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The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Optional female chorus. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations, but simple set requirements, with main scenes played on the full stage and smaller scenes downstage with a few pieces of furniture. |
Synopsis | In 1946, teenage Nancy tracks down her birth mother Mary to one of the many 'Magdalen laundries' set up in Ireland to house women shunned by society for unmarried pregnancies. But why doesn't Mary want to leave with Nancy? Sixteen years earlier, during Mary's first days at the laundry, she and the other women deal with isolation, pregnancies, and mistreatment from the nuns and priests. |
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The Match Girl's New Year's Eve by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The cook is written male, but need not be. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for schools, based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
Synopsis | A friend, a cook, two nutcrackers and grandmother of course, drop in to make the little match girl's New Year's Eve warm and bright. |
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The Mayor's Christmas Masquerade by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play based on Mary E. Wilkins's The Christmas Masquerade |
Synopsis | The Mayor is throwing a masquerade party for the children of the town at Christmas, and a new Costumer has provided costumes for all the children. However, when the party is over, the costumes won’t come off. The Costumer has demands to make of the Mayor, or the kids stay Princesses forever. |
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Meet the Ancient Greeks - Mini Plays by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) for a school class studying The Ancient Greeks (English National Curriculum Key Stages 1 & 2, Units 14 and 15, 'The Ancient Greeks'). No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
Synopsis | Five different short plays with an Ancient Greek theme, covering The Gods, War, the Olympics, Theatre and the Arts. |
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Merry Christmas Everyone by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple, thoughtful short play for Christmas. Single set (just enough to indicate a family home). Originally published 2013, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | The family are just trying to have a day together to enjoy the important things of Christmas - the food, the presents and not having to watch the Eastenders special with Grandma - when a homeless man at the door really spoils the mood. But he must be mad... He says he's Jesus. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream In 17 And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] (But see also the title - which assumes a fast pace.) |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Shakespearean comedy with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | A fast-paced version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Perfect for schools, this is a compact, humorous adaptation of the classic tale of love and mishap in seventeen and a half minutes or less. |
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A Midsummer Nightmare by Karen Ince |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play for schools - with a single, village tavern, setting. |
Synopsis | William Shakespeare is suffering with writers' block. Struggling to find inspiration he visits a local inn, and whilst listening to a group of local workmen - who are planning to put on a play for a special wedding day, comes up with the plot he is looking for. |
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The Most Beautiful Flower by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). No formal scenes, but several location changes which, in the original production, were managed by the soldiers moving furniture! |
Synopsis | The young prince of a kingdom inherits the throne and decrees that, since his late father was given a lot of bad advice by his elderly advisors, all old people must be banished. In the meantime his daughter must find a husband from the remaining young men of the kingdom. One young farmer enlists the help and wisdom of his grandfather, who hid from the guards rather than face exile, to win the princess's heart - and restore the new king's trust in the wisdom of age. |
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Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple one act play. |
Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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Noah's Ark [Version 2] by Steven Bergman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The cast includes a number of animals, with an optional crowd of all the animals available! |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dramatisation. (The setting is described as a desert! Minimal staging is implied.) |
Synopsis | The biblical story of Noah brought to life with contributions by a pigeon, a pig, a monkey and a cow. |
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