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| An Irregular Satellite by Meg Schenk |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Female character also sings. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for one of the two songs is provided with the Producer's copy of this script. (The other is a suggestion of a popular song.) |
| Style | A one act love story, with two songs, and a single simple set. |
| Synopsis | In an imaginative setting, good friends Fran and Scott gradually discover their love for each other. Written in American English. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Is That You, Clint? by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda muses about the obscene phone calls her social worker, Shardonnay - with an S - has been receiving. And then about her own calls, after a date-disaster and a no-show, and would it be Clint? |
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| It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
| Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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| Jane Eyre by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 134 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length dramatic adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel |
| Synopsis | An adaption of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel, telling the story of Jane, who takes the position of governess of Mr Rochester's young French ward in 1846. |
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| Janet and John by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, largely through a series of intertwined monologues. |
| Synopsis | Janet and John have been married a long time, but she has no idea what announcement he might have in store for her. She only knows that it's unheard for him to give up his Friday night at the railway society to take her out to dinner. Why? |
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| Joe Briggs-Widower by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 170 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Single farmhouse kitchen set. |
| Synopsis | Joe Briggs, widowed five years previously, breeds pigs on a hill farm. He lives with his only daughter Kate, a single schoolteacher. His farm-worker is Vincent who is also unmarried and who has lived in a tied cottage since he was a boy. Joe's elder sister, the many times wed Gertrude, keeps the financial records. The pig industry is in a downturn and against Joe's wishes Gertrude employs Lesley Jardine, a business consultant for advice. This results in Liz Ryan co-owner of Ryan's Country Foods Ltd, coming to the farm. Having planned on living a quiet life, Joe is thrust into a world he doesn't understand. His business is unprofitable, he has a failed relationship and there are plans to construct a wind farm on his land. |
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| John's Mother by Helen Boyce |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Jenny knows that John’s mother isn’t her biggest fan, but when the put-downs and asides get too much, she confides to her best friend that she’d love Diane out of the way. But then Diane dies and the real trouble starts. |
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| John's Wife by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are four women one of whom appears at the start, another at the end (giving room for doubling). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. |
| Synopsis | When Chris's happy life is devastated by the accidental death of her beloved Husband, she feels that it has turned into a nightmare. Sara, her good friend tries to convince her that given time, things will improve, but is she correct, or, with the arrival of Maria, is the nightmare just beginning? |
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| Just Good Friends by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute play around a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jane has just broken up with her latest boyfriend, and as usual, Tim is waiting to console her. But maybe this is his chance to step out of the friend zone and admit his feelings to her? |
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Kecks by John Chambers
Performance by The Legion Players won the Isle of Man One-act Play Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are a mother and her (young adult) daughter. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Contains adult themes and mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Karen and her mother Petula are in an exclusive lingerie shop, preparing for Karen's wedding night. Petula is prompted to reveal more than Karen wants to hear about her own sex life, but then when she tries on a basque, Karen reveals more than she wanted to about her own relationship. |
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