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Gino of the Lamp by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (which could be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Single New York apartment set Contains swearing (and fantasy). |
Synopsis | Betsy is trying to get used to her lousy apartment after finally breaking up with Eddie after thirteen years. When she absently rubs an old lamp, Gino emerges and offers her a single wish. Out of the whole, what is it that Betsy will wish for? |
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Gold! by Kate Stafford |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing). |
Synopsis | Julie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them. |
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The Good Old Days? by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Care Home manager can be m or f. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single, Care Home lounge, setting. |
Synopsis | Based on actual events, we see care home resident Ada relate her personal history to the rather flippant young cub reporter Claire, who at first is there on sufferance. As Ada's tragic story enfolds, Claire becomes increasingly interested and empathetic, and realises that her naïve impression of the old days belies the inherent prejudices which existed to shape and ruin people's lives. |
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Happily Ever Laughter by Keith Mackenzie New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single (office) location. |
Synopsis | Linda is close to quitting her job as a Wedding Planner, and she's not encouraged to keep going by the ever more eccentric ideas of Olivia. Olivia is determined her wedding to Ben will be memorable, whether he likes it or not. |
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I Remember When by Dawn Cairns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three on-stage characters plus four off-stage (including two children) who might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single camp-site setting. |
Synopsis | John looks forward to re-visiting his childhood holiday campsite but his wife Sheila is not so sure, particularly when John insists his curmudgeonly mother come along too. |
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Kill-Joy by Mike Rouse Partington Theatre Glossop 2018, Best Actress award, Rachael Hope, under original title of Mirror Image. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the two on-stage characters, there is a radio announcer's voice at the start. This is likely to be a recording. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] First production timed at 27 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller. Single set (which may be very simple). Contains swearing and adult themes. |
Synopsis | A man and a woman stumble into an alley behind a club. It’s clear what his intentions are, but she’s not going along with him. Not here, not now, not with a serial killer on the loose. |
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A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) |
Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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The Man From Clerihan by Paul Maher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy-drama in a single kitchen set. Themes from Chekhov's 'The Bear' elegantly reworked into modern day Ireland. |
Synopsis | Willie Cleary, a builder, calls on Mary Kate, the young widow of his recently deceased best friend, to collect money that is owing to him. Mary Kate is adamant that she owes him no money, so there is a high stakes stand-off. Mary Kate's fun-loving sister is only too happy to stoke-up the tension in a ferocious battle of wits between a very stubborn man and an equally stubborn woman. |
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Marigolds - Piling on the Agony by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Characters are a couple and their adult daughter. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy of self discovery. Contains swearing and a verbally explicit exploration of sexual themes. |
Synopsis | Harry and Marigold have a rocky marriage, but it's not in as bad shape as his... posterior. After he gets his long-suffering wife to help him out, we follow Harry and his family through more pain to reconciliation. Not for the faint-hearted! |
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A Meeting of Minds by Catherine Willacy & Andrew Bramble Production by Cairns Little Theatre Inc, Queensland won Best Drama in the FNQATA One Act Play Festival in May 2018, in the Open Section for plays of 16-45 minutes. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama, well suited for festival performance. |
Synopsis | An unexpected reunion leads to hard truths and hilarious memories. But what exactly is their relationship, and where will it all end? |
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