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My Sister, The Thief by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two characters are written as female but can be played as male - this would of course require a change in title, which the author is happy for you to do. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play ideal for teenage performers, with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Ally has always looked up to her big sister, Tee, the hockey star, the brightest pupil, so generous with gifts. But now she’s discovered that Tee has been stealing those presents, not buying them. |
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Nothing Old Nothing New by Anne Graham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A farce with a single-setting - set over two acts, though could be performed in one. Some strong language |
Synopsis | Valerie is dead but unable to leave her house, now occupied by her son and his wife Zoe - the cause of her fury and her enforced sit-in. Her grandson arrives to find his mother making plans for his sister’s wedding. When the bride and groom and his father arrive for the weekend along with the groom’s psychic mother, scandalous revelations lead to the wedding plans being blown apart and a ruined weekend, although chaotic events lead to Valerie’s happy release. |
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O, What A Lovers' War! by Karen Ince |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional numbers of non-speaking women and soldiers. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, evoking times of the First World War, in various settings. |
Synopsis | A story of love during the Great War, told through a series of vignettes, looking at the Home Front through the lives of two families from different social classes - for whom the conflict has parallel effects. |
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Odd Socks by Emily Hastings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single living-room setting. Some adult content. |
Synopsis | Daisy visits Chloe to share family memories. Their perspectives of the same events seem very different. |
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Of Myths And Mortals by Matt Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Alex, Toni, Ash, Pip, Curator 1, Curator 2, Guard and Florist can be played by male or female actors, with pronouns changed accordingly. Guard and Florist can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama for schools with a flexible museum setting. |
Synopsis | A rather badly behaved family's visit to the museum is marked with a re-telling of Greek Myths which strangely resonate with modern behaviours. |
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Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Emma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour. |
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Oncology by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy drama fuelled by family (and medical) tensions. |
Synopsis | Set in a clinic where Edna and her daughter wait for the results of a recent test, surrounded by a madcap collection of patients and relatives who have an underlying serious story to tell. |
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One Mistake by Stephen Scheurer-Smith Winner of Cambridge Drama Festival 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play Psychic Babble. |
Synopsis | An alcoholic has-been pop star is on the road with her daughter reluctantly in tow. They're the last ones in the hotel bar, but the bartender, a former City high-flyer, has a surprising past of his own. |
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Our Julie's Big Day by Susie Casson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with a single (bedroom) setting. |
Synopsis | It is the morning of Julie's wedding day. Her older female relatives fuss around her as they help her get ready for the big event when Julie drops the bombshell that she is having serious second thoughts. In describing the trials and tribulations of their own marriages Mum, Aunts and Granny strangely make up her mind for her. |
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Out With The Old by Wendy Ash |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Tannoy is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play with simple settings. |
Synopsis | Two very different couples are next to each other at a car boot sale. Frank and Trace have more kids than they can handle, Julia and Mark are selling the baby things they'll never need and two further characters bring other upheavals into the mix. Quite a roller-coaster of emotions, resulting in surprising friendships and varied support between them all during the day. |
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