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| Spoofing For Gordon by Duncan Battman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, with two simple settings and some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Ten years ago, a group of friends entered an agreement binding them all to assisted suicide in the event that any of them became terminally ill. Gordon is now in that position, and the friends gather at his house and agonise over their pact. |
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| Still Life by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two teenage lads. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Simple (street) setting. Contains swearing (and poignancy.) |
| Synopsis | A moving, thought provoking one act play with a modern tale of two social misfits coming together and each, in their own way supporting the other. Jenny is lonely and frightened having had no social contact since her childhood, not having left the house she shares with her abusive father for over twenty years. She has suffered a final trauma at home and in her despair wanders the streets where she encounters Keith, a bitter unemployed alcoholic trying to eke a living as a street entertainer. As an uplifting, at first reluctant, relationship develops between them an optimistic chink throws light on their despondency. |
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| Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 sketch, set in a school headteacher's office.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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A Time for Farewells by Damian Trasler
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2003 & (amongst other things) the Buckhaven Trophy [Best Moment of Theatre] SCDA festival 2008. |
| 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 | Serious, touching play. One act, one simple set. [Includes mild swearing] |
| Synopsis | As they dress for a social event that will mark the end of their married life together, Sarah and Alex review their relationship to find out what brought them to this point. |
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Tiny House by John Passadino
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Bernice is (male to female) transgender. How you cast this depends on your company. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act in a single split-level set.. A comedy drama with a surreal edge. US English. |
| Synopsis | Three old friends are trying to get their lives back on track by returning to their days of sharing a house - in this case, a tiny house in the wilds of New York State. But lots of things have changed and the house is very tiny. |
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| Tramp Business by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 sketch on a simple park bench set. |
| Synopsis | Whatever way of making money is good for Alan, a cunning tramp who wants to sell bench tickets to everyone else sleeping in the park. His unusual business, however, doesn’t keep him from expressing sympathy and concern for his fellows during their ongoing and miserable wanderings. |
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| Transfusion by Daniel Taylor-Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama - adult themes, with various settings - compound set suitable. |
| Synopsis | Terminally ill Carol is being cared for at home by her trainee-nurse son, Ben. Their very close relationship stands up to the stresses and strains involved and they are also able to help Ben's boyfriend Max deal with his homophobic parents. Ultimately Ben has to take drastic steps to give Carol an optimistic future. |
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| Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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Wilfred and Len by Stephen Mercer
Winner Cheltenham One Act Festival 2006 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, with a single (railway station platform) setting. |
| Synopsis | It is November 1918 and the Great War is about to end. A young soldier waiting for his train is joined by poet Major Wilfred Owen. They have a deep conversation about their army experiences and the war, but all is not as it seems... |
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