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Five Black Marks by Deborah Hugill
Production by Allerton Players won Best Production, Best Actress, Best Technical Achievement award and the Audience Award at Richmond Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and one recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An atmospheric supernatural drama. |
| Synopsis | Three friends are spending the night in an abandoned school on Halloween. A teacher died in fire there, many years ago, and at least one of the girls is hoping the ghost will appear. What they don't know is how the fire started. |
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| For Sale - Baby Shoes - Never Worn by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The work is divided into three pieces, each for 1M, 1F. In theory the same pair of actors could play the roles in all three - one member of the couple in the first part appears in each of the succeeding parts. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sort of triptych for the stage. Three linked short plays, with minimal sets - essentially three stage blocks and a few props. |
| Synopsis | The story goes that Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a novel in six words. His response was 'For sale - baby shoes, never worn.' Damian Trasler takes each part of that phrase as the starting point of a short play - three stories in the life of a young couple, not necessarily going in the direction you might expect. |
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| The Fortune Teller by Noel Broderick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (traveller’s caravan) setting. |
| Synopsis | The Lisdoonvarna Match-making Festival in the West of Ireland is famous for pairing up bachelor farmers with single women hoping for a quiet life in the countryside, as well as 'sideshows' like Madam Bridget and her daughter Bridgeen, seventh daughters of seventh daughters who claim to have fortune-telling abilities. Their ‘powers’ are successful in re-uniting estranged couple Jim and Colette. |
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| Forty-Two by Amanda Giles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The voice of the App could be recorded or played live. The angels are written male, but since they are angels this scarcely matters. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for a couple of pieces of furniture, four actors and the gentle voice of a phone app. (British English, using 'lounge' for 'living room' and including slang for a cigarette which might confuse speakers of other varieties of English.) |
| Synopsis | Jemima has just woken up from her meditation cd session to find three strange men in her living room. Well, not men, they're angels, summoned by the cd she has just listened to. They have answers for Jemima, but she won’t like them... |
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| Frozen Fish Sticks by Rosemary Frisino Toohey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Difference in the three ladies ages - for optimum casting. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | It's a focus group... And the focus of the focus group is frozen food packaging.
But before long the three women involved are way off the charts with their views on men, sex and life. |
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| Funeral for the Cat by B. G. Craig |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Elizabeth is written female, but could be played male (and renamed Elliot). |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A good mix of emotional drama and dark but gentle comedy. Easy to stage on a single living room set.
US English. |
| Synopsis | Judy, an elderly widow, is holding a funeral for her beloved and recently departed cat. Her daughter and granddaughter are alarmed to find that, since a pet coffin was too expensive, Miss Mopsy is lying on the coffee table. |
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| Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
| Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men.
(Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
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| The Gloves Are Off by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | What looks like marital bliss to the outside world is a facade to a hidden world of domestic violence, one that Jack and Natalie live with every day. |
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| A Good Man by Megan Ott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, set in 1930s New England, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Katherine and her husband Robert are apprehensive about the forthcoming visit of Katherine's sister Margaret, who has a psychological problem which may cause difficulties for them. Tension rises inexorably - as their worst fears are met. |
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| Great Moments in History, Number 4 by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 (female) Angel and Three Shepherds |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute skit. Contains mild swearing. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | Christmas - The Untold Story. In which an angel takes a wrong turning... |
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