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Nightwalking by Frank Canino
Won third place in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (international play-writing competition) 2014
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!] This is right at the lower time limit for one-act play festivals, but a brilliant festival piece.
MusicNone.
StyleChamber theatre piece - black-box set, with a stepladder as the sole piece of furniture. The actors communicate through interior monologues and movement.
SynopsisA young wife discovers that her husband is going out at night, when he thinks she is asleep. What should she do? What will she find if she follows him? What will become of their relationship if she follows him or if she does not?
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No Strings Attached by Johnny Grim
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA one act play with music, set in a puppet tent.
SynopsisFlip and Scratch are fairground puppets, once big stars but now fallen on hard times. Faced with the inevitable decline of their audiences, they discuss their various options.
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Normal For by Tony Domaille
Winner UK Community Drama Festivals Federation 'Geoffrey Whitworth Trophy' for the Best Original script of 2022
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
Style One-act drama in a single set. A great festival piece with potential for use in child protection workshops as a discussion starter.
SynopsisTeacher Emma worries about a nine-year-old boy in her class. But when she raises concerns, they are dismissed as 'Normal for here'. As she struggles against a culture of indifference, Emma finds herself facing a real dilemma.
Articulates the dilemmas of teachers suspecting that pupils are abuse victims. The classroom setting and focus on the teacher allows it to honestly and openly explore these issues while not actually having to use any child actors or depict any abuse.
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Not Long Before Waking by Matthew Taylor
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTheatrical surrealism (the actors are on stage, but their dialogue comes through a soundtrack). Short play, single set, a few props.
SynopsisTwo characters share a discussion inside a strange dream. The devil observes!
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One Mistake by Stephen Scheurer-Smith
Winner of Cambridge Drama Festival 2008
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 41 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play Psychic Babble.
SynopsisAn alcoholic has-been pop star is on the road with her daughter reluctantly in tow. They're the last ones in the hotel bar, but the bartender, a former City high-flyer, has a surprising past of his own.
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The Peterloo Principle by William Campbell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with minimal set requirements.
SynopsisA manager is having trouble seeing past the firm’s regulations when it comes to a friend’s problems, so she takes him back to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 to give him some perspective.
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The Pitch by Hilary Mackelden
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 3 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort sketch intended for church groups.
SynopsisFilm-makers pitch a movie called 'The Father of God'. (Matthew , 18-25)
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Point of Departure by Mike Smith
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cameo role - the acquaintance - is written male, but could be of either gender.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen minute play set in a car. How the car is realised is left to the discretion of the producer - though the script does empahsise that cars tend to make a noise.
SynopsisBill and Jane are dropping off an acquaintance when he makes an innocent remark. Bill suddenly realizes there's something he doesn't know about Jane, something small but significant and he wants to talk about it more than he wants to drive home.
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Questions by Susan Vesey
Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short play, with a minimal set.
SynopsisEdward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it.
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Reality? by Bob Tucker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one teenager.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleStartling fifteen minute play. Single set (just a couch), minimal props.
SynopsisWhat's going on? They appear to be a family, but they don't agree about who's who - or, indeed anything else!
Parallel universes are colliding in one house, causing confusion about identity, location and time.
(Okay, strictly, if they are parallel it should not be possible for them to collide, but the grammatical part of 'Multiverse' theory is not yet as advanced as the mathematics, so you'll just have to put up with an imprecise description!)
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