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Nightwalking by Frank Canino Won third place in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (international play-writing competition) 2014 |
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!] This is right at the lower time limit for one-act play festivals, but a brilliant festival piece. |
Music | None. |
Style | Chamber theatre piece - black-box set, with a stepladder as the sole piece of furniture. The actors communicate through interior monologues and movement. |
Synopsis | A young wife discovers that her husband is going out at night, when he thinks she is asleep. What should she do? What will she find if she follows him? What will become of their relationship if she follows him or if she does not? |
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The Nobodies by Jon Boustead |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Additional or fewer voices may be used to adapt to a desired cast size. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for primary (junior) school children with simple settings. |
Synopsis | In Nobody Land there are no stories, no reading, no dreaming, no nothing! In a manner reminiscent of the Thought Police, the Voices make sure that the rules are enforced. In the end the Storytellers prevail and The Nobodies at last become Somebodies. |
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Nothing Is What It Seems by Martyn Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark, dramatic monologue, and a challenge for an actor. |
Synopsis | He looks like a rough sleeper, but the man on the bench warns the audience not to make assumptions. He could be a police officer, working undercover. Or his story could be much darker and more tragic. |
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On A Street Corner by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are 'Man, Boy and Girl' with an implication of relative ages, but not absolute ages! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (representing a street corner, but no real set requirements). |
Synopsis | Street corner preaching meets the Da Vinci code in a brief examination of religious truth and meaning. |
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One, Two... One by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 short one act drama |
Synopsis | Two homeless people are sleeping rough in an alleyway. They pass the time in conversation which becomes ever more intimate and emotional. Their relationship comes to an abrupt end when the immense value of their meagre possessions is brought to life. |
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Opening Doors by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Youth theatre drama played on an empty stage with one prop (a free standing door). An ensemble piece, with cast members taking multiple roles. |
Synopsis | As the doorkeepers open the door we experience cradle to grave aspects of the characters' lives. |
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The Other Side by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for youth theatre, a story, but with a strong moral core. |
Synopsis | Ruth is visiting an Art Gallery as part of the school field trip, when she sees a picture of a cabin that looks familiar. She falls into the painting and meets Narg, who takes her back to something she doesn't want to remember. |
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Out Of Print by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short two-hander drama with a simple living room set. |
Synopsis | Erica Brightman was once a famous children’s author, and her books, The Adventures of the Lucky Sevens, once graced library shelves across the country. Now that her books are out of print, she is shown the door by suspicious librarians, and takes sanctuary with her imaginary young listeners. But all is not lost. Her last surviving fan, Colin Chadwell, is busy writing her a letter that she will never forget. |
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Parallelodram by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play providing acting challenges and philosophical insight! |
Synopsis | The stage is divided into two parallel universes, the left reflecting the right. On both sides, four students discuss multiverse theory and, through a series of minor choices and actions, the two universes gradually diverge, affecting the relationship of mathemetician Rainier and his girlfriend Anna. |
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The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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