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Cut it Out by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. It is intended that one of the three actors plays multiple roles. The play could be performed by one adult and two teenagers, or by three teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, dealing with self-harm. Minimal set requirments. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Claire has been a self-harmer since the death of her twin sister. Why does she feel guilty, and why does her mother feel guilty too? Why can't they connect over this common bond? A gritty, emotional character piece. |
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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. The play can be acted by an all-male group, an all-female group or a mixed cast. The ensemble roles can be played by a minimum of five but can be expanded to suit the size of the group. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act (by length) modern language adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for young actors, containing all the witchcraft, ghosts and gore you'd expect. (Read the script to see if the level of violence is appropriate to your actors.) |
Synopsis | The Ghost of Macbeth comments on the action and charts the progress of his rise to the Scottish kingship and his downfall. |
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Dance Story by Frank Gibbons Shortlisted in the SCDA Play on Words competition 2011. Performance by Cardigan Theatre won the 'best actress' award at the Pembrokeshire one-act festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The announcer is written male (and sounds male, but need not be). PJs group of dancers are assumed female, but need not be. There are four of them but there could be more or fewer. Two parts written adult, the rest are of high school age. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Not a musical (in the sense that it does not include songs), but the backdrop is rival dance troupes, so dance could be a major element. |
Synopsis | The Dragon Belles dance team are through to the finals of the competition, but one of the members is too ill to dance. In fact, she has a heart condition that can only be cured at a hospital in Canada. Now they need the prize money to send her there, but will her replacement be good enough? |
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A Darker Shade Of Closure by Richard Charles Finalist 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 = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characers plus (probably recorded) radio voice. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller, single (apartment) set. |
Synopsis | Tina is in a tight spot, blackmailed over drug use that could make her ill father worse if revealed. Perhaps her friend Karen can really help her, by getting evidence of the blackmail? But Karen brings a gun too, and everything goes wrong. |
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Darra's Coffin [One-Act Version] by Roger Woodcock Won the Audience Appreciation award, Best Overall Production award and best actor award at the 2017 Teignmouth Drama Festival of One Act Plays performed by the teignmouth touring theatre company. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play in a funereal shade of black! Single set. |
Synopsis | The proprietor of a traditional undertaker's has died and his carpenters are discussing their future. Will his maneater of a wife keep the business on, or sell them out? When she arrives, things get a little out of hand, and desperate measures are called for. |
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Death in Character by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play. |
Synopsis | The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim. |
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The Delphi Dilemma by Jonathan Caldicot |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage cast, set at an archaeological dig in Greece. |
Synopsis | A school party have been set a discovery quiz on their educational trip to Greece. All goes smoothly, if a little competitively, until a schoolboy prank goes badly wrong. |
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Detention by Donna Brightwell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One character should be older than the rest of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage actors, with a divided stage set. |
Synopsis | There's been a minor fire in the school Science Lab, and now a group of students find themselves in Detention Hall - until the Principal has spoken to them all and discovered who is behind it. They learn more about each other than the fire. |
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The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The voice of God could be a recording (as it so often is). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play (adapted from 'The Diary of Adam Eve' by Mark Twain. Single set (representing the Garden of Eden and what lay beyond), simple props. |
Synopsis | Alone in the Garden of Eden, Adam is bored and, though he doesn't realise it, lonely. Of course, God has the answer... What follows is told through the diaries of those involved. |
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Disconnected by Paul L. Harwood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Several characters appear as (old) adults and their youthful selves. This is open to being done by two actors or by one acting different ages. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set which morphs into different locations. An exploration of time, decisions and consequences. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Bernie is an old man, but he's haunted by the consequences of a promise he made to his childhood friend Joe, who died in World War Two. Now Bernie is reliving important moments of his life - could he really be about to undo the most disastrous decision he ever made? |
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