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The Cast Is Die by Peter Robbie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play with a great self-referential twist on drama about drama. It has some silly comedy while retaining a strong thriller element, and the dialogue is snappy and characterful. |
Synopsis | Five members of an amateur drama group meet to plan their next production. Tensions, bitchiness and backstabbing abound. Their script is about five members of a drama group, who meet to plan their next production - a meeting which ends in madness and murder. Can the cast bring life to the script or does, as it seems, the script have a life of its own? |
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The Cat and The Monkey by Charlotte Court Production by Jinx Theatre Company scooped the Daniel Penfilled Award for Best Actress at the BC Drama Festival in 2016 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedic-drama in one act, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | At first it appears that a marriage guidance session for Sophie and James is in progress - using the audience as the counsellor. But as all of their simmering grievances come to the fore, it gradually becomes clear that something completely different and poignant is happening. |
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Catch As Catch Can by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, in a single set. A comedy, which is not what one expects from Othello. |
Synopsis | An alternative history of Othello, playing with our preconceptions of Shakespeare's characters. A worldly wise Iago is giving advice about women to a distraught Cassio, who cannot bear to see Desdemona married to Othello. But Iago's wife seems to be openly flirting with the General, and Desdemona isn't happy... |
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The Catch by Stan Duncan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two characters are offstage voices and can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act melodramatic thriller with various settings. |
Synopsis | Paul, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, has something otherworldly about him. As he explains the reason he is in hospital to student nurse Yvonne, his strange and intriguing past is slowly revealed. |
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Cell Mates by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (prison cell) setting. |
Synopsis | Young Terry Cole is entering the prison system for the first time. His youthful swagger is tempered by his apprehension about what lies ahead. His meeting with cell mate, murderer George, has a profound effect on him. |
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Chain Reaction by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The author describes all the characters as 'of a similar age, which would ideally be around forty, give or take a decade or two.' |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with two scenes (hotel bar and a living room) exploring adult themes with an intriguing mix of monologue and action. |
Synopsis | A group of singles attempting to find partners with varying levels of desperation, happily resulting in reconciliation for at least one couple. |
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Change Of Heart by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller. |
Synopsis | A tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her? |
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Changing Rooms by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy with a single, simple (department store changing rooms) setting. |
Synopsis | Bride-to-be Sophia and her prospective mother-in-law Rosa are having difficulty choosing a mutually acceptable wedding gown. Meanwhile, Jo is trying to find a pair of Jeans to fit, Gemma is struggling with a top and her boyfriend Sam is wondering why he's spending so long waiting outside the cubicles. Fortunately, there's Maggie, the ever-smiling shop assistant, always on hand to offer some very pointed advice. |
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A Chaotic Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act verse play, rearranging Dickens. |
Synopsis | 'A Christmas Carol' is given a huge twist to show Scrooge as a determined do-gooder, despite the machinations of wicked embezzler Bob Cratchit and the forlorn ghost of grasping Jacob Marley, plus assorted spirits. |
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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up. |
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