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Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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Telling It by Annie Connell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Two settings, but easily combined into a single set. |
Synopsis | As two officers interview a woman claiming to be the victim of domestic violence, problems with her story make them suspicious. Despite her deception, she's still a victim, and it looks like there could be a violent offender out there. |
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Truth and Reconciliation by Cassandra Newman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Emotionally-charged one-act drama set in a basement office. |
Synopsis | Anita has come to the Baltimore Truth and Reconciliation Commission to tell the story of her son's death, only to find one of the people there to record her statement witnessed the death. The three characters struggle to find a path to peace and forgiveness in the aftermath of violence and fear. |
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Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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Way Off Course by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Inspector Whalley and colleagues investigate the iniquities of a team-building course - and win the gratitude of the boss into the bargain. 'Way Off Course' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2. |
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White Rock by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller with one set comprising three simple settings. |
Synopsis | Autocratic Sir James Bannerman is the long time head of the family publishing firm and brooks no argument from his fellow directors, two of whom are his adult children. Everyone at the office has their own compelling reasons to be rid of him and when he is murdered Inspector Hilliard has his work cut out to find the culprit. |
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