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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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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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Me And You by Tony Domaille Journeyman Theatre Productions - Best Director, Best actor, Best actress and Best Supporting actor, Avon Short Play Festival 2020 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama. Part II of the author's Changes trilogy. |
Synopsis | Phil and his mates have bungled a robbery and he and his friend, Mikey, have run to the only safe place they can think of: The 'Me & You Café', owned by Phil’s daughter. Whilst they wait to see if the police are on to them, Phil and his daughter find themselves exploring how it all came to this, and whether their relationship can withstand past and present pressures. |
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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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The Mixer by Glyn Blakeborough |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The two main characters are of retirement age, but by no means decrepit! Two of the characters are voices on the phone, so could, conceivably, be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set (in theory a domestic kitchen, but could easily be done in a 'black box' presentation). Walks a careful line of bittersweet tragic-comedy. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Peter and Edna have been waiting for three weeks for their bins to be emptied. Peter helps old Mrs Thorburn by putting her rubbish into the correct bins for collection, but it turns out he's been getting it wrong, and Mrs Thorburn is under threat of legal action... |
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Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 simple one act play. |
Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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My Sister, The Thief by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two characters are written as female but can be played as male - this would of course require a change in title, which the author is happy for you to do. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play ideal for teenage performers, with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Ally has always looked up to her big sister, Tee, the hockey star, the brightest pupil, so generous with gifts. But now she’s discovered that Tee has been stealing those presents, not buying them. |
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The Nearly New Sale by Paul Townsend |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act psychological Faustian drama with a single (village hall) setting. |
Synopsis | After two long and painful years recovering from the death of their unborn child, Harry and Liz are presented with the opportunity to reverse their misery and grief. They need only sign it away to a dealer prepared to buy anything. With this prospect, however, comes the chance to correct more than just those few short years, as they realise that they can negotiate for better lives independently than they might have together. |
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