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I Stand Alone by Kevin Broughton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts. Four locations, but designed for minimal staging. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | An allegorical play. In the far future, Britain has been ravaged by an external conflict and a civil war between the returning Celts, who restored the country, and the native Saxons who feel they have been pushed aside. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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In The White Time by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] Structurally in one act, but could be performed as a full evening's entertainment. |
Music | None. |
Style | A Victorian historical drama, based on a true murder case |
Synopsis | As a young teenager Mary Wheeler had witnessed her father being convicted and hanged for murder. The trauma resulted in her having intermittent blackouts which she termed her ‘White Time’. Mary invites her lover's mistress Phoebe around one afternoon, leading to her disappearance. Mary is trialled for murder, and only a mysterious letter may reveal the truth of the case. |
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An Incorrigible Irishman by James Skivington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length historical drama with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Sir Roger Casement’s flagging enthusiasm for the cause of Irish Home Rule is rekindled with encouragement from his friend Ada McNeill and the tragic events suffered by young serving girl Theresa and her family at the hands of the British. Casement's fervour grows, despite knowing too well that he will be walking into a den of lions. After going to America in order to raise support from the Irish population, the die is cast for the events that will lead him to disgrace, humiliation, a heart-wrenching parting from Ada and the hangman’s noose. |
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