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| Imperfect Speakers by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Gibson is written male but could, conceivably, be female. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play - something of a political thriller. Simple set - the interpreters' booth at an international conference - which could even, at a pinch, be played front-of-curtain (though it requires a few small desks). Includes swearing. |
| Synopsis | Andy and Nigel are two old school friends reunited whilst translating at an international environmental summit. Nigel has always been a rabble-rouser but Andy and Ingrid, a German translator with a teddy bear, both realize that his responsibility as a diplomatic translator and his interest in politics overlap a little too keenly. |
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| Indian Summer by Richard James |
| 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 | One-act play, single set. A brief romance set against the background of the Indian Mutiny. |
| Synopsis | Amid the uprising against the East India Company in the 1850s, Clara has commissioned a portrait - to closely resemble Botticelli's 'Birth Of Venus', but depicting her as an old woman. The Artist, Nathanial, arrives with his canvas and oils, and they share the last moments of an Indian Summer together. |
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| An Inn Keeper's Tale by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
| Synopsis | An Innkeeper relates the strange events surrounding a local crucifixion. Various members of the Easter Story drop in to give their view of the events. |
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| The Innkeeper and the Donkey Man by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play from a New Testament parable, relying on minimum props and no scenery, so could be performed instead of a sermon or as a precursor to a discussion. |
| Synopsis | The story of the Good Samaritan told from the point of view of the man who owns the inn where the Samaritan brings the robbery victim. |
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| The Innkeeper's Christmas by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
| Synopsis | An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
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| The Interview Protocol by Pat Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with two simple, waiting room and office, settings. |
| Synopsis | A young man nervously waits to be called into the interview room. The odd atmosphere between the waiting candidates unnerves him further, and his experience during the interview is something he has never encountered before. |
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Jamie Freel's Halloween by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 'Fairies' may be played by m or f, or a combination. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of an Irish folk tale, with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | In this adaptation the wicked fairies kidnap Gracie, to imprison her in the castle. Jamie intervenes, and as a ransom Gracie is struck deaf and dumb. With a little magic and many travails, Jamie is at last able to re-unite Gracie with her parents. |
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| Jason and the Golden Fleece by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Chorus includes various mythical creatures! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short epic(!) told in verse. Ancient Greek myth as a rhyming play for children. No set requirements, no props specified (though many might be used in a particular production). |
| Synopsis | The myth of Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. A tale of heroes, kings, goddesses, sirens, harpies and the occasional shipwright. |
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