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Sleeping Off Hell by Carolyn Copeland |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute drama. Single set (hotel concierge desk - as simple as you like!), simple props. |
Synopsis | Four very different characters find they're stranded at the concierge desk of a hotel, with no one to give them their room keys. They begin to talk and discover they all have different reasons for wanting to stay there...or maybe it's the same reason after all. |
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award. Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.) |
Synopsis | Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny. |
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The Soldiers' Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
Synopsis | The events on Calvary discussed from the perspective of bystanders, including the soldiers who administered the crucifixion. |
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The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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Straight to the Top by Martin Sims |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The female role is voice only, |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy/drama in a single set which could be minimal. (The author makes staging suggestions in the Producer's Copy of the script.) |
Synopsis | Joseph is on his way to the top of the building to end his unlucky life. Fortunately, Michael takes the same elevator, slowing the journey in time for Joseph to achieve a different perspective on life. |
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The Stubborn Little Girl and the Spider's Web by Jon Boustead |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no explicit chorus, there is a lot of flexibility in the numbers of Witches and Shrieks. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for the junior ranks of a youth theatre, a mix of narration and action with no specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | Isobel, a stubborn and rather rude girl, learns the error of her ways through encounters with a magical woodpecker, a vampire, witches, a spider and the awesome Shrieks. |
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Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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Terminal 1 by Dave Payne |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute drama with a single (departure lounge) setting. |
Synopsis | George and Lynda's flight has been delayed, so far by 9 hours. George becomes more and more annoyed whilst Lynda is strangely calm and collected. Their love for each other shines through as the reason for their journey - and the play's title - becomes poignantly clear. |
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The Thing She Left Behind by Tracey Vanessa Brown |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play on a split set - a sick room in a castle and a Louisiana backroad. |
Synopsis | In Scotland, elderly Felicia lies dying, hoping to pass on her secret witchcraft to a younger relative. Her death is discussed by three other witches in Felicia’s home of Louisiana. |
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This Is A Lockdown by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama |
Synopsis | A group of students and their teacher are sorting costumes in a remote school building when a lockdown is announced over the tannoy. Is it a drill, or the real thing? And what will happen to the student who left the building? |
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