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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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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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The Necklace by Tony Best
Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts won best Youth Production and the Syd Mence cup for a piece of theatre magic at the Wilmslow Guild One Act play Festival, 2012 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. There are two main roles, and a 'chorus of voices' playing all the other roles, thus the numbers are very flexible. The chorus members play specific roles but also act as a 'Greek Chorus' to comment on the story. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on a short story (a moral fable) by Guy de Maupassant. Written for a youth theatre production but could be performed by adults. |
| Synopsis | Mathilde is a vain, proud woman, who regrets that the she has been born into the humbler classes. She longs to be an aristocrat. Given her chance to shine, she borrows a stunning necklace, but that is the start of her woes. |
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| Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
| Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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Red-Handed by Alan David Pritchard
WINNER, Miracle Makers International Film and Writing Festival, July 2021, Stage Play Category, Las Vegas, USA |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (school store room) set. |
| Synopsis | Four boys sneak into the storage area where the exam papers are filed, but one boy betrays the others and locks them in. The three incarcerated boys must face their own demons as well as their problems with each other. |
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| Sad Angel by Robert Foylan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in a park. |
| Synopsis | Grace is walking in the park, preparing herself for a dramatic moment in her life, when she meets a sad-looking man. He seems to know a lot about her and her life, but could he really be her guardian angel? |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles [Version 3] by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. There are 18 roles (including a puppet hound), but they are playable by a cast of 6. (The author gives options for casting 6, 7 or 8 actors.) |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with multiple settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects.
(US English spelling.) |
| Synopsis | As Watson investigates the curse of a supernatural beast out on the moors, Holmes confronts demons of his own back in London. |
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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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The Signalman by Matthew Harper
Production by Progressive Players won the Northern Semi-Final of the All England Theatre Festival - 2021 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, which could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian gothic drama in one act with a single (signal box) setting. |
| Synopsis | The thrilling Charles Dickens story is brought to life in this stage adaptation, as tension inexorably builds towards the signalman's fate. |
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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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