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| Speak Your Mind by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family drama (with comic moments). Single set. Structurally in two acts, but at 70 minutes, it offers the options of standing alone or being paired with a shorter piece. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Ever since her father died, Ruth has been concerned about her mother Mildred. Ruth's husband Richard has his worries too, as Ruth's reverence for her father's memory seems to cloud her judgment. An unexpected guest in the form of Richard's boss Harry turns a simple dinner party into a stage for confessions and accusations. |
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| The Spy On Ward Four by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a bit of an edge. Simple set - a hospital ward, though, unusually for that setting, the focus of the play is not sickness. |
| Synopsis | Oswald is in an Arkansas hospital, trying to recover from his heart operation, but they want to deep-clean his ward and everyone's been moved out except him. Then he becomes unwittingly privy to a plot by a nurse and her boyfriend to steal surplus supplies, and worse... His wife is looking for him! |
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| A Stitch In Time by Mark Green |
| 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 | A one act play with a split (lounge and garden) set. |
| Synopsis | Young Alastair's dad has died, and his mum and granddad are bringing him up, and sister Holly too. Much to the family's disdain, Alastair, inspired by his late father, is convinced that he has invented a time machine. |
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| Student Of The Year by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One male offstage voice, could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Proud parents are always sure their child is the best, but here the school secretary has a master card... |
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| Suite 145 by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There is no overlap between the characters in the four plays - which does not exclude the possibility that they are played by the same actors. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of 4 one-act plays, each with a single (New York apartment) setting. The plays function independently, so could be performed separately or together. Contains swearing (but only as an incidental attribute of character, situation and comedy). |
| Synopsis | Four plays, linked by the setting - Suite 145 - a New York apartment address (although it is not necessarily the same building!) The plays take place in different eras, with different occupants and certainly different tastes in decor! |
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| Take-Away by Pat Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two older teens and two middle-aged characters. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play of shorter length, split set - in two flats with a lift, set between them. |
| Synopsis | Gail and Josh share a flat, but their relationship has soured - Josh is harsh and demanding, and Gail is quiet and compliant. The Barnstables live in the flat across from them, an older couple with a happy marriage. But no one seems happy with the way things are between Josh and Gail - not even Josh. |
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| Talking in the Library by Jackie Carreira |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play with a single (library) setting. |
| Synopsis | The disparate group of regulars at the library along with the librarian and his assistant discover things about each other, and perhaps more importantly themselves and their relationships, over the course of a few weeks. |
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| Tea With Mrs Pankhurst by Ruth Urquhart & James Douglas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles). |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set. |
| Synopsis | The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage. |
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| Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
| Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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| Them by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the junior member of the main trio is nominally male, he's a juvenile bird, so the gender of the casting is entirely down to the actors you have available! Whilst there is no chorus, there is an option for a flock of juvenile birds! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, taking a birds-eye view of humanity. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A family of birds discuss the peculiar creatures on the ground below them before they set off on their migration. |
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