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The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors). |
Synopsis | After the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events. |
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The Loft by James Brosnahan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, with plenty of challenges for the actors! (Contains mild swearing.) |
Synopsis | An apartment building (the Loft of the title) is scheduled for demolition, and shares a few of the stories he has witnessed before the button is pressed. |
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Love by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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Macbeth [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Twenty-nine roles, but playable by a cast of ten. (The producer's copy of the script includes a table of roles per scene to help figure out the doubling options.) |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Scottish play. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Witchcraft, prophecies, hallucination, regicide, porterage, portents, usurpation, amicide, phantom at the feast, apparitions, equivocations, blood-boltered spectre, family massacre, somnambulation, suicide, tyrannicide, decapitation. All good clean fun. |
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Natterjack by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Rod is an off-stage voice and therefore might be doubled or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play - at its heart, a drama of practical politics, but leavened with plenty of comedy. |
Synopsis | A shed by a river has become home to a tramp. When he discovers that plans to build a bridge put his home under threat, he engages with politicians, engineers and a barrister. Chaos ensues, and a visit from the Minister for Transport spectacularly fails to improve the situation. |
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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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The Passion by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single set (a cart!), basic props. |
Synopsis | The betrayal, trial and crucifixion of Jesus. |
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The Pilgrim's Progress by Christopher Morgan Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props. |
Synopsis | A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven. |
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Potted Austen: Northanger Abbey by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. |
Synopsis | A short take on Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. Cast size can be reduced to six with some meticulous doubling! |
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