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Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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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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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, Tiberius by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The numbers of soldiers and secret service agents can be treated flexibly. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, set in Roman Britain. Single set (to the point of almost no set at all) and simple props, give or take the solid gold Egyptian statuette. |
Synopsis | When Tiberius Pompus arrives from Rome to take up a governorship in the wilderness that is Eastern Britain he is looking for peace and a quiet life. He has every faith in his long-suffering personal assistant, Flavia, and his military commander, Ludicrous. Unfortunately restless locals in the form of the Iceni tribe and in particular the ambitiously troublesome Boudicca prove a thorn in his side. What Tiberius needs least is a visit from newly-appointed Emperor and old school friend, Marcus Antonius, accompanied by the Emperor's girlfriend, the ultra-glamorous and even more ultra-temperamental Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. It is imperative that the Emperor's stay goes perfectly. It doesn't. |
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I've Been Expecting You, Mr Smirk by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Smirk, Kazmarov and Starkley are male. Grainger and Lee are written male but might have female counterparts. Tremaine, Ramona and Goodpenny are female. All other characters could be either gender. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy spy spoof for youth theatre. Lots of locations but not much set! |
Synopsis | When Anatoly Kazmarov, recently convicted head of international criminal gang STINK, is sprung from a top-security escape-proof prison, it is obvious that someone even more fiendish than Kazmarov is involved. This is clearly a job for The Secret Department's top man, the suave, debonair (but largely inept) Dirk Smirk. It's just as well that the impossibly beautiful Captain Tremaine is on hand to help him out as a plot to bring the world order to its knees gets underway. |
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If Music be the Food of Love by Ethan Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst all of the characters are written male, three could easily be played female (with minor name changes). |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute verse play for kids. Two scenes, but no set requirements. |
Synopsis | A greedy and selfish king is taught the value of life by his caring son and a local musician. |
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If You Go Down To The Woods Today by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Several of the characters are written male but could be played either. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single (lack of) set. |
Synopsis | When the royal teddy bear goes missing during a bout of palace spring cleaning, the Princess is distraught, particularly as this disaster befalls her on the eve of her birthday party. The task of finding the bear falls to the King and the Prime Minister whose progress sees them one step behind the Princess's favourite toy even when it fortuitously finds its way back to the palace. |
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Imagination by Garry R. Keane |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The characters are mainly children, but there are two adults, so it could be played either by a youth group or by a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a school group. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Sally's life has been in turmoil, with a change of house, and school, but it's the events at the end of sixth grade that really affected her. Now she's happier with her imaginary friends and parties, but that has to change too. |
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