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The Victory of the Revolution by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Seven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The Cuban revolution, reviewed through Fidel Castro's 1966 chess match against the Mexican master Filiberto Terrazas. |
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Villains by Shari Gledhill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 15-minute drama on a single office set. A good, easy to stage, two-person play with the shifts in power dynamic providing some good material for the two actors to work with. |
Synopsis | Hardened criminal Reid is summoned to the office of prison governor Dawson. Dawson intends to blackmail Reid into assisting him with a personal problem, but Reid is not so easily coerced. |
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Voice of a Flea by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | The fifth in Gill Medway's series of monologues about cleaning lady, Violet Brimley. Minimal set (a chair). |
Synopsis | Violet's latest job finds her at the house of a celebrated actor, whose chances of a prestigious TV award are in serious jeopardy when he appears to jump into some very hot water. Can Violet's famous tact and diplomacy save the day? |
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Watch Your Back by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Barlow is a male voice on a telephone speaker and might be doubled (or, possibly, recorded). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy. Single 1970s office set. |
Synopsis | This takes us back to a typical typing pool in 1972, where lecherous Head of the Accounts Department, Mr.Crawley, known as Creepy Crawley to the girls in the office, rules the roost. Supervisor Marjorie is frustrated in her attempts to shelter her girls, Gill and Sally, from his sexist antics until newcomer Helen presents her with a delicious opportunity to make sure that Mr. Crawley gets his just desserts. |
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Water Under The Bridge by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama play. |
Synopsis | Louis and Tony meet unexpectedly after a long separation. Time has passed, but it soon becomes clear that not enough water has flowed under the bridge, and some memories are still sharp enough to cause pain. |
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Welcome Home by Roger Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama, with a single setting and some strong language. |
Synopsis | Jimmy is finally out of prison, having served twenty years for murdering his wife's lover. He returns to his old house to face his son, where he expects and receives a hostile reception. |
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When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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Will's Women by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. Single set. |
Synopsis | Hard at work on his new tragedy about a certain Scotsman, Will Shakespeare is visited by four women from the play, and they're not at all happy with him. They have something to say about the violence and negative portrayal of women. |
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Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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