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| Little Women [Full Length Play] by Louisa May Alcott ad. Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. 11 onstage characters and 3 offstage voices |
| Run Time | Around 156 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama, adapted from the novel of Louisa May Alcott, set in the 1860s, in a single composite set. |
| Synopsis | A faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, following a mother and her daughters during the American Civil War. With their father away in the war, the four sisters must support the household at the same time as they each deal with the transition to adulthood. |
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| Live by Robin Fusco |
| 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 | A ten-minute play set in an underground bunker. |
| Synopsis | A makeshift family must decide whether to die in the bunker they have called home or to embrace change and brave the outside world. |
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| Looking for Nancy by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tight, efficient dramatic (somewhat melodramatic) sketch set on a ferry (indicated by a ship's rail and a bench). |
| Synopsis | Edith is heading to the mainland with her daughter, Nancy, to do some shopping, but the little girl hasn’t been seen anywhere on the ferry. |
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| Love by John Collings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
| Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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| Love Me Tender by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four Elvis Presley songs are suggested, to be sung by character within the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a mix of comedy and pathos. A single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | In an economic downturn, a fish and chip shop owner and his wife can't decide whether to stay open or move to Spain, while their part-time potato peeler Billy happily sings Elvis songs and dreams of what's under Olga Pike's duffle coat. A tragedy will turn all their lives upside down. |
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| The Magic Apple Tree by Brian Coyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a compound (living room/city street) set. Adult themes, strong language. |
| Synopsis | Nadia’s brother has gone missing in London and can hardly speak a word of English. He appears to be a lost soul, but who are the real lost souls in the city? A magical tale about how when you leave your home and move to a foreign country, you don’t leave what’s happened to you behind. |
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| Mam by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters, and an off-stage - disembodied - voice. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play with a single set and strong characters. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two brothers have taken different paths in life. Richard, the younger, went off to University and made it big in London, married and divorced. Peter stood in for his late father, raising Richard and going out to work to bring in some money. Now they say things long kept secret. |
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| Matters Arising by Richard Moore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama.. |
| Synopsis | A routine will reading reveals a history of complex and shocking bygone misdemeanours matched only by the current web of deceit revealed in the secret lives of the beneficiaries. |
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Me And You by Tony Domaille
Journeyman Theatre Productions - Best Director, Best actor, Best actress and Best Supporting actor, Avon Short Play Festival 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama. Part II of the author's Changes trilogy. |
| Synopsis | Phil and his mates have bungled a robbery and he and his friend, Mikey, have run to the only safe place they can think of: The 'Me & You Café', owned by Phil’s daughter. Whilst they wait to see if the police are on to them, Phil and his daughter find themselves exploring how it all came to this, and whether their relationship can withstand past and present pressures. |
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| Mermaid by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play - a scene with a twist - that rapidly establishes character and plot. |
| Synopsis | It would be the birthday of Laura and Nathan's daughter, who's been missing for twelve years. They receive an unusual phone call. |
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