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Gerald's Bench by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Two men - Gerald and Daniel, meet in a park. Neither are what they appear to be. The park bench is home to Gerald, but he has an unusual reason for being there which involves the unsuspecting Daniel. |
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Guernica Goodbye by William Campbell A production by Progress Theatre won three awards at the Henley-on-Thames Drama Festival, including best production. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, with an imaginative living room set. |
Synopsis | A powerful drama - in which Spanish refugees from the Guernica bombings, having settled in Chartres, find themselves once again embroiled in further conflict against Fascists. War torn France has been liberated, and recriminations and revenge are already setting in. |
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Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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Holding Up A Mirror by Wally Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements (unless three chairs count as a set - in this case, I would count them as props). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A discussion about theatre and the nature of drama... but are you watching them, or are they watching you? |
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Home, Sweet Home by Adam Croft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts in a single living-room setting. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
Synopsis | Richard and wife Claire act as Samaritans as they give homeless Boz a bed for the night in their garage. Their act of kindness rebounds as Boz gradually makes himself at home and Claire is left with a life changing dilemma. |
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Idiot Spaz by Eddie Coleman One of the finallists in the 2016 'British Theatre Challenge' play writing competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance at the British Theatre Challenge showcase ran to 17 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, set at a fair - by or in - the hall of mirrors. |
Synopsis | Peter has cerebral palsy and his carer knows him well. Today, however, she must leave for a new job, and the supervisor believes he knows what Peter needs... But Peter knows better. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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Imaginary Friends by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two female, one male, but other divisions would be possible. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play. No set requirements, simple props (two chairs and a book). |
Synopsis | Two people thrown into a room have to come to terms with the way of preserving sanity adopted by the existing occupant. |
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It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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Jim Jam by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jim, his wife Mary, and one of their sons, are all stuck in a traffic jam. Jim’s frustrated, his wife is trying to stay serene, and their son is desperate for the loo. |
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