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Baby Sparklers by Frank Gibbons Performance by Palace Players won the Orkney District SCDA one act play festival 2015 and picked-up the Best Moment in Theatre trophy in the Scottish finals. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are aged 7 to 9, but are intended to be played by adults or teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act nostalgic comedy play with a single - bonfire - set. An evocation of children growing-up in an industiral town in the 1970s. Revised 2011 to shorten it slightly to a length suitable for one-act play festivals. |
Synopsis | November 4th 1970 - a time for learning to swear, a time for discovering friendship, and a time for earning respect. Armed with dustbin lids and iron railings, Rachel, Susan and Tommy are prepared to guard their modest bonfire pile against an expected raid by the dreaded Dawson twins. But an even greater danger threatens to engulf them when a member of the group is lured away by the Firework Man. |
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Barbecue by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Newly arrived Lydia and Edward decide to hold a barbecue to meet the neighbours, but from umbrella wielding eco-warrior Kate to pushy property developer Trevor, they soon realise they are ringmasters at a circus of warring factions. Can be performed alongside its sister play 'Eight Seconds'. |
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Battle of the Bedroom by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 3M, 4F, but - with permissible minor tweaks to the text, could be played by any combination. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny and fast-paced one-act comedy combining physical humour with witty dialogue. |
Synopsis | When Chris and Jo move into their new bedsit apartment, they discover that it's much smaller than they first thought and that living together, with their combined possessions, is going to be an alarmingly cramped and intimate experience. |
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The Big Event by Horry Parsons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single set. |
Synopsis | Trainee Assistant Librarian Poppy is in charge for the day, but the library is under refurbishment - in preparation for the anniversary of the visit of Elizabeth the First. Village characters drop by the library to discuss the upcoming celebration and inspect - and protest - about the building work. |
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Bill & Ben by Richard James Performance by Tiger Theatrical Productions won Best Comedy and Best Actor at the 2014 Spelthorne and Runneymede drama festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play - a two hander involving playwrights. |
Synopsis | Ben Jonson is spending his last day in his condemned cell, after killing an actor in a duel. He has a surprise visitor - William Shakespeare, who comes to plead with him to perform a 'neck-verse' - reciting a Psalm, that may save him from the noose. But what does Shakespeare have to gain? |
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The Black Widow by Helen Sharman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Parody of a Victorian melodrama - all the exaggerated wickedness, innocence, heroism and coincidence, with added comedy! Several scenes, but sets implied rather than elaborate. Simple props. Contains mild innuendo. |
Synopsis | Old lepidopterist, Squire Decrepit, is the wicked Vylene's fourth husband - and she's about to look for a fifth. All that stands between her and the dashing Mark Christmas is the sweet, innocent Abigail her strange uncle, Ivor and Squire Decrepit - who just happens to be in a wheelchair on a cliff-top. |
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Blackmail in Bohemia by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, with minimal set dressing required. A companion piece to Pemberton’s previous Death by Detective, inspired by Conan Doyle’s story A Scandal in Bohemia. |
Synopsis | When the legendary Inspector Bucket is hired to stop a royal prince from being blackmailed by a former lover, he is thrown into a fiery and passionate encounter with a femme fatale that threatens to melt his intellectual froideur and stir undiscovered emotions. |
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Blind Date, Inc. 111 by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight scenes, eight couples - but since the stories run consecutively, the minimum is two pairs, with lots of doubling. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs. |
Synopsis | This follows exactly the same structure as the two predecessors Blind Date Inc, and Blind Date, Inc. 2 but with a different set of couples working out different relationships, covering a range of odd issues, with even Sherlock Holmes taking up the dating game! |
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Bloody Actors! by Archie Wilson Best Seller Halton Amateur Theatre Society won the Ralph Newble award for the best comedic moment at the RAFTA one act drama festival April 2017. |
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 | A one act comedy with a single set. |
Synopsis | A group of retired actors living in a nursing home try to get along but events from their past careers make it difficult. The answer seems to lie in preparing and performing a play for the other residents. |
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The Book Club Of Little Witterington - After The Fete by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | The ladies of the village book club have gathered to discuss Neville Shute’s ‘On The Beach’. Some of the members have not read the book and the others seem more interested in discussing - or rather gossiping - about people and events in the village which spill over into the meeting. |
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