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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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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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Papa Panov's Special Christmas by James Potter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Narrator, 9 other on-stage characters (with three easily doubled) and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short festive play. Based on Leo Tolstoy's story, itself an adaptation of the traditional tale Old Pierre's Christmas Visitors. |
Synopsis | The lonely old shoemaker Papa Panov dreams that he will be visited by Jesus on Christmas Day. Throughout the day, a series of strangers arrive at his door, and Papa Panov helps them with their problems. He realises that Jesus did come after all, in everyone he welcomed. |
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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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Potted Pride & Prejudice by Nadya Henwood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Written for a cast of 4 playing 14 roles (with one of the men playing the older female roles). |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production (with a cast of 4) ran between 45 and 50 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, designed to be performed in a simple set (just furniture brought on by the cast). Essentially a drama, but with comedy, not least from the casting. |
Synopsis | Mrs Bennet is keen to find husbands for her four daughters, especially when the wealthy Mr Bingley moves into the area. Elizabeth instantly dislikes the snobbish Darcy, and Lydia runs off with the charming Wickham, but not everyone is how they first seem. |
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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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