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The Tide is Coming In by Michael C. Appleby
Production by The Edinburgh Makars won First Prize (and the Edith Forbes Trophy) in the Scottish Community Drama Association's One Act Play Festival, Edinburgh, 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2m, 2F, but can be played by any combination with permissible tweaks to names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty one-act comedy with funny characters and plenty of action. Set on a beach, furnished with rocks and (not necessarily visibly) sand! |
| Synopsis | Angela gets stuck in quicksand while walking along the beach. Her friend Brian helpfully explains the physics of thixotropy, but can’t think of a way to get her out. Deirdre and Colin pass by and are recruited into the rescue, but are more interested in a nearby black-throated diver. |
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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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| Wait... What? by Ted Evans |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (male) characters appear on stage, one of them only briefly. Two male and two female characters appear on a video shown on the stage. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, almost a monologue, in the style of a disjointed presentation. Some educational content about Attention Deficit Disorder. Includes opportunities for improvisation. Contains mild swearing |
| Synopsis | An Attention Deficit Disorder sufferer talks about his experiences with a new wonder-drug and ADD in general, but ends up saying a little too much for the drug manufacturer's liking. |
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| You'll Suit Just Fine [One-Act Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single simple shop set. |
| Synopsis | Mr Green is working in his small, family-run menswear shop and training up his new employee, Kevin. Although Kevin has a good eye for fashion he has a lot to learn about social etiquette. How will Kevin deal with a disgruntled customer? |
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