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| For Your Tomorrow by Peter Ayre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there are nine characters, doubling of three is invited (for example, the young Albert Parker is intended to be played by the actor who plays David, the older Albert's son.) |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Two domestic sets (in the original production this was one box set, with the location change was achieved by using an upstage curtain to conceal or reveal additional set details). Contains a little swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert is getting old and forgetful, so he's moving in with son and daughter-in-law. His presence and decline add to the problems they're already having with their son. But the play also shows how Albert lived as a young man and husband, and tells of some of the experiences that made him who he was - in particular a little-known second world war campaign that marked a turning-point in the war with Japan. |
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| Frequently Asked Questions by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set. A provocative drama with adult content. |
| Synopsis | Eminent astronomer Professor Smith has long had a theory about the nature of the universe, and whether our position in it is really unique. His lectures and writings have thus far been largely ignored but an enigmatic visitor to his home intriguingly turns everything upon its head. |
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| Further Education by Pete Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Frank and Anne are written with Geordie accents. |
| Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedic play (backed by a bit of recent British history) with a single (scruffy student flat) setting. |
| Synopsis | In this very well observed play, set during the miners' strike in the 1980s, Essex University students, flat sharing Rachel, Emma and Claire invite Durham miner Frank to stay with them whilst he joins the picket line in the locality. The clash of working class and middle class values come to the fore during his stay and in amusing turns both sides learn from the other. |
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The Future by Andrew Harrison
Listed by The Independent as one of the 'Top Five Plays', 2007 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play, single interior set, exploring the merits of living for ever. |
| Synopsis | Three couples meet together over the course of twelve years. During those years a drug is perfected that prevents ageing. The advantages and disadvantages are debated and displayed by the friends at each encounter. |
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| The Game of Love by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act drama, set in the 1960s. Single interior set. Adult subject matter treated seriously. |
| Synopsis | 'Working girl', Carol and her client Tony embark on an emotional journey of personal discovery and revelation between these two very different individuals. |
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| Getting It Right by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 124 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama, aimed at adult audiences, on a full stage set - with practical doors. |
| Synopsis | Chris and Di have been together for some time, and are getting by - on Di's salon and Chris's small removals business, but they've never hosted both sets of parents. Di thinks now is the time. In fact, there's a lot she's thinking about that Chris hasn't considered... |
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| God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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| Gold Cup Week by Peter Green |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play. |
| Synopsis | Suzanne and her three friends agree to provide lodgings in their houses for jockeys attending the Cheltenham race meeting. Their guests have a significant influence on the families' lives, particularly on Suzanne - who experiences a poignant life changing effect. |
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| Good King Richard by Ian Dixon Potter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length historical drama. (A lot of locations, but simple to stage, give or take the butt of malmsey.) |
| Synopsis | After the death of Edward IV, his brother Richard becomes Lord Protector and then King. Richard III is determined to be a good king, but his principles - out of place in the royal court - enable challengers including Henry Tudor to plot his downfall. A counterpoint to Shakespeare's Richard III (which was based on the testimony of Richard's greatest enemy), Good King Richard sets the historical record straight. |
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| The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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