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| View from the Prom by Neville Judson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama of a three-way conversation. Easy to stage, requiring just a bench for the three women to sit on. |
| Synopsis | Three women, from three generations of a family, sit on a bench overlooking the beach in Tenby. Tegwyn has decided to send her mother Gwendolyn to an old people's home for a few days, but is uncomfortable about it. Tegwyn's daughter Celyn is not happy being away doing research and wants to come home. Gwendolyn sees four swimmers whom she believes she had last seen many years before.
[Gwendolyn has seen the swimmers before - their meeeting is told from the swimmers' perspective in The Barrier. Knowledge of this is completely irrelevant to the content of this play, but nevertheless, the two plays would work well together.] |
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| Voice of a Flea by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The fifth in Gill Medway's series of monologues about cleaning lady, Violet Brimley. Minimal set (a chair). |
| Synopsis | Violet's latest job finds her at the house of a celebrated actor, whose chances of a prestigious TV award are in serious jeopardy when he appears to jump into some very hot water. Can Violet's famous tact and diplomacy save the day? |
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| The W.I. Blues by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama - with plenty of comedy to lighten the darkness! |
| Synopsis | Grace is hosting an unofficial WI meeting to discuss the threat to the local organisation by 'the wrong sort of people' in the village. Unfortunately, it turns out that her husband isn't just out for the evening - he's gone for good. |
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| The W.I. by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, simple (minimal meeting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | An undercover reporter is trying to gather material that will prove her theory that the WI is a collection of useless women filling their empty lives with trivia, tea and jumble sales. For her, it's going to be an eye-opener, but for the other women, it's regular day at the WI... |
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| A Walk on the Wild Side by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Mary is feeding the birds in the park and bemoaning the local council’s latest ruling, whilst contemplating her arthritic hip. |
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| What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, biiter-sweet piece for a cast of one. No set, but a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | Anne is in her sixties and talking about how she coped with suddenly becoming single again. She's not letting a second man leaving her for another woman get her down, she's picking herself up and living life for herself. |
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| When Life Hands You Lemons by Kate Phimy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A mother and her teenage daughter. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Single domestic setting (which need not be elaborate, but does involve a Christmas tree). Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Chloe isn't that interested in decorating the tree this year, but her Mum is determined that they'll do things just as they always have. Chloe has a better idea for this year, though. |
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| You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
| Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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