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| The Gloves Are Off by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | What looks like marital bliss to the outside world is a facade to a hidden world of domestic violence, one that Jack and Natalie live with every day. |
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| Gold Cup Week by Peter Green |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play. |
| Synopsis | Suzanne and her three friends agree to provide lodgings in their houses for jockeys attending the Cheltenham race meeting. Their guests have a significant influence on the families' lives, particularly on Suzanne - who experiences a poignant life changing effect. |
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| Good Advice by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (coffee shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | Encouraged by her worldly friend Alice, ageing spinster Norma starts to think about her love life, or the lack of it, when former sweetheart Bill comes into the café. |
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| Good Enough by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hard-hitting one act drama |
| Synopsis | Single mother Janine struggles desperately with severe lack of confidence brought about by the derogatory voices of her parents, ex-husband and son which she relives in her head. These voices are played out on stage. |
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| Good For Something by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both in their seventies |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, set in a center for the retired. |
| Synopsis | Lizzie and Max meet regularly for a game of checkers during which they come closer together and are able to confide in and advise each other. |
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| Greeting Cards by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with a single setting and some adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Greeting card artist Robbie has suffered a stroke and his room mate Max is struggling to care for him and encourage him to get back to work. Two women, Mandy and Max’s sister Gertie are the catalyst for life saving changes for both Robbie and Max. |
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Guernica Goodbye by William Campbell
A production by Progress Theatre won three awards at the Henley-on-Thames Drama Festival, including best production. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, with an imaginative living room set. |
| Synopsis | A powerful drama - in which Spanish refugees from the Guernica bombings, having settled in Chartres, find themselves once again embroiled in further conflict against Fascists. War torn France has been liberated, and recriminations and revenge are already setting in. |
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| Happy Families by David Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with elements of farce as well as family drama. |
| Synopsis | Two families are brought together by the engagement of their children. The future in-laws meet for the first time, and could not be more different - but two of them hold a secret past. |
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| Heedless Spirits by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are older teenagers or young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers. Single, simple set, few props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Six young people in a cinema, waiting for a film to start. Two were once an item and are trying to ignore each other. Two are attracted to each other, to the disdain of their friends. Two aren't sure why they're there. |
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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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