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Just Good Friends by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute play around a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jane has just broken up with her latest boyfriend, and as usual, Tim is waiting to console her. But maybe this is his chance to step out of the friend zone and admit his feelings to her? |
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Last of the Meagans by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their young adult son. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play, single set. Minimal props. Contains adult themes. |
Synopsis | A father argues with his remaining son after the funeral of his youngest son, a victim of the Iraq war. Family revelations follow harsh words and it's left to Mom to hold the family together. |
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The Last Thing On His Mind by Mike Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two elderly men and a cameo female nurse. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute (or so) play. Single set - a couple of chairs and a table to indicate the terrace of a retirement home. A wonderful piece of writing which, very indirectly, says a lot about the characters. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Sitting in the sun outside his nursing home, Mr James is consumed by the memory of sex with a woman he can't remember the name of. His companion wishes he would change the subject, but Mr James chases the thought around and around. |
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The Last Visitor by Allan Williams Winner [under the name of The Visitor] of the Anglesey, Leverhulme and Wilmslow Drama Festivals, 2013 (plus various best actor awards). |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play. |
Synopsis | Harry is an old man in a retirement home. Happy with the pace of life, he's surprised to receive a young visitor who seems to know a lot about Harry's wartime record. But there's more to the visitor than Harry suspects, because they have met before, just once - in a trench in France... |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play |
Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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Life in the Cloud by Tony Domaille Best Seller Palace Players - Winner Ballincollig Drama Festival 2022 |
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 | One-act play in a single living room set. The sci-fi-esque idea of a dead man's consciousness stored in the cloud is used for an engaging exploration of grief and moving on. |
Synopsis | Ian was a workaholic, obsessed with his scientific work, until his sudden death. But before he died, he discovered how to upload his consciousness to The Cloud. Now he is trying to continue to live from the ether, whilst his wife, Mary, desperately tries to get on with her life and a new relationship. |
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The Lost Sheep by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
Synopsis | A chance meeting on a train - a reflection on Christianity in every-day life. |
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Love in the Time of Zombies by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One of the few one-act stage treatments of the zombie apocalypse. Single living room set. Contains mild (especially for a world over-run by the living dead) swearing. |
Synopsis | Sometime in the near future. As flesh eating zombies terrorise the world, Brian and Susan attempt to maintain a normal life... |
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Make Up by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One offstage voice, could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Partners in comedy for many years, Bob and Roy have reached a crisis point. Bob has had enough of the club circuit, but Roy isn't ready to give up. Will the two be able to compromise, or is it the end of the road? |
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Mam by Allan Williams |
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 - disembodied - voice. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play with a single set and strong characters. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Two brothers have taken different paths in life. Richard, the younger, went off to University and made it big in London, married and divorced. Peter stood in for his late father, raising Richard and going out to work to bring in some money. Now they say things long kept secret. |
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