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The Barrier by Neville Judson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Stongly-written one-act drama set in the 1990s in a single guest-house setting. Contains adult themes, with meaty material to the actors as the two couples explore very different attitudes towards sexuality. |
Synopsis | Clare and Graham arrive for a weekend in Tenby when they bump into old friends Marjorie and Richard. But Richard has refused to speak to Graham since a falling-out twenty-five years ago. The women are shocked to discover the reason. |
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Bat Out Of Heaven by Frank Gibbons Short-listed in the Drama Association of Wales Competition 2008. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mix of teenagers and two generations of adults. Could be played by such a mix, or possibly by a youth theatre group. Four table tennis players appear for opening and closing mimes. (The doctor is written male, but could be female.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one-act drama, well-told, treating the central theme sensitively but without excessive sentimentality. Multiple locations but designed for very simple staging. |
Synopsis | Jessie is the favoured daughter, getting perhaps too much of Mum's interest in her Table Tennis efforts. Her brother is jealous, and things take a turn for the worse when Jessie is diagnosed with leukaemia. Her Mum must admit that she is adopted, and so her brother Rob cannot be a marrow donor. Rob sets out on a quest to find a donor sibling. |
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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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Being Rose by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Requires 5 actresses of varying ages to play the title character. Every male character is intended to be played by the same actor, and every female character (aside from Rose) by the same actress. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play with various settings. |
Synopsis | Rose looks back on her life from old age but as we see her memories replayed before us, differences emerge between her stories and reality. As her confusion increases, a doctor's diagnosis explains all. In this emotional look at the devastating effects of dementia, Rose is able to recollect momentous emotional events in her life which are vividly and evocatively played out on stage. |
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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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Black Combe by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, creating some tensions, with a single set. |
Synopsis | Three separate meetings take place on the same day, in the bar of the Duck and Feathers. Each of them, in their own way, affects the life of the landlord, Jimmy. Is it true that the clouds over Black Combe are bringing him bad luck? |
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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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Blood On Canvas by Richard James Best Seller Best Play, Maidenhead Drama Guild, Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2021 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense one act thriller with a single (art gallery) setting. |
Synopsis | Artist Maddie is beginning to establish herself as a successful artist, but her studio and gallery are situated in a remote area and a killer is apparently on the loose. When art collector Stella arrives, it becomes clear that one of them is the killer. The tension rises inexorably... to the shocking final denouement. |
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A Bouquet For Bethany by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The vicar is written male, but could be female (the author suggests a name change for that casting). |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun one-act comedy with good roles from 7 actors and a single interior set. |
Synopsis | On the eve of her wedding, Bethany sends her brother to buy two bouquets - one for herself and one for their grandmother's grave. But when Ethan lays the wrong bouquet on the grave, he must retrieve it without being mistaken for the local graveyard robber. Matters are complicated by visits from the vicar and the police and Bethany getting drunk on her surprise hen night. |
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