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Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens by Phil Porter (music Mary Harrison Hewett) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Two principals (Dickens and George Dolby), plus many other characters, real and from Dickens' writing, who might be played by a number of on-stage 'voices'. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production ran for one hour.) |
Music | Keyboard scores for 10 pieces of background music are provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Drama in a single simple set, designed to be accompanied by projected images (with the option for an on-stage pianist providing mood music). |
Synopsis | A dramatization of the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to wild success reading extracts from his novels on stage, and the terrible toll it took on him. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** CD with 40 images, 18 sound effects, 3 video clips and 10 pieces of musical accompaniment for 'Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens' by Phil Porter (Music by Mary Harrison Hewett)
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Something for the Weekend by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single-set one-act comedy set in the 1960s in a hairdressing salon. |
Synopsis | Charlie is desperately trying to breathe new life into his ailing hairdressing business. Much to the disgust of his stylists, Sharon and Maggie his solution is to use the vacant store room as a massage parlour. All goes well until an unfortunate incident brings the police to his door. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Something for the Weekend' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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The Spasm by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Flexible chorus size |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play in five short acts. |
Synopsis | Based loosely on the short story by Guy de Maupassant, the play explores manservant Prosper's journey to heaven, and his discovery that his heaven may become his hell. |
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Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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Stop the Clocks by Keith Badham Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Most Theatrical Moment and the Audience Appreciation Award at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011. Royal Manor Theatre won the adjudicators award at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 88. No chorus. The fifteen scripts have casts ranging from two to sixteen, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is seven. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Fifteen short scripts: Introduction (Nominally sixteen roles) Death Of Innocence (Seven roles) Back to school (Eight roles) The Interview (Five roles) Twins (Three roles) And Lo (Seven roles) Monster Mum (Two roles) The Quest For Happiness (Six roles) Punch and Judy (Three roles) Knife Crime Horror (Two roles) The Priory (Two roles) We Three (Part One) (Six roles) The Teachers Are Afraid... (Two roles) We Three (Part Two) (Six roles) Death (Thirteen roles) |
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Tabbed by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The script is about a group performing a British Pantomime, therefore Widow Twankey is intended to be played by a man, and Aladdin by a young woman. The chorus is optional (the chorus part could probably be doubled by a couple of the principals.) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy, set in the middle of a (disastrous) pantomime performance. |
Synopsis | It's Panto time again for the Witherington Over Mired Brook Amateur Theatrical Society (WOMBATS), but things aren't going well... Aladdin's had a nasty accident and had to be replaced at short notice, the script is illegible, the stage crew are in revolt and the lights and curtain aren't behaving themselves either. Can Widow Twankey hold things together? |
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The Talky Bits by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Many of the characters are written with a specific gender, but most can be changed! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of ten comedy sketches requiring little in the way of set or props (the most complex sketch requires a table, chairs and a few pieces of paper.) Most could be run front-of curtain. |
Synopsis | Ten comedy sketches with a theatrical theme, designed to be interspersed between other material in a drama and dance showcase. The sketches cover the theatrical process from pitching a show concept through to first night nerves. Most of the sketches are available individually. This collection is available at a discount to the sum of the individual prices. |
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Tete-A-Tete by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are offstage voices only and can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Much to his reluctance, Danny’s friends arrange a blind date for him. The date turns out to be his ex-wife Katrina. She brings shocking news for Danny, who has his own shock in store for her. The unseen neighbours become a catalyst for a re-union. |
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Three Little Words by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of eight short plays, loosely on the theme of love. Multiple settings, but simple sets requiring just furniture (and not much of that). |
Synopsis | Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. Ken and disillusioned Brian reminisce about life, comedy duos, and lost loves. Elderly Marjorie has lost interest and decided to spend her life in bed. Overbearing Rosie drops off daughter Florence at the start of her first Oxford term. Graham's ex-wife appears at his mother's funeral. Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. Despite Danni's encouragement, Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test. Malcolm hopes to appear at the wedding of his ex-girlfriend, but her sister has something to say about it. (Featuring returning characters from three previous scenes.) |
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A Train Ride Away by Frank Gibbons Performance by Aiken High won The Garcia Theater Project, North Augusta 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Characters are mainly adults with one young child. Could all be played by children. The chorus is optional, but there are several scenes where crowds would create atmosphere. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Intended to have figurative sets (possibly just lighting transitions), rather than realistic depictions of the locations. Props could be real or indicated by mime. Includes mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The story of a family of Hungarian Jews being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the holocaust of 1944. |
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