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| Insider by Katherine Melmore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act female monologue, with a basic set - a chair. |
| Synopsis | A young woman undergoes a startling transformation into a spider, scurrying around the very hospital where she used to be a patient - or perhaps she still is... Movements should be carefully choreographed. |
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| Inspector Whalley's Cause for Alarm by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | The police are concerned when someone burgles four dwellings in one night without leaving the slightest trace. They are even more baffled when the stolen items are mysteriously returned the following night. Will the irascible DI Whalley and his motley team be able to solve this intriguing case?
'Cause for Alarm' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook. |
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| Interrogation by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act political drama set across three simple interrogation rooms. |
| Synopsis | Three different people are being interrogated at different points in time by different interrogators, all because of crimes related to their political beliefs. |
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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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| An Irregular Satellite by Meg Schenk |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Female character also sings. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for one of the two songs is provided with the Producer's copy of this script. (The other is a suggestion of a popular song.) |
| Style | A one act love story, with two songs, and a single simple set. |
| Synopsis | In an imaginative setting, good friends Fran and Scott gradually discover their love for each other. Written in American English. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Isaac and Ishmael by Christopher Kent |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful play for a small cast in a single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Adam is waiting for the reading of his father's will, but that won't take place until the attorney arrives and Adam's institutionalised brother David is brought to the house. The noises only Adam can hear are scaring him, as does the fear his brother's madness may be genetic... |
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| It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
| Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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| Janet and John by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, largely through a series of intertwined monologues. |
| Synopsis | Janet and John have been married a long time, but she has no idea what announcement he might have in store for her. She only knows that it's unheard for him to give up his Friday night at the railway society to take her out to dinner. Why? |
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| Jim Jam by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jim, his wife Mary, and one of their sons, are all stuck in a traffic jam. Jim’s frustrated, his wife is trying to stay serene, and their son is desperate for the loo. |
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| Joey by Stuart Smithers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in a clown's dressing room. |
| Synopsis | Sidney Hollister has spent a long career as a clown, dragging his long-suffering wife Babs to shows in dingy community centres, all in tribute to his idol, clowning pioneer Joseph Grimaldi. An onstage incident at a children's show prompts them both to reassess their priorities. |
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