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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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Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
Synopsis | A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme. |
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Arthur, Boy-King Of Britain by Andrew Beattie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 18. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. All parts written as M, but could be adapted if insufficient M cast available. |
Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for children, with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | A good dramatisation of the story of the boy Arthur, his links with Merlin, and the legend of the Sword in the Stone. The story and characters are well-drawn, from Arthurian legend. |
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As It Was by Lucy Atkinson Best Seller Winner of The Russell Whiteley Award for new writing at Sedgefield's 43rd Drama Festival of One-Act Plays. 2019 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act supernatural drama on a simple set. Suitable for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Four teenagers enter a derelict house, stirring memories of the children who lived there in the past. |
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As They Like It by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light one act drama with a 17th Century Inn setting. |
Synopsis | William Shakespeare is struggling to get the approval of his company, who are adamant that the first draft of the 'Scottish Play' is lacking in a number of key characters. His friends are quite persuasive and he is encouraged by barmaid Meg. So the bard relents and the play - as we now know it - is born. |
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Asking For Trouble by Pat Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short topical play with simple sets. |
Synopsis | Two girls, approaching their sixteenth birthdays, go out and are refused entry to a club. Against their will, an older guy gets in to share their taxi and there is an unwanted incident. Was how they were dressed a contributory factor? |
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The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party) |
Synopsis | A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him? |
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Attagirls by Emma Wise |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama. Single set (it's actually set in a very specific location, but really the requirements for set are negligible). |
Synopsis | Through monologues and dialogue, British pilot Ann and American engineer Lillian address what life was like for the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary - or the 'Attagirls' - during World War II. |
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The Attic Room by Elizabeth Anne Wells |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a single set, an attic in WWII-era Vienna. |
Synopsis | Hanna, a young Jewish girl, hides from the Nazis in the house of an Austrian family. When soldiers begin to search the street, the family rush to decide what is right and wrong. |
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