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| The Big Courtroom Drama by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters are a (male) teacher and his (mixed) class of (older teenage) students. The text assumes a chorus ('the rest of the class'), but it would be possible to play the piece without them. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set in a modern drama classroom. Props are mainly tables and chairs. |
| Synopsis | A group of drama students improvise a courtroom scene, but when the teacher becomes the accused, can they tell where the make-believe ends? |
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| The Big Event by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Trainee Assistant Librarian Poppy is in charge for the day, but the library is under refurbishment - in preparation for the anniversary of the visit of Elizabeth the First. Village characters drop by the library to discuss the upcoming celebration and inspect - and protest - about the building work. |
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| The Big Heat by P. J. Reed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Kai is written male, but could be female. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short dramatic monologue. set around a(nother) park bench. (That rare thing, a post-apocalyptic play that doesn't include zombies.) |
| Synopsis | In a future version of London that has become a hellish dystopia thanks to climate change and an authoritarian government, Kai sits on a park bench and enjoys his lunch break. |
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| The Big Night IN by Richard Marsh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy, with adult themes and language, set in a living room. |
| Synopsis | Great pals Tony, Rob, Simon and Gary meet for another of their usual - nights out. They become dismayed when they realise that they are getting older, girlfriends are getting serious and marriage, kids, slippers, and mortgages beckon. But even staying IN is not as simple as it used to be. |
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Big Top Barry by Brent Alles
Production by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago, IL, Playground Festival 2024, Audience Choice Award Winner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple story with a strong moral message and plenty of animal-themed fun. American English. |
| Synopsis | The Linguini Brothers Circus's most famous act is Lionel the lion whose roar thrills and chills crowds wherever he goes. Lionel's young son, Barry, can't roar like his dad and needs to find what he can do to be a star on his own. |
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| Bigger Fish by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Crime drama from a slice of 1960s British history. Multiple sets, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama. (Could be paired with a shorter play for an evening of one-act drama, or stand on its own.) |
| Synopsis | Policeman 'Nipper' Read sees The Great Train Robbery as a chance, not just to make his mark in the police force, but to get the chance to go after the bigger fish - starting with the Kray twins. It’ll take time, but he's a determined man. |
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** Jpeg image by Jo Goodberry designed to form the basis for a poster for 'Bigger Fish' by Clive David Lloyd Williams
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Bill & Ben by Richard James
Performance by Tiger Theatrical Productions won Best Comedy and Best Actor at the 2014 Spelthorne and Runneymede drama festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play - a two hander involving playwrights. |
| Synopsis | Ben Jonson is spending his last day in his condemned cell, after killing an actor in a duel. He has a surprise visitor - William Shakespeare, who comes to plead with him to perform a 'neck-verse' - reciting a Psalm, that may save him from the noose. But what does Shakespeare have to gain? |
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| Bill, Emmie and the Queen of Tonga by Philippa Roberts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are two adults plus one with a playing age of late teens to twenty and one with a playing age of a younger teenager. (Could be done by a mixed company of adults and younger actors or by a youth theatre company.) |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play in which a small piece of real history illuminates a slice of family life. Single (simple domestic) set. |
| Synopsis | A couple have traveled from Tonga to see their own queen come to England, and to make sure that their niece and nephew watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second on TV while their parents are in London. Unfortunately they are much more interested in the Tongan queen than in Elizabeth. |
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Billy's Will by Seymour Cresswell
Runner-up Best Play, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Adjudicator's Award for Best Moment of Theatre at Glenealy One Act Drama Festival, January 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Award-winning one-act drama in a single (Dublin living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Rookie solicitor David has been sent to draw up a will for Billy, an aged alcoholic, struck off solicitor. The straightforward task becomes complicated for David, as he witnesses family tensions and division - with their various disputes and secrets. |
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| The Birdman of Barnocky by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama on a single (disused hotel lounge) set. |
| Synopsis | Having scattered his wife’s ashes on the island they both loved, Michael is hopeful he can buy the place and open the hotel they’d planned. But Alex also has plans for the island, as does Danny’s family. It’s enough to make you curse... |
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