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| The Babbling Brookes: Ed And Breakfast by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 25-minute comedy drama, part of the 'Babbling Brookes' trilogy. |
| Synopsis | Eddie and his Mum are at loggerheads again, and this time neither will apologise. The trouble is, Eddie isn’t even sure what it is he’s not apologising for. Meanwhile, Richie is getting worked up about his annual Yard Sale. |
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| The Babbling Brookes: Rags to Richie by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 30-minute comedy drama, part of the 'Babbling Brookes' trilogy. |
| Synopsis | Richie Brookes is a real liability - so much so that his wife won’t leave him alone without a responsible adult to supervise him. Today it’s their long-suffering daughter Kerry-Ann who’s drawn the short straw. |
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| The Back Alley Bakery by Kim Watson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 79 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy drama on a split (bakery/alley) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | Carver's Bakery does brisk business, but in the alley behind it, there are all kinds of encounters. From the couple who live in the alley, to the people who walk down it, lives collide and are changed forever. |
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| Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set. |
| Synopsis | Jessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts. |
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| The Barrier by Neville Judson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Stongly-written one-act drama set in the 1990s in a single guest-house setting. Contains adult themes, with meaty material to the actors as the two couples explore very different attitudes towards sexuality. |
| Synopsis | Clare and Graham arrive for a weekend in Tenby when they bump into old friends Marjorie and Richard. But Richard has refused to speak to Graham since a falling-out twenty-five years ago. The women are shocked to discover the reason. |
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| Behind Their Eyes by Taylor Seymour |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two act drama set in a school. |
| Synopsis | The hidden personal lives of a group of students at an American High School are brought into the open in this poignant examination of teenagers coming of age. |
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| Being Rose by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Requires 5 actresses of varying ages to play the title character. Every male character is intended to be played by the same actor, and every female character (aside from Rose) by the same actress. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful one act play with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Rose looks back on her life from old age but as we see her memories replayed before us, differences emerge between her stories and reality. As her confusion increases, a doctor's diagnosis explains all. In this emotional look at the devastating effects of dementia, Rose is able to recollect momentous emotional events in her life which are vividly and evocatively played out on stage. |
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| A Bench In The Park by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy thriller. |
| Synopsis | Joe's bed is a park bench, which - during the day, is used by a number of seemingly unconnected people. As conversations unfold, their relationships with each other and with Joe take a surprising twist. |
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| Bertha and Hal by Joyce Mulvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and a radio announcer who may be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] In readthrough for the original production (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) it ran to 40 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single domestic setting. Strong character roles for a cast of two. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Hal drops by his mother's home, but he hasn't brought his baby son to visit, as Bertha was hoping. Instead he has painful news to impart that will make her reconsider her attitude to her son and his wife. |
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| Best Served Cold by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Reginald is described as being in his twilight years and should give the impression of being - how shall we put this? - well padded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play for a gastronome. Set simply a table, chair and napkin. |
| Synopsis | In this bitter sweet monologue we have all the ingredients of an enthralling menu with a delicious twist for dessert. As food critic Reginald assesses another average meal, something has left a bad taste in his mouth - a taste that triggers memories of a sweet love, a bitter betrayal and a sour revenge. |
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