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The Acquisition by Henry P. Gravelle Accord Cine Fest July 2021 - Best Thriller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking roles and one non-speaking demonic arm. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act melodrama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Art collector Emory has acquired an ancient artefact of immense value and horrifying malevolence. He is eager for his niece Michelle to admire it, but she uses it as an instrument of revenge against her unfaithful husband |
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Aim by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
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All in the Past by Wendy Ash |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an offstage voice (belonging to an undertaker). |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act revenge drama, single set. |
Synopsis | Trevor suffered at the hands of bullies Jim and Mike at school. Now in his forties he contacts them again and wreaks his revenge. The catalyst for his plan is the death of his partner which adds a surprising and poignant finale. |
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Are You Watching Me? by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play - ostensibly a comedy, though with a dark twist ending that befits a thriller. |
Synopsis | Ali is close to giving birth, and desperate to leave the dingy apartment where she and her husband Jon are living until her mother’s house sells. All the while, there’s a man watching them from another block of flats. When Ali receives a disturbing text, Jon decides to confront the voyeur - it's at this point a dark secret is revealed. |
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The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party) |
Synopsis | A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him? |
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Baking Bread by Ashley Harris Best Seller Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama with a single (park bench) set. |
Synopsis | Bella is back at the bench by the lake, ready to feed the ducks. Before long John arrives and she can share the bread with him. But all is not as it seems, and soon Robin is there to tell Bella it's time to come home. It is a short, but emotive story. |
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Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are a six-year-old girl (who might be played by any age!), a bear, a lion and two off-stage voices. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A charming short play for an audience of children with five woodland scenes and a theme of friendship. (The script might be performed by kids or by adults or by a mix!) |
Synopsis | Young girl Shanni, separated from her bear hunter Daddy, is lost in the woods. She is befriended and cared for by Bear and a touching and deep friendship develops between the pair. [Our editor wished to stress that this script is not a reliable guide to the behaviour of ursines.] |
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The Board Meeting by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One traditional song is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy drama on a simple (meeting room) set. |
Synopsis | A group of imaginary friends from Layla’s childhood desperately try to come up with a plan to revive an adult Layla from a coma. |
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Brief Lives by Andrew Beattie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama for young actors. Traces of black comedy and strong language. Two simple settings. |
Synopsis | Two teenage boys are presented with a difficult situation when, arriving for his regular music lesson, one of them discovers the dead body of his elderly music teacher. |
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A Cabinet Meeting by Seán Lang |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters are written as elderly men, but can be played by actors of any gender. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A small historical backwater provides the backdrop for a moving, compelling drama. One-act play in a single setting (a dining room used for a formal meeting). |
Synopsis | The President of Poland and his cabinet fled to London after the Nazi occupation. Fifty years later, they are still living in exile, and holding regular meetings, despite having no control over what's going on in their homeland. Some of the ministers believe it is time to end it, but the senile President doesn’t want to move on. |
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