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| Donegal Calling by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, five off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama in a single set (which needs only furniture). |
| Synopsis | Roisin and Johnny, strangers, are thrown together one evening in the busy foyer of a hotel. They share a bottle of wine and conversation brings out major events in their lives. Both had fallen in love - both relationships ended tragically, for very different reasons - but Donegal keeps calling them back. One year later in the same hotel, the same busy foyer, they meet again as friends. More information about past events comes to light - enough to clear the way to give them a future together? |
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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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| Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Episodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage). |
| Synopsis | It's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual. |
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| The Girls Are Back in Town by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One public domain song is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama set in both the present day and WW1. Seven different settings, though all can be portrayed with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | Four iconic suffragettes are mysteriously transported to modern-day London to finish what they started. 100 years earlier, as Alan learns the horrors of life on the Western Front, his girlfriend Beatrice carries out important work for the suffragettes. |
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| God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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A Human Write by Amelia Armande
Best Seller Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
| Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus.
Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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| Just Fifteen Minutes by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical drama with several simple scenes. |
| Synopsis | Just fifteen minutes is how long it takes someone to die from strychnine poisoning. It's this method by which Doctor Thomas Cream disposed of his victims. Cream goes from fresh McGill graduate to a cornered criminal in this recounting of the life of the notorious 'Lambeth Poisoner', whose crimes stretched from Montreal to Chicago and London. |
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| Lennon and Buddy by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on two (living room/backstage) sets. |
| Synopsis | Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform at the London Palladium, and in Liverpool, John Lennon sees the performance on a friend’s TV set. He boasts that his band will surpass Buddy Holly. |
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| Limbo Café by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 3 voices are offstage characters, and could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act satirical fantasy drama in a one act length, various settings. |
| Synopsis | Hard-headed Canadian businessman Michael and his currency-market speculator partner Joan, are killed in a car crash. In their attempts to vacate Limbo their lives are put on trial - by figures from history, to determine their future. They find that Hell has no limits. |
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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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