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CosPlay by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. The chorus is optional, but could add a lot to the piece. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Two settings but a simple set design will allow an easy switch between them. |
Synopsis | The boss wants everyone concentrating on the big presentation, but excitement has gripped the office - this weekend is HeroCon, and people are planning their costumes! It soon becomes clear that what you wear on the outside can hide the real you. |
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Covered by Rachel Ihasz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play featuring three teenage girls in a single woodland camp setting. |
Synopsis | Three friends are sharing their monthly camping trip but Trace feels left out. When Erin leaves, she confronts her old friend Marcy but learns more than she was prepared for. |
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Cowards by Stephen Gillard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Four principal male roles plus one female cameo. All other roles can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length drama set at the front during World War One (a cell block and General Haig’s office). Contains appropriately placed adult language. |
Synopsis | Sixteen-year-old Private Harry Blaydon stands accused of cowardice and faces execution by firing squad. He is mentored by old sweat Sarge who acts as a father figure for him. Harry's predicament is compared with the situation General Douglas Haig finds himself in as their destinies play out. |
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Criss Cross by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single, untidy living room set. (Includes discussions of self-harm.) |
Synopsis | Donna's worried about her son Jamie. Since his father died, he's been moody and quiet, even for a teenage boy, and she's found blood on the bedsheets in his room. She's learned a little about self-harm from the internet, but she has to find the courage to face him. |
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Crossing The Line by Pete Benson Performance by Weighton Young Players won the East Riding Section of the All England Theatre Festival, 2019, also picking up best actress, best director and youth section awards. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All characters are aged around eleven or twelve except for Victor Marriot who is an adult at least forty years old. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama for a youth theatre or mixed company. Single (minimal) set. Contains minor bad language. |
Synopsis | Playing games has brought a group of children together in a barn, where they hear how Susan killed an injured cat to put it out of its misery. Then they discover a wanted criminal, shot and on the run. He’ll let them go, as long as Susan stays. He needs her help with something. |
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Cut it Out by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. It is intended that one of the three actors plays multiple roles. The play could be performed by one adult and two teenagers, or by three teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, dealing with self-harm. Minimal set requirments. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Claire has been a self-harmer since the death of her twin sister. Why does she feel guilty, and why does her mother feel guilty too? Why can't they connect over this common bond? A gritty, emotional character piece. |
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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. The play can be acted by an all-male group, an all-female group or a mixed cast. The ensemble roles can be played by a minimum of five but can be expanded to suit the size of the group. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act (by length) modern language adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for young actors, containing all the witchcraft, ghosts and gore you'd expect. (Read the script to see if the level of violence is appropriate to your actors.) |
Synopsis | The Ghost of Macbeth comments on the action and charts the progress of his rise to the Scottish kingship and his downfall. |
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Dance Story by Frank Gibbons Shortlisted in the SCDA Play on Words competition 2011. Performance by Cardigan Theatre won the 'best actress' award at the Pembrokeshire one-act festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The announcer is written male (and sounds male, but need not be). PJs group of dancers are assumed female, but need not be. There are four of them but there could be more or fewer. Two parts written adult, the rest are of high school age. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Not a musical (in the sense that it does not include songs), but the backdrop is rival dance troupes, so dance could be a major element. |
Synopsis | The Dragon Belles dance team are through to the finals of the competition, but one of the members is too ill to dance. In fact, she has a heart condition that can only be cured at a hospital in Canada. Now they need the prize money to send her there, but will her replacement be good enough? |
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Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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Dawn of Remembrance by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A nicely written single-set short with a good handle on the tragedies of war and how they affect the mind. |
Synopsis | Two soldiers in France, during World War 2, discuss what they have been through and what they miss about home, ruminating on how war has changed them forever. |
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