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| The First Step by Kathleen Maule Holen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama with an unexpected trajectory. Multiple settings but with minimal set requirements - lighting and 'furniture' should be enough. (American English.) |
| Synopsis | A group of friends meet just before dawn on New Year's Day, just as they have for fourteen years, but this year is going to be different. Dotty has decided that, rather than make and break resolutions, they’re going to do something. |
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| The Fisherman by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A lengthy monologue with no set required. |
| Synopsis | The life of an East Coast fisherman, before and after the Second World War, is related in an evocative monologue. |
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Five Black Marks by Deborah Hugill
Production by Allerton Players won Best Production, Best Actress, Best Technical Achievement award and the Audience Award at Richmond Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and one recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An atmospheric supernatural drama. |
| Synopsis | Three friends are spending the night in an abandoned school on Halloween. A teacher died in fire there, many years ago, and at least one of the girls is hoping the ghost will appear. What they don't know is how the fire started. |
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The Five Stages Of Grief by Danielle Vanasse
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with several simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Lori experiences the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) after her father, Nathan, dies in a fire in his office building She is left with her mother Julie and her brother Ryan as they work together as a family to grieve and accept Nathan's death. |
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| The Flag by Neil Walden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easy-to-stage one-act drama for three actors in one simple office set. |
| Synopsis | A school in 1930s England is set to welcome an ambassador from Nazi Germany, whose child is one of the pupils. Headteacher Mrs Mayhew wants to fly the Nazi flag for the visitor's arrival, but young teacher Miss Tait raises an objection.
A good period drama with a sharp focus on an area of pre-WW2 history that's often overlooked - how a lot of British people were generally welcoming towards the Nazis, or at least apathetic about their politics, in the years before the war. It also has some relevance to the contemporary debates around flags. |
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| Flesh and Blood by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Joanne has cared for her half-brother Eddie, who has learning difficulties, for many years whilst her brother Carl has avoided the issue. In one weekend Eddie and Carl come together in a revelatory expression of brotherly love. |
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| Flights of Fancy by Ryan Curtis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Strong female lead. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in two pubs, with the light comedy of the opening scenes leading into some serious drama. Good opportunities for character acting. |
| Synopsis | Not much goes on in the sleepy village of Bollington by the Maze - outside of the passion for playing darts shared by the two local pub teams. Saying that the residents are stuck in their ways would be an understatement! So, when a female player applies to join the men's darts team at the White Horse and a player decides to defect from the Red Lion, chaos ensues. |
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| Floor 13 by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, exploring character and motivation. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Four different characters are stranded on the thirteenth floor by an uncooperative lift. There are no stairs or other exits. How did they get here? Where should they go? |
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The Florist by Iris Winston
Winner of the Ottawa Little Theatre national playwriting competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play. Single set (florist's shop). |
| Synopsis | George Bernard Shaw drops into a Flower shop run by a lady called Liza and they talk of her old friends, and the life she has led. |
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| The Fog of War by Joanne Higginson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One track, to be played from a stereo at the opening of the play, is suggested in the producer's script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (living room) setting. Strong language. |
| Synopsis | 21 year old Tanya has recently lost her husband in Afghanistan due to friendly fire. Her cousin Anna, who she hasn't seen for some time, visits from Canada for the funeral. As the cousins discuss the past, unexpected truths are revealed and Anna realises Tanya isn't the grieving widow the press expect her to be. |
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