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Fight for the Future by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Pruitt is written female, gender reassignment should be possible in her case. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short science-fiction play about time travel. Bare stage and just one prop - a piece of paper. That's all. Thousands of years of technological innovation leading to just one piece of paper. (Give or take the time capsule.) |
Synopsis | The first ever time traveller journeys to the future and discovers a world very different to the one he imagined... |
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Final Motions by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.) |
Synopsis | Doctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure. |
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The Fire Pit by John Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One adult male, three teenagers with playing ages of around 14. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hard-hitting, thought- (and discussion-) provoking short play. |
Synopsis | Church elder Nigel takes his 14 year old daughter Jessica and two of her male friends on a weekend camping trip. Jessica doesn't want to share a tent with Nigel, and only one of her friends can spot the telltale signs of child abuse. |
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First Day In Drama Class by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A small class of students, a teacher and the Principal. (Could be played to age or could all be played by the members of a youth theatre group.) |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy for youth theatre with a single (classroom) setting. |
Synopsis | A new drama teacher attempting to establish a rapport with his students uses unorthodox methods which serve only to alienate them. Then the Principal arrives to reveal that all is not what it seems. |
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The Fisherman and his Wife by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script for three songs, three reprises and an instrumental. |
Style | Short one-act musical play for kids (or for adults to play to kids). No set requirements, minimal props. |
Synopsis | A humble fisherman reels in a talking flounder, who claims to be an enchanted princess. When he lets it go, the fisherman's wife insists he asks the flounder to repay its debt with a series of increasingly lavish rewards. Her ambition turns to greed and eventually the flounder princess returns to take her gifts back. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Five Days in May by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids, one of whom is confined to a wheelchair. Structured in five acts. In theory a number of locations, but these can be indicated with the minimum of set. |
Synopsis | When Sarah's disabled cousin Josh comes to stay with her, she introduces him to Billy, her would-be boyfriend. Josh is appreciative of Sarah's fussing concern for him but welcomes Billy's company and, much to Sarah's despair, the pair of them immediately form an unlikely bond. |
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Floor 13 by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, exploring character and motivation. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Four different characters are stranded on the thirteenth floor by an uncooperative lift. There are no stairs or other exits. How did they get here? Where should they go? |
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The Florist by Iris Winston Winner of the Ottawa Little Theatre national playwriting competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. Single set (florist's shop). |
Synopsis | George Bernard Shaw drops into a Flower shop run by a lady called Liza and they talk of her old friends, and the life she has led. |
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For The Greater Good by Aviva Philipp-Muller Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play. |
Synopsis | Charles and Jonah share their memories of a single day, a day they experienced in very different ways, though at the end they connected. A powerful piece about the Holocaust. |
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Forty-Two by Amanda Giles |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The voice of the App could be recorded or played live. The angels are written male, but since they are angels this scarcely matters. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play for a couple of pieces of furniture, four actors and the gentle voice of a phone app. (British English, using 'lounge' for 'living room' and including slang for a cigarette which might confuse speakers of other varieties of English.) |
Synopsis | Jemima has just woken up from her meditation cd session to find three strange men in her living room. Well, not men, they're angels, summoned by the cd she has just listened to. They have answers for Jemima, but she won’t like them... |
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