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A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) |
Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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Love Hurts by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama with a surreal edge. |
Synopsis | Tommy is sneaking away to see the circus, but unfortunately catches the same bus as his mum. She's got secret plans of her own, while Tommy meets a female clown he hopes will become his girlfriend. They both learn that love hurts. |
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The Magic Apple Tree by Brian Coyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a compound (living room/city street) set. Adult themes, strong language. |
Synopsis | Nadia’s brother has gone missing in London and can hardly speak a word of English. He appears to be a lost soul, but who are the real lost souls in the city? A magical tale about how when you leave your home and move to a foreign country, you don’t leave what’s happened to you behind. |
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Mary Anning: Lost in Time by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama. Structurally in two acts, but on the boundary between one-act and two-act length. Dorset rocks. |
Synopsis | Nineteenth-century palaeontologist Mary Anning is dying of breast cancer. Under the care of a local woman, she takes laudanum for pain relief, which induces hallucinations that cause her to reflect on her past and her struggle to make a name for herself in a man’s world. |
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Messengers by Clay Space |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for youth age performers, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A demanding and emotional piece of drama. Years of blame and abuse have brought Brian to the point of taking his own life. As the garage fills with car exhaust, he is visited by figures from his life who force him to consider his choices. |
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Mirror Image by Julia Lee Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus the off-stage voice of a stage-hand. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single dressing-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A young actor finds an unexpected and disturbing visitor in his dressing room after a triumphal last night performance. |
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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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Mondo Pizzicato by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Professor Paderofsky is written male, but could be played male or female. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act farce. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Jimmy is relying on his brother Danny for financial support while he finishes his musical degree. Danny thinks he should marry Peggy, the girl who does their cleaning, but doesn't know that Jimmy and Peggy had a one night stand last week. Danny also doesn't know that their gay friend Freddy fancies him. All these secrets collide on the same day. |
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More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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