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All By Themselves by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy, nominally in two locations, but with no set requirements.
SynopsisStill marooned on an island after other shipwrecked souls took a raft (his raft!) and left, Larry curses the fact that he's still not alone. And that he let the raft go. But the raft didn't go as far as he thinks, and he's even less alone than he suspects.
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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille
Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleMulti-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting.
SynopsisMary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered.
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Checkmate by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play, with a simple set.
SynopsisA tense thriller. In this play a friendly game of chess between husband and wife becomes more of a game of cat and mouse. Michael likes to think he's always one move ahead, but perhaps this time Amy has him in check.
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Airfield by Bob Tucker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort one-act comedy play. Simple (minimal) staging.
SynopsisFred and Lucy seem to have stumbled onto a real fly-by-night outfit when they signed up with Young Yettie Airways to fly to Barcelona. No hospitality, no departure lounge, not even any seats, and now there are delays and they might have to fly via Dublin...or is there something else afoot?
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Murder at Twilight Gardens by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (male) role is voice-only and can be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy with minimal set requirements.
SynopsisFour sprightly senior sleuths try to solve the murder that has taken place in their residential home, with the reluctant assistance of their Activities Supervisor.
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Bags And Browning by Liz Carroll
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 47 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama with a single setting.
SynopsisMary is a homeless woman known as the Bard of the South Bank for her recitations of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Browning. But someone has heard she might have a valuable manuscript, and is willing to kill for it
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Alright On The Night? by Robin Wilson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 36 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy play, with a single (village hall stage) set.
SynopsisIt's the dress rehearsal for the Downcot players' production, but one stage exit has been blocked by the WI and the Stage Manager has decided to concentrate on his acting. Not to mention the elderly actor who wanders off altogether...
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Socks by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
3rd Place, the Ian Wishart Quaich in the 2023 Edinburgh round of the Scottish Community Drama Association's One-Act Festival.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four principal characters plus an off-stage female voice (which could be pre-recorded).
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort, one-act comedy play. Single set - the inside of a clothes dryer at a laundromat! ( A delightful contribution to an under-used sub-genre of costume drama!)
SynopsisA group of single socks discuss their plight. Should they attempt escape? Why have they been abandoned? Don't humans know that socks are the cornerstone of civilization?
A tale of abandonment, rejection and hope in the confines of a clothes dryer.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of clean laundry must be in want of the correct number of socks.
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Life in the Cloud by Tony Domaille
Palace Players - Winner Ballincollig Drama Festival 2022
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play in a single living room set. The sci-fi-esque idea of a dead man's consciousness stored in the cloud is used for an engaging exploration of grief and moving on.
SynopsisIan was a workaholic, obsessed with his scientific work, until his sudden death. But before he died, he discovered how to upload his consciousness to The Cloud. Now he is trying to continue to live from the ether, whilst his wife, Mary, desperately tries to get on with her life and a new relationship.
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The Act Of Living by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Evelyn doubles - as Sophie.
Run TimeAround 49 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama, moving through different eras, with a minimal (park bench) set.
SynopsisTom and Evelyn met when they were children during the war, and their relationship grew and changed. As an old man, Tom looks back across the years to re-live their time together.
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