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Tricksilver by Rob Burbidge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play based on a story by O. Henry - a tale of trickery and double-crossing. Two sets (or one composite set) plus front-of-curtain scene at a railway station. |
Synopsis | As the twentieth century dawns, the United States of America is the land of opportunity. There are plenty of ways to make a quick buck, but the quickest and biggest bucks are made by the scam artists. Having a conscience is a bit of a handicap for confidence trickster Jeff Peters. He decides against the advice of his business partner to include a real woman in his marriage agency scam. Will he find out that women are the honest sex, or will he discover that a woman can be the equal of a man in dishonesty? Will he break the habit of a lifetime, and trust a bank? In this tale of cross and double-cross, who gets the loot? |
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Two For The Price Of One by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (kitchen-dining room) setting. |
Synopsis | Sarah is beginning to worry that her lorry-driver husband has a fancy woman in Coventry. Their daughter thinks 'augmentation' will help her keep a boyfriend, and Sarah wonders if it'll help her too. |
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Ulysses and the Dogman by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Single set (figurative New York street scene, 1910). |
Synopsis | A Westerner visits New York to look up an old friend - and finds him regretting the enforced changes of marriage and city life, such as his duty to walk the dog... |
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Up, Up and Away by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. In addition to the four on-stage characters, there are five off-stage voices. Three male, two female. (These might be recorded but some sections would probably be better live.) |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with drama, emotion and humour. Contains mild swearing. Multiple locations, but achieved by lighting and a few props. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | It all starts with the funeral - although to the grieving widows, Elsie and Mary, this seems a bit final. But, from their new vantage point, James and Clifford find that they are able to look down, as well as look back. However, it's looking forward that gives them the most concern... |
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Wedding Party by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four adults (to be played by adults or teenagers). |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | An upper class couple are free with their opinions and distain at a friends' wedding and end up embarrassing themselves with their assumptions. |
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Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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Work in Progress by Damian Trasler Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2000, and Winner of the Adjudicator's Award, Anglesey Drama Festival 2005. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set, argument amongst Film Noir characters and their writer! |
Synopsis | An author struggles to complete a book, contending with his publishing deadline and a group of characters determined to assert their identity. |
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Zing Zang by Lynn Snyder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama of a mid-life (and mid-air) crisis. Plenty of scope for character acting. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Eli is turning fifty, and he's more than a little set in his ways. His oldest friend Sam tries to shake him up a little, see the joy in life, but it's not until a chance meeting with Claire on an aeroplane that Eli discovers who he is... and who he could be. |
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