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Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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Stoneybroke Hall by Georgina Cawood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Written for children to perform, but could be played by a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodrama. Multiple sets, but sets can be stylised rather than realistic. |
Synopsis | Stoneybroke Hall used to be an excellent school, but recently it has started to go down hill. Staff have been leaving and, mysteriously, the rival school at Graspyng Grange seems to have benefit. The mystery is unfolded by a cast of teachers, pupils and historical figures accidentally caught in a time machine |
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Strange New Worlds by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props, Science Fiction (TV) parody [Okay, early Star Trek!] |
Synopsis | Three members of the Galaxy Patrol, Security Branch, are on the surface of an alien planet. Bearing in mind they're all wearing red jerseys, how many will get off the planet alive? |
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Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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Waiting for Twist Stiffly by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play which takes place on the set of a 1950s science fiction serial, but is really about actors and their relationship to their characters. |
Synopsis | Filming of the 1950s adventure serial 'Twist Stiffly - Space adventurer' is being held up because the leading man is nowhere to be found. While the remaining cast members lounge around waiting for him to turn up, they discuss their roles in the drama and their dissatisfactions with the main man. Then they come up with a great way to fill their time until he arrives... |
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Watch This Space [Comedy Play] by Karrena Dewhurst |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the characters is the voice of the computer - conceivably recorded, but probably better live. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, set in space. (There is also a follow-up, 'Watch This Space Too', by Leo Finn, using the same characters.) |
Synopsis | Rodney's just the cleaner on the spaceship, and he's the butt of everyone's jokes, even the shipboard computer. But when an Alien species threatens the ship, only Rodney's brain has the... spare capacity for telepathic communication. It's up to him to save the ship! |
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Watch This Space [Pantomime] by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four of the characters are 'voice-overs' and could easily be doubled by other members of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act space panto with a few Star Wars and Star Trek parodies thrown in for good measure! |
Synopsis | The distant planet of Nonamia is held in the iron grip of the wicked Queen Evilena. This vane and preening monarch has now taken a dislike to her stepdaughter the beautiful princess Tia Maria and instructs her Henchman, the sinister Raft Raider to dispose of the child! Who can save her? Perhaps the crew of the Starship USS Compromise and an assortment of robots can help? |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Watch This Space Too by Leo Finn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. FRED is a computer (and therefore presumably, present in voice only.) |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, set on the bridge of a spaceship. Uses (with permission) the characters from Karrena Dewhurst's 'Watch This Space' |
Synopsis | The Captain, the Doctor, Number Two and FRED the computer helpt to bring Rodney the Cleaner 's Art of Air Guitar to an alien race. |
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When Rob Met Artie by Richard Crawley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An enjoyable comedy which offers good roles to a well-balanced cast. |
Synopsis | April has lived with her AI partner Rob for five years, and the time has come to replace him with a newer model, Artie. But Artie's ability to replicate male behaviour causes more problems than expected, while Rob finds happiness in his new home with April’s employee Lisa. |
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