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A Life Sentence by Mark Seaman
Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire,
Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two.
Overall Festival winner Cornwall Festival 2015.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions.
SynopsisA wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days.
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Like it or Not by George Freek
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy. Single set (hotel sitting room), which need not be elaborate.
SynopsisA young playwright waits to meet the star who may produce his play, but his fiancée wants in on the act. More than that, her father has planned a meeting with the actress, and it turns out her mother is going to have her own surprising encounter.
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Limbo by Julia Lee Dean
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Note that at a customer request, the author created a version of the play in which Agatha was replaced by an equivalent male role. If you want to do the play, but would prefer that version, please ask!
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play, with a single set which is somewhere between reality and the afterlife! A very enjoyable and touching play.
SynopsisMichael's day isn't going well. For one thing, he's just died. For another he's found he's got to share the afterlife with the lady who used to live in his house, and he can't leave it. Now he watches his wife move on without him.
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Little Acorns by Jenny Gilbert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults with a mix of ages. The ages are suggested in the production notes, but there is a great deal of flexibility.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play, single set.
SynopsisGentle comedy, set in a school staff room, where the staff try to work out their gripes, with a particular concern about one member of the school.
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A Little Elfin Magic by Donna Brightwell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups!
SynopsisIt's September and the Elves in Santa's toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy?
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A Little Extra Help by Jo West
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act romantic comedy.
SynopsisSupermarkets seem to be the place to meet prospective partners and this supermarket manager acts as a pro-active narrator as, after a few hiccups, romance blossoms.
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Little Momma’s Ristorante by Paul L. Harwood
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 22 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy in a single set. An enjoyably weird story which builds up entertainingly to a satisfying ending. (US English.)
SynopsisLeo has finally plucked up the courage to ask Kay to marry him, but first he must introduce her to - and get the approval of - his Momma. The problem is, Momma is a pile of ashes in a wine bottle, and when the bottle is unable to communicate approval, Kay must come up with a plan to convince Leo it’s okay.
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The Little Watch Girl by George Douglas Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children which could be played that way or could all be played by children.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Single set. Props include a rather under-cooked roast goose.
SynopsisA familiar Christmas story is given a major twist when a starving, freezing girl out on a snow Christmas Eve supplements her match selling income by stealing watches from passers by. She is visited by several visions to help her learn the true meaning of Christmas.
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ad. Gerald P. Murphy
A production by Vanguard College Prep School in 2017 came second in their district competition and picked up 4 acting awards at the Texas state competition.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, designed for simple staging.
SynopsisThe classic tale staged as a one act play. Jo dreams of being a writer, and Laurie dreams of Jo, but life has different plans for them. Jo travels to New York and meets a Professor before becoming an author, and Laurie travels in Europe and marries Jo's sister Amy.
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Lizzy's Ghost by Allan Williams
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voice of Lizzy could be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act ghost story, with a single (bar) setting.
SynopsisOn a working holiday researching a book, author Joanne finds herself in an isolated village pub on Halloween. The locals give her astounding background, for a gripping tale of the past, in which they are intimately involved.
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