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How Things Turn Out by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three principal female roles and two small roles (1M, 1F). |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An engaging single set one-act drama with good dialogue, this digs deep into the apparent relationships between three women before a couple of well-placed reveals make us reassess them. |
Synopsis | Judith and Sarah have been invited to a meeting with the solicitor of their sister Pauline, and don’t know why. Pauline’s neighbour and best friend Lisa is also invited. As the three wait to be called in to the conference room, tensions simmer. |
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A Human Write by Amelia Armande Best Seller Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus. Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors). |
Synopsis | After the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events. |
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Missing by Sue Bevan Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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Palindrome by Scott Kingsnorth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act, palindromic drama |
Synopsis | Set a dystopian factory, where the senseless make-work is disturbed only by the enforced dancing and the occasional new arrival, we discover that things can change and still stay the same. |
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Parish Politics by Anne Graham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act historical drama with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | It is 1663. The Civil War may be over but personal battles are still being fought in this English village, whilst ever-harsher laws and severe punishments breed fear, greed and superstition. An illegitimate child born to a single mother is a potential burden on the parish, so apart from the loss of her good name, the mother faces a public thrashing, particularly when the new petty constable is driven by personal revenge. |
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Playing Out by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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Politically Correct by Jennifer Marie Sancho Runner-up in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The four female characters are intended to be accurate representations of historical people. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act drama with a single 'common room' setting. |
Synopsis | Four inmates of an assylum rebel. Jane Austen, Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and Florence Nightingale must work together to agree a plan to escape from their incarceration. |
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Revenge by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (museum) set. |
Synopsis | A tale of the unexpected - as Julia and Margaret visit the museum on what appears to be a normal day they are embroiled in a surprising time-shift ending. |
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