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Bye Baby Bunting by Mark Green The Williamson Cup for best youth production was awarded to Wilburton Theatre Group at the 2024 Hunstanton One-act drama festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characers' ages range from 7 - 13. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A historical drama for children set in a collapsed mineshaft. |
Synopsis | In January 1839, seven children are working underground in the Lovers Bridge Colliery number four mine when they are trapped by a tunnel collapse. They stoically comfort each other in their fear as they wait for rescue which becomes less and less likely as time passes. |
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Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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A Cabinet Meeting by Seán Lang |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters are written as elderly men, but can be played by actors of any gender. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A small historical backwater provides the backdrop for a moving, compelling drama. One-act play in a single setting (a dining room used for a formal meeting). |
Synopsis | The President of Poland and his cabinet fled to London after the Nazi occupation. Fifty years later, they are still living in exile, and holding regular meetings, despite having no control over what's going on in their homeland. Some of the ministers believe it is time to end it, but the senile President doesn’t want to move on. |
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Caiaphas by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play which can be produced with minimal staging (so could easily be done within a church). |
Synopsis | The events of the last few days of Holy Week are shown from the viewpoint of High Priest Caiaphas and his family. |
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Call To Duty by Nettie Baskcomb Brown The original production won the Five Counties and Mercia division trophies and was a semi-finalist in 2014 All England Theatre Festival, winning adjudicator's award for excellence. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Award winning One Act play for youth theatre with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | Sam is bored by his school history and drama lessons about the First World War, but through his brother's console games, he learns more than he expected. The play vividly brings to life the bravery of ordinary soldiers who fought in World War One by merging modern virtual war games with the shocking reality of the WW1 trenches and using comedy and tragedy to take actors and audiences on an emotional, thought provoking journey. |
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Can There Be Justice For TJ? by Evonne Fields-Gould |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast with mixed ages and some specific ethnicities. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short American drama. Single set (a kitchen, but with parts of the stage used for action that takes place elsewhere). |
Synopsis | Vivian, a distraught mother, recalls the events that led up to the death of her son, killed by a police officer, and the impact it has had on herself and the remaining family members. She has turned to heavy drinking, and wonders whether she can still be a good mother to Little Man. |
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Captain Bluebeard's Monkey by David Pemberton Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Chorus size very flexible, at the Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act piratical fantasy comedy. |
Synopsis | The eponymous monkey uses his guile to thwart the late Captain Bluebeard's swashbuckling crew in their attempts to discover Bluebeard's treasure - which is not what it first appears to be. |
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Caradog And The Celts by Penny Burns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Very flexible numbers, with groups of Celts and Romans of various occupations, and opportunites for singers and dancers. The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but inteded to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Keyboard and Vocal scores (with added percussion) for seven songs and one instrumental are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One-act Musical Drama for schools (fitting with the Key Stage 2 History topic on Roman Britain). |
Synopsis | Following the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, the Celtic resistance was led by Caradog (called Caratacus by the Romans). The play dramatises the life of the Celts on what is now the Welsh border and the battle for the hill fort of Caer Caradog. (We are also taken to Rome for a meeting with the Emperor Clau-Clau-Claudius.) |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Carrie's Lions by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture. |
Synopsis | Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father. |
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A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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