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Gerri And The Atrics by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One offstage voice, M or F |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy. |
Synopsis | A group of entertainers nearing the end of their career prepare for yet another show, with friendly but sometimes barbed banter. This is interrupted not only by the call to go on stage, but the sudden death of one of their number. |
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Getting It Right by Roger Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 124 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama, aimed at adult audiences, on a full stage set - with practical doors. |
Synopsis | Chris and Di have been together for some time, and are getting by - on Di's salon and Chris's small removals business, but they've never hosted both sets of parents. Di thinks now is the time. In fact, there's a lot she's thinking about that Chris hasn't considered... |
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Gold! by Kate Stafford |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing). |
Synopsis | Julie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them. |
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Heedless Spirits by Jenny Gilbert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are older teenagers or young adults. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for teenagers. Single, simple set, few props. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Six young people in a cinema, waiting for a film to start. Two were once an item and are trying to ignore each other. Two are attracted to each other, to the disdain of their friends. Two aren't sure why they're there. |
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A Human Write by Amelia Armande Best Seller Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus. Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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An Inn Keeper's Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
Synopsis | An Innkeeper relates the strange events surrounding a local crucifixion. Various members of the Easter Story drop in to give their view of the events. |
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Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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The Invitation by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. In theory there are four sets (three individual locations and a composite), but it's actually stageable in a single set with changes of lighting and props. |
Synopsis | Eve is working hard on her wedding plans, which seem to involve doing everything her mother wants, regardless of how Eve feels about it. Eventually Eve's creativity takes over and the plans change in rather surprising ways. |
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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