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| Back to the Start by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama told with reverse chronology, mainly in a single kitchen set. Contains appropriately adult language. |
| Synopsis | Jenny and Martin's relationship is charted from its acrimonious ending back to its optimistic beginning. |
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| Badly Drawn by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. There are two on-stage speaking characters, two offstage voices and four masked cartoon characters - products of the cartoonists imagination! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, intreguing, one-act play, dealing with events of a psychological nature. Single, minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Spectre has taken Saskia. Where and why, she can't be sure. As he recounts his tale of shattered dreams, stolen ideas and cursed cartoons, Saskia begins to realise the lines that he draws run parallel to her own and soon both are on a collision course to meltdown. |
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| The Bag Lady by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | A bag lady, with a park bench for company, ruminates about her life as she prepares to sleep. |
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| Baggy Trousers by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play. |
| Synopsis | There's plenty of life left in Sid, although he’s approaching his eightieth birthday. But when Melanie arrives from the Cosy Comfort Care Agency, her blinkered patronising approach forces Sid to re-live scenes from his past. What will it take for Melanie to see - and appreciate - the real man? |
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| Bags And Browning by Liz Carroll |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mary is a homeless woman known as the Bard of the South Bank for her recitations of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Browning. But someone has heard she might have a valuable manuscript, and is willing to kill for it |
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| The Bags Of A Commercial Traveller by John Chambers |
| 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 | Ten-minute play for a cast of two middle-aged ladies. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two women arrive for the funeral of a travelling salesman. One was his wife, the other was his mistress. After each realises who the other is, they exchange a few terse words, then come to realise they have more in common than just one man. |
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Baking Bread by Ashley Harris
Best Seller Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (park bench) set. |
| Synopsis | Bella is back at the bench by the lake, ready to feed the ducks. Before long John arrives and she can share the bread with him. But all is not as it seems, and soon Robin is there to tell Bella it's time to come home. It is a short, but emotive story. |
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| The Ballet of Fervour or Perhaps Bingo by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy-drama set on a stage or in a rehearsal room. |
| Synopsis | A director is sadly disappointed in the calibre of actors available for his masterwork. But though they may not fit the requirements of his play, his assistant happens to have another script they're perfect for - if the director will also act. |
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| Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set. |
| Synopsis | Jessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts. |
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| Bank Holiday Mondays and Other Ways to Kill a Marriage by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two handed play, containing swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pippa and Jake are stranded in a traffic jam on their way home from Jake's parents' house. Worse, they don't have the bag with the baby things for little Josh. He's asleep for now, but surely things couldn't get worse? |
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