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Lucky Penny by Carol Kline |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The coach and robber are written male. Could, possibly, be female. Two of the characters - including the central character, Bench Man - are silent. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch with a single set - a park bench. |
Synopsis | A man sitting on a bench finds a penny at his feet. Picking it up, he suddenly finds himself the recipient of three doses of good fortune. See a penny... |
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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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Memories Of Tomorrow by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act fantasy, or time-shift, drama with simple settings. |
Synopsis | In his sick bed Peter hears some startling radio news of a high profile murder. Are subsequent events driven by his delirium, or has time actually shifted? |
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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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Mizmaze by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play - with some strong language. |
Synopsis | A short, spine-tingling play based on the legend surrounding the mysterious, three hundred year old maze at the top of St. Catherine's Hill, Winchester. |
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Monster by Peter Anthony Fields |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a single (kitchen) set. US English. |
Synopsis | After a horrific school shooting occurs in a small Midwestern town, a Protestant minister and her troubled brother grapple over how to come to terms with the senseless tragedy. |
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More by Ness Owen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama piece for three actors (and an offstage voice!) |
Synopsis | Three workers have drawn lots to decide on who will take on an unpleasant task. Now the unlucky one has been chosen, the other two try to bolster their confidence ahead of the other's venture. |
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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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Odd Ball by Steve Menary Perfomance by Berriew YFC won the Best Production (plus two other awards) in the NFYFC National Finals, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. It would be possible to double Scott with The Spot, but that would require rapid changes, so would need a lot of thought to go into the costumes. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play about a teenager with testicular cancer. Rapid alternation of scenes implies an outline set, rather than detail - thus suitable as a festival piece. Contains mild swearing and discussion of a serious subject! |
Synopsis | Danny is a football player on his school team, but he's got a secret - something like a spot in a very private place. It turns out to be a lot more serious than acne, and costs him his place on the team, and the friendship of his closest mate. Are they both gone forever? (The script is in British English, so 'football' refers to a game in which the ball is addressed principally by the players' feet.) |
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The Rector of Stiffkey by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Essentially, this is a courtroom drama set in the afterlife, with the audience cast as the jury! Minimal set and props. |
Synopsis | Harold Davidson has arrived in Limbo, and a lot depends on the nest few minutes - how he accounts for the extraordinary events of his life until his death by mauling will determine where he goes from here. Was he really immoral, or a modern-day saint treated badly by the church? This is the true story of Harold Davidson known in the 1930s as 'The Rector of Stiffkey'. His unfrocking by the Church of England was a cause celebre but he attained even greater notoriety by later preaching in a lion's den at a circus. |
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