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| The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
| Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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| Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The narrator's role could be split amongst several actors. There are opening and closing choruses which could be performed by the ensemble or by additional actors/singers. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (The estimated run time assumes the music; without music it could be performed in 12 minutes.) |
| Music | The music is designed to run continuously, so there is one 25-minute score. (It is divided into sections for rehearsal purposes.) |
| Style | A short musical play, retelling the Pardoner's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. (Could also be performed as a verse play without the music.) |
| Synopsis | This drama recounts the story of three young men who bestir themselves from their wine-sodden lives to hunt and kill Death, but instead fall victim to him through greed and treachery. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** CD with full backing track (25 minutes) and full sung demo for Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards.
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Hush by Ged Quayle
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A nicely-scripted horror short. |
| Synopsis | Sonja is a very junior social worker running low level errands. Mrs Barratt is a very nice middle-class lady. Sonja just has to pop into Mrs Barratt's, check on her husband and go on with her day, but Mrs Barratt is hiding a terrible secret. From herself. |
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I Believe In Angels by Tony Domaille
Octopus Youth. Bristol One Act Festival Best Youth Play award 1994. Runner up in the Five Counties One Act Festival 1994. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play, suitable for youth theatre, with a single (garden of remembrance) setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of teenagers meet to have a séance and call up the spirit of Steve, their friend who has died. Between them they confront their grief, fear, and what they can and cannot believe. |
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| I Have A Vision by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama in two acts, informed by the three years the author spent working on two reserves in Saskatchewan. |
| Synopsis | Two years on a reservation in Canada, as the elections bring a new chief with a new vision, but Richard can't offer the people the same good times his predecessor Gerald did. He wants them to think long term and to make changes for their children's future.
A moving play, throwing new light on an old struggle. |
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I Know A Place by Tony Domaille
New Winner, Best Play, Avon Short Play Festival, 2025 - JTP Theatre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the (introductory) recorded voice of a journalist. DCI Brown is written female, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An award-winning one-act play. A compelling crime thriller with a strong exploration of a controlling relationship. Single set, split into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | Lucy Evans is missing, and her ex-boyfriend Damien Curtis is in police custody, as the prime suspect. But Curtis won't speak to the police and the only person he will talk to is forensic psychiatrist Dr Vincent, who finds himself in a race against time to find Lucy. |
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| I Really Need This Job by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage female characters and the off-stage voice of the male would-be employer. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama exploring issues younger and older women face in the world of work. Set in Canada (but permissible change of a word or two could put it anywhere else). |
| Synopsis | A new graduate and an older woman, who's been out of the job market for a number of years, have applied for the same job and meet while they are waiting to be interviewed. Will either be employed? |
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| I Stand Alone by Kevin Broughton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama in two acts. Four locations, but designed for minimal staging. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | An allegorical play.
In the far future, Britain has been ravaged by an external conflict and a civil war between the returning Celts, who restored the country, and the native Saxons who feel they have been pushed aside. |
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| I Will Pass My Jeans On by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play. |
| Synopsis | Tara and Abbie are washing and ironing their mum’s old clothes, getting ready to pass them on to charity. Mum can’t resist giving them advice, but she is not all there. |
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| I'm Not One To Gossip But... by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Brenda has met up with her old friend Sharon for lunch and a friendly gossip at Phillip's café. Through the gossip, a few skeletons in Phillip's cupboard are revealed. |
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