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Anglo-Saxon Assembly by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 96. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, summarising Anglo-Saxon civilisation and myth! Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 1/2 topic 6B on settlers in Britain. |
Synopsis | A variety of characters from History and Mythology appear on the stage for the entertainment and education of the audience, occasionally with musical accompaniment. |
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Armed Robbery For Dummies by Paul R. Roman Performance by One Shot Theatre won the Adjudicator's shield at the Warwickshire One Act Plays festival 2010 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three live characters and a corpse. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play with a single set and very black humour. |
Synopsis | Frank needs a change and thinks armed robbery is the way to go. He consults with his recently paroled friend, but the first attempt goes wrong and he ends up with a dead neighbour on his hands. So he needs to get some quick lessons in body disposal... |
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The Assignment by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute drama. Single set (a hotel room, ideally with a practical door). |
Synopsis | Jeanette and Charlotte are both contract killers thinking of leaving the game. Trouble is, they've been assigned to kill each other. Is there some sinister reason behind their meeting? |
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At the Gates of Valhalla by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception desk and three chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A group of Vikings arrive on the threshold of the afterlife, expecting quaffing and carousing and more enjoyment than they get from a single Valkyrie with a clipboard... |
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The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party) |
Synopsis | A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him? |
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Attagirls by Emma Wise |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama. Single set (it's actually set in a very specific location, but really the requirements for set are negligible). |
Synopsis | Through monologues and dialogue, British pilot Ann and American engineer Lillian address what life was like for the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary - or the 'Attagirls' - during World War II. |
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The Attic Room by Elizabeth Anne Wells |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a single set, an attic in WWII-era Vienna. |
Synopsis | Hanna, a young Jewish girl, hides from the Nazis in the house of an Austrian family. When soldiers begin to search the street, the family rush to decide what is right and wrong. |
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Baboushka by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. |
Synopsis | Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. |
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Bad Flatitude by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Intended to be produced with one male actor playing four characters and one female actor doing the same. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short for teens with some dirty humour and a simple (living room) set. |
Synopsis | As another flatmate leaves in a dramatic fashion, the remaining group gloomily discuss the weirdos they’ve had to put up with and wonder who’ll be next. But they haven’t considered their landlord’s plans. |
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Badly Drawn by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. There are two on-stage speaking characters, two offstage voices and four masked cartoon characters - products of the cartoonists imagination! |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, intreguing, one-act play, dealing with events of a psychological nature. Single, minimal set. |
Synopsis | Spectre has taken Saskia. Where and why, she can't be sure. As he recounts his tale of shattered dreams, stolen ideas and cursed cartoons, Saskia begins to realise the lines that he draws run parallel to her own and soon both are on a collision course to meltdown. |
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