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| The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
| Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage.
An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Adrian Jarvis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Four thousand-year-old Sumerian epic brought to life. This play skilfully combines dance, mime and music with challenging acting and technical opportunities together with a gripping story, ideal for Secondary Schools, Drama Acadamies, and Youth Groups. |
| Synopsis | King Gilgamesh is convinced that he can find the secret of eternal life and his dramatic odyssey is brought to life as he wanders the mythological world in his quest for immortality. We travel with him as his travails become ever more arduous and he becmes embroiled in ever more dramatic conflicts. |
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| An Evening to Forget by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The 'Boss coming to dinner' trope is one that has been used for years, but this script succeeds in taking it in a new direction in spectacular fashion with elements of light comedy, farce and thriller. |
| Synopsis | Olivia is worried, because her boss is coming to dinner and it’s very short notice. And he’s bringing a companion. And it’s a very important dinner. But when things really go wrong, it’s not any of the issues she was imagining. |
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| Everybody's Talking by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. Some scripts require offstage voices which could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of comedy sketches, with a variety of simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A collection of confrontations, revelations, and scenes of a gossipy nature. |
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A Fete Worse Than Death by Richard James
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comic murder mystery. (The comedy comes from situation and character. The murder mystery is handled seriously.) Single simple set - a marquee at a village fete! Contains a small amount of mild swearing. (And a murder.) |
| Synopsis | Actor Ray Martin is opening the village fete, playing on his fame as TV's Inspector Brady. Little does he know that ambition, infidelity and marrow envy will lead to murder, and he'll be left to solve the murder - without a script! |
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Finding Goddard by Deborah Hugill
Performance by Ury Players won the Gallery Trophy in the Aberdeen District of the SCDA one-act play festival 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 11 minor roles can be easily shared by two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a variety of locations but minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | When it turns out a modest, unassuming man in Helions Bumpstead is really God, everyone has an angle and everyone wants in. But soon enough, people affected by 'Acts of God' want their day in court. |
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| Fleas Can Bite by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dry comedy, on the boundary between a long one-act play, and a short full-length one. (It's in two acts.) |
| Synopsis | A saga of unrequited love, insanity and blackmail, populated by a strange collection of patients, professionals and friends. |
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| The Food Rationing Auction by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. As written, there is a non-speaking (though possibly giggling and nudging) chorus of ladies (who, in the absence of sufficient ladies, might be played by men in drag). |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | War time rationing leads to an unusual auction! |
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| For Your Tomorrow by Peter Ayre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there are nine characters, doubling of three is invited (for example, the young Albert Parker is intended to be played by the actor who plays David, the older Albert's son.) |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Two domestic sets (in the original production this was one box set, with the location change was achieved by using an upstage curtain to conceal or reveal additional set details). Contains a little swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert is getting old and forgetful, so he's moving in with son and daughter-in-law. His presence and decline add to the problems they're already having with their son. But the play also shows how Albert lived as a young man and husband, and tells of some of the experiences that made him who he was - in particular a little-known second world war campaign that marked a turning-point in the war with Japan. |
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| Gallery by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Structurally a two-act play (but classified as a one-act on the grounds of length), single art gallery setting, satirising thepretentions of the commercial fine arts world. |
| Synopsis | An unscrupulous Art Dealer has a young artist foisted on him by a work programme, but soon turns the situation to his advantage when a misunderstanding makes the artist an overnight sensation. |
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