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Hush by Ged Quayle
Published: 22 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA nicely-scripted horror short.
SynopsisSonja 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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The Marrow Conspiracy! by John Britton
Published: 20 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 34 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy in a single set. (It's the living room of a country house, so it's time for the set designer to get out the French windows again.)
SynopsisA country house in the 1930s. When Dorothy’s monster marrow disappears from the vegetable patch, the ramifications spread far and wide. Can Inspector Jarrup of the yard track down the culprit? Meanwhile, Dorothy's husband Basil has a secret of his own.
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I Know A Place by Tony Domaille
Published: 19 August 2025
Winner, Best Play, Avon Short Play Festival, 2025 - JTP Theatre
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 38 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn award-winning one-act play. A compelling crime thriller with a strong exploration of a controlling relationship. Single set, split into three acting areas.
SynopsisLucy 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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A Night of Knights' Tales by Peta Maurice
Published: 19 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Most of the knights are supposed to be male, but they are open to any casting you wish. The narrator role can be divided.
Run TimeAround 24 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play for children romping through Arthurian legend.
SynopsisKing Arthur's knights have assembled, having returned from their quests. Have any of them found the Holy Grail? They share stories of their adventures, and Arthur recalls his own path to becoming king.
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Script Error (Re:Write) by Kieron Toner
Published: 19 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking roles and a witness who stands silently in a corner of the stage.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA play written by a real writer about AI writing a play. It's all getting a bit recursive - but with some important questions on the way.
SynopsisAn AI attempts to write a play about an AI writing a play, only to create a character who questions the nature of theatre and performance, and perhaps even the notion that the AI in question is the one doing the writing.
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Tiresia by Ian Dixon Potter
Published: 18 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 70 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleDrama, one-act structure, but the run-time puts it on the boundary with a full-length play. (So could be paired with something shorter or run on its own.) Multiple locations, but indicated by furniture rather than more elaborate sets.
SynopsisTiresia is an enigmatic young artist, claiming to be the protégé of the famous artist Arthur Rawlinson. In fact, she is Arthur, who was dying and transferred his brain to a younger body. Now, Arthur's friends and partner struggle to adapt to Tiresia.
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Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - Well Almost by Barry Wood
Published: 15 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The script calls for a couple of scene-shifters to come on, visible to the audience. These might be the real stage crew or actors disguised as removal men.
Run TimeAround 108 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy adaptation. Basically a single set, but multiple locations created by changing furniture or other set dressing.
SynopsisThe classic Jane Austen tale of passion and propriety is given a comic twist in this occasionally irreverent re-telling. It features all the major characters and plot points, but adds many more jokes.
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The Valentine Letters by Steve Darlow
Published: 15 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 84 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full-length historical drama, told through (genuine) Second World War correspondence.
SynopsisIn the 1990s, Frances has uncovered the letters sent between her mother Ursula and her father John during World War Two. Her parents come to life and read their letters, detailing John’s life first in the RAF and then in a prisoner of war camp, and Ursula’s struggle to raise a child alone.
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Knock 'Em Dead! by Reece Alexandar
Published: 14 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 21 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy juxtaposing a director's determination to stage a show with a zombie apocalypse. Set on a bare stage.
SynopsisA theatre company are preparing for the opening night of their apocalyptic themed play. Only, the real apocalypse they are all currently in is hindering their progress.
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Who Cares? by Susan Scott
Published: 13 August 2025
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 17. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 119 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length drama (levened with natural comedy) set in a care home. One main set (on stage throughout) with other scenes played downstage with a few pieces of furniture.
SynopsisIn addition to struggle with daily life, the residents and staff of Abbotsferry Lodge care home face a darker problem - Brenda and Edith suspect that the staff are 'disposing of' residents who run out of savings.
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