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Falling Apart by Peter Harrison
2007. Sale One-Act play festival. Joint winner for Best Original Play under original title of The Lift. Production by Altrincham Garrick. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is an off-stage voice, but since he converses with the other characters it is assumed that this should be done live. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single very simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Upon leaving their solicitor's office having arranged their divorce settlement Amanda and Andrew find themselves trapped between floors in the lift. The recriminations around their marital problems continue until the arrival of the lift attendant who manages not only to repair the lift but also their marriage, even though he is not all that he seems. |
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Family History by Deborah Hugill
A performance by Allerton Players won the David Crumpton Memorial Cup at the Nidderdale Deams Festival in 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two actors converying multiple characters. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Minimal set with changes conveyed by lighting. Lots of good challenges for the actors. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
| Synopsis | Grace is finally opening up to her partner Joe about her family. This begins with with the totally unexpected revelation that her father died more than a year previously. Joe struggles to understand Grace's past relationship with her family, and to help her see the future they could have together. |
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| Family Vacation by Brooklyn Fredrickson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. The roles are a mix of adults and children, but the style would suit a school or large youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single (tropical beach) set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Stan has taken his family on an exotic vacation, but his daughter is heartbroken, his son is petrified of sharks, and his wife won’t stick to the itinerary. The whole family have to learn to relax, or they’ll need another vacation. |
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| Far Away and Long Ago by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotional script with well-written dialogue that allows exploration of issues such as PTSD and family relationships without becoming overly sentimental. Good, thoughtful representation of deafness. |
| Synopsis | Harry, a homeless and deaf war veteran, intervenes when he sees Val being mugged at the bus stop. Harry is injured and so Val invites him home. But the arguments between Val's family cause great stress to Harry, which is worsened when Harry meets teenage Katie's new boyfriend. |
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Father's Day by Allan Williams
Awarded the Crawshay Cup for best original script at the 2011 All Wales Finals. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Old soldier Harris is being cared for by daughter Alice, who is concerned about leaving him alone as she goes on a much needed holiday. Harris is confronted by a young visitor - Jamie, who is intent on robbing him, but soon finds he is up against a doughty old soldier. |
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| Fear is a Reaction, Courage is a Decision by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. The interesting, unconventional set-up of the collapsed shop allows for a different way into the theme of abusive relationships. Could make a powerful festival piece. |
| Synopsis | When the roof of a camping shop collapses, the customers and staff are trapped among the rubble, injured and in darkness. It falls to panic-stricken but uninjured Donna to care for the others, but her selfish boyfriend Jason just wants her to care for him. |
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| Ferndale's Folly by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (drawing room) setting. |
| Synopsis | In this crime caper, set between the wars, Inspector Swann is investigating the theft of Lady Ferndale's jewellery with the help of Constable Wilkins. Unfortunately the Ferndale family are not quite as honest or genteel as they appear, but then neither is Inspector Swann. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Ferndale's Folly' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Fidelity Farce by Gary Diamond
Production by Pontfaen YFC won the Brecknock round of the Wales YFC drama competition 2020. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act bedroom farce. (Lots of doors, that sort of thing.) |
| Synopsis | Successful businessman Vincent Donaldson has booked a hotel room - the scene of a fling with his PA. But he hasn't counted on the appearance of his wife, her sister (with whom he is also having an affair), and another woman from his past. Not to mention the room-service man... |
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| A Fifty-Minute Alchemist by Ben Jonson adapted by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adaptation of Ben Jonson's comedy. Whilst the text uses mostly Jonson's language, this is an adaptation, not an abridgement, hence both script and performances are subject to copyright licensing. |
| Synopsis | Three con-artists set up a series of swindles starting with the pretext of an alchemist who can create charms and turn base metal into gold. Things start to go wrong when too many of their customers arrive at once, and the result is the 17th century equivalent of a multi-door farce, with a different problem lurking behind each door and needing to be kept hidden from the others. |
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| A Fifty-Minute Cymbeline by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Thre are 29 speaking roles (with considerable doubling possible), plus a non-speaking chorus with plenty of roles on offer! |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Posthumus Leonatus has married Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline, the King of Britain, without permission. That gets Posthumus banished, leaving Imogen behind. Meanwhile, the King's second wife is trying to engineer her son's route to the throne. An Italian braggart causes a rift between Posthumus and Imogen, and with Cybeline's court in disarray, the Romans mount an invasion. How then can the kingdom be saved? |
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