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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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From Here to Maternity by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight principal characters and a slew of minor roles. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A witty and fast-paced full-length comedy with lots of fun characters. The makings of a very good evening's entertainment. |
Synopsis | Obstetrician Clare Mason and her colleague Cathy are on their way to a conference in Moscow, when they find themselves stuck in the dilapidated ex-Soviet state of Bolonia and recruited to supervise the pregnant wife of the President. Meanwhile, President Driblova is under UN pressure to hold an election, but plots to make it anything but democratic. |
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Ghosts at the Grange by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comic whodunnit. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | Lancelot and Guinevere are dead, and have been for a hundred years. They haunt Arthur's house, and are the only witnesses to his murder. But how can they let his family know who committed the foul deed? |
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The Guest House by P. B. Stenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage roles plus an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single bedroom set. An episodic structure (because all the guests can't occupy the same bedroom at the same time.) |
Synopsis | Clara and Will have bought the Guest House at Number 13, a new business venture for them. They find that there is a lot of on-the-job learning to do - for example, they have to decide what to do with the stash of old twenty pound notes in the hidden wall safe, not to mention the peculiar behaviour of their guests. |
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A Heart-Shaped Cushion by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The patients can be any age from about thirty-five to sixty-five. Beth and Tom should be about the same age. Doubling and trebling-up is possible with a minimum of one man and six women |
Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama following a patient's experience with breast cancer, through chemo and physiotherapy, to exiting the treatment. |
Synopsis | Along the way we meet people dealing with similar experiences. |
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The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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In The White Time by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] Structurally in one act, but could be performed as a full evening's entertainment. |
Music | None. |
Style | A Victorian historical drama, based on a true murder case |
Synopsis | As a young teenager Mary Wheeler had witnessed her father being convicted and hanged for murder. The trauma resulted in her having intermittent blackouts which she termed her ‘White Time’. Mary invites her lover's mistress Phoebe around one afternoon, leading to her disappearance. Mary is trialled for murder, and only a mysterious letter may reveal the truth of the case. |
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Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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Last Séance by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A slick farce with a single domestic set. (Nominally in the USA, but could work in any location.) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A family-operated séance scam is laid out before us. Attempts to conceal the swindle lead to a number of surprising twists amid frenetic action. The final startling twist of the play reveals to us - and the family - why this must be the last séance. |
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