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The Generation Gap by Sheena Weitzel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play. |
Synopsis | Rachael's mum and dad are going out, leaving her to look after Grandad. She's not happy about that, or much else, but Grandad knows more than she thinks and they end up sorting a good deal out between them. |
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Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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Get to Dance by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are 7 female youth actor-dancers (playing ages 14-16) and one 1 adult female actor (playing age aroung 50) |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a youth-theatre company. |
Synopsis | A window in to the lives of the members of a dance academy and their 'welcome' for new member Georgina, an overweight teenager who has decided to try dancing as a last resort in her determination to overcome her weight problem. This one act play deals with bullying in all of its forms with humour, music, dance and pathos as Georgina's journey progresses to its uplifting conclusion. Along the way her stoic strength of character enables her to peel away repressed emotions in others and helps them to come to terms with their own difficulties. |
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Getting On by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for one actor - a good, subtle character piece. Minimal set requirements (a chair). |
Synopsis | Sixty-something Joyce is a lonely widow, but she remains remarkably tolerant despite being neglected by her ambitious son. |
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The Ghost Letter by Mike Plumbley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location (a room). Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | Ellie has brought Tom to her late grandmother's house. In search of... what? |
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Going Out by Sarah Reilly |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters is an adult, but the piece is intended to be played by teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for teenagers. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | A father struggle to understand the confusing pressure of not going out with someone as his son prepares for the school disco. |
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Good Enough by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A hard-hitting one act drama |
Synopsis | Single mother Janine struggles desperately with severe lack of confidence brought about by the derogatory voices of her parents, ex-husband and son which she relives in her head. These voices are played out on stage. |
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Good King Richard by Ian Dixon Potter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length historical drama. (A lot of locations, but simple to stage, give or take the butt of malmsey.) |
Synopsis | After the death of Edward IV, his brother Richard becomes Lord Protector and then King. Richard III is determined to be a good king, but his principles - out of place in the royal court - enable challengers including Henry Tudor to plot his downfall. A counterpoint to Shakespeare's Richard III (which was based on the testimony of Richard's greatest enemy), Good King Richard sets the historical record straight. |
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Grace - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act monologue. Single domestic set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
Synopsis | Grace is sorting through the detritus of her life, and holds a rambling conversation with the audience about the people and places she has known. We finally come round with her to the realisation that her husband has died and she is packing up the house ready to sell. |
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The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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