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| Aliens v Aliens by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single (office) setting on a far away planet.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | A satirical look at our dependence on technology. which has led to a breakdown in personal social interaction. Aliens plan to invade the Earth but are bewildered by this state of affairs. |
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| All in the Stars by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act play aimed at a large cast of children. |
| Synopsis | King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforeseen consequences follow! |
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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| Alvin And The Queen by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are high school kids plus (nominally) adult narrator. Whilst there is no formal chorus, it's a cafe setting, so there is plenty of opportunity for extras milling around the cafe. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for youth. Single (US School) cafe setting. (One of those things we have difficulty classifying. A comedy in the sense of a happy ending. A light morality play, possibly!) Anyway, the trials of adolescenece. |
| Synopsis | Alvin is your typical high school nerd, and he's desperately in love with Barbie, the homecoming queen and beauty. She's got everything but good grades. Can Alvin make her see him as boyfriend material, or should he look elsewhere? |
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The Amateur Killer by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length murder mystery thriller with multiple endings. |
| Synopsis | Theatre director Daniel is letting his personal history with Lucas affect their relationship as he directs the production of Adieu in the local Dramatic Society. But it’s his knowledge of Lucas’ affair with Natalie that will lead to murder. |
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| Amy's Brief Visit To The Garden Of Earthly Delight by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. There are 22 speaking roles (15 female, 7 male) plus four non-speaking rugby players (*) but it could be played with a lot of doubling by a cast of six.
* For speakers of US English, these would be 'jocks'. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play for a youth theatre or high school company. A bold play, dealing with peer-pressure, and teenage bravado. Contains swearing and teenage themes. |
| Synopsis | Determined to catch up with her friends, Amy loses her virginity to her friend's brother at a drunken party. Unfortunately she doesn't use any protection and finds herself not only pregnant, but sadly wrong about what her friends have been doing. |
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And Then There Were Three! by John F. Glen
Performance by Young Portonians won the SCDA National Youth Drama Final, 2009.
Performance by Greenock Players Youth won the Inverclyde District Festival and SCDA Western Division Finals in 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One of the listed characters is a voice-over which is used at the start of the piece and could be pre-recorded. Whilst the characters are named in the script (for readability) they are presented to the audience anonymously. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for teenagers. Single set (which changes slightly through the play). Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | A disparate group of children meet up in the aftermath of a disaster with a biological weapon that has killed all the adults. Can they learn to co-operate and survive? And what will happen when they reach adulthood? |
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| Angel by Naadir Joseph |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | A moving piece of drama - in which a group of homeless young people are given hope by one of their number, Kevin. His optimism and sense of family brings them courage to face the future. |
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| Antigone by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act adaptation of a Greek myth |
| Synopsis | A dramatic retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy, suitable for performance by secondary/high school students and youth theatre. Two brothers died fighting each other for the throne of Thebes in Ancient Greece. Creon, the new ruler, has decided to honour one (Eleocles) and shame the other (Polynices). Their sister Antigone defies Creon's order and wants to arrange an honourable burial for Polynices. |
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| Apparently Not by Hayley Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play, set in and around a school. |
| Synopsis | A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice. |
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