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| Game - Love by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a simple single set and simple props. |
| Synopsis | Three couples meet one another at a speed-dating evening while the company moderator looks on. Two find they have at least enough in common to meet again, but the third pair find they have more in common than they want to share. |
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| The Generation Game by Alan J. Laing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) a mixture of children and their grandparents, intended to be played by a cast of children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script with positions for two others in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids with songs. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | A gang of oldies in a home refuse to grow old gracefully, to the delight of their grandchildren and the despair of the matron. |
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| Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
| Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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| The Gentlemen of the Press by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short humorous costume drama. Two simple sets. |
| Synopsis | During the Napoleonic wars, two junior officers are sent out to find men to fill the complement of their ship. One of them has other motives. |
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| Gerri And The Atrics by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One offstage voice, M or F |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy. |
| Synopsis | A group of entertainers nearing the end of their career prepare for yet another show, with friendly but sometimes barbed banter. This is interrupted not only by the call to go on stage, but the sudden death of one of their number. |
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| God's Messenger Department by Bill Siviter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Option for more animals to be added to the stable tableau.
One of the characters is a star. Well, they're all stars, but you know what I mean. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Irreverent approach to the nativity (the story is all there, but the perspective is unorthodox!). Likely to appeal to older children rather than the youngest element normally associated with such plays. |
| Synopsis | The Archangels are all relaxing in their common room when they get a call from the Boss... There are messages to be delivered, to Joseph, Mary and the three kings. Not to mention the shepherds in the fields too - Gabriel has to put down his Nintendo and get busy! |
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| Going Up? by Rosemary Frisino Toohey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Alex is written as female, but with changes to pronouns in speeches, may be portrayed as male. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun, quirky comedy. Very easily staged, with no set or props required. Could fit into sketch nights and the like.
American English, so it takes place in an elevator, not a lift. |
| Synopsis | It's morning in a busy office building when an elevator suddenly stops between floors. Four strangers learn more than they'd like to about each other. And the big question... is the stoppage a mechanical problem, or are hostile forces at work? |
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Gone by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in both Live Theatre's and Maskers Theatre Company's playwriting competitions in 2010. Didcot Phoenix Drama's filmed version won the Best Play and 2 other awards at the 2021 Spelthorne and Runnymede Virtual Drama Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play with an air of mystery! Single set which requires a garden seat and a half-finished pergola. Originally published 2010, revised 2018. |
| Synopsis | George's wife is missing. He knows where she went, but not where she is. Dare he tell the truth to anyone? |
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| Good Enough by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hard-hitting one act drama |
| Synopsis | Single mother Janine struggles desperately with severe lack of confidence brought about by the derogatory voices of her parents, ex-husband and son which she relives in her head. These voices are played out on stage. |
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| Good For Something by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both in their seventies |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, set in a center for the retired. |
| Synopsis | Lizzie and Max meet regularly for a game of checkers during which they come closer together and are able to confide in and advise each other. |
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