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Bigger Fish by Clive David Lloyd Williams
Published: 6 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Crime drama from a slice of 1960s British history. Multiple sets, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama. (Could be paired with a shorter play for an evening of one-act drama, or stand on its own.) |
| Synopsis | Policeman 'Nipper' Read sees The Great Train Robbery as a chance, not just to make his mark in the police force, but to get the chance to go after the bigger fish - starting with the Kray twins. It’ll take time, but he's a determined man. |
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** Jpeg image by Jo Goodberry designed to form the basis for a poster for 'Bigger Fish' by Clive David Lloyd Williams
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Zuri's Choice by Jonathan Edgington
Published: 6 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are young adults and (very) old adults, but it could fall within the compass of a youth theatre company with a good make-up artist! |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An atmospheric thriller with aspects of fantasy and time travel. Multiple settings, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama (so could stand alone or be paired with a shorter piece.) |
| Synopsis | Young Zuri thinks she's done a good thing by returning a long-lost christening bracelet her dog dug up in a wood to eighty-year-old, tea leaf-reading Lorelei, but has she? Who is George and how come he knows so much about Zuri when she's never even met him? And what does the mysterious rusty old key that George helped Zuri 'find' unlock? |
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome adapted Léo Woodland
Published: 2 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic novel adapted for the stage in one act. Three sets (including the boat), but can be achieved with just furniture. |
| Synopsis | Three idle gentlemen of the nineteenth century convince themselves they are ill and in need of a cruise along the Thames. |
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University Challenge by David Morrison
Published: 2 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sharp satire on university bureaucracy in one act. A character-driven, comedic slice of academic life. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Over a sherry, Professor Henry ruminates with a colleague about his difficulty retaining secretaries. Meanwhile Katy, the latest, tries to understand his method for listing students and courses. Three months later, a new secretary brings a fresh set of problems, which Henry handles in his customary manner. |
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Friends Help You Move by John L. Ward
Published: 1 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All characters have been scripted as male, but Macker and Nally can be played as female with minimal changes to dialogue. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An enjoyable gangster comedy with humorous banter. Single set with just a few items of furniture. US English, with strong language and violence. |
| Synopsis | Two inept thieves, Nally and Macker, are planning a heist, and need to convince O'Hara to come onboard. The problem is, O'Hara is a violent psychopath, and Macker has a tendency to get irritable. When Macker knocks O'Hara unconscious, the two must think quick. |
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Perfect Storm by Barry Lambert and Amy Randall
Published: 25 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (with elements of drama, thriller and whodunnit) in a single pub setting. |
| Synopsis | It's a dark and stormy night, with the regulars sheltering in the pub. Amongst them is the unpleasant Ernie Trubshaw, but in a brief powercut Ernie dies with a gunshot wound. Was it murder? And if so, who did it? |
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Copycat by Charles Dennison
Published: 24 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act thriller - a drama with a twist, in a single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | Chris seems to have ended up at Harriot's house because of an accident, but he has evil plans in mind. A visit from her neighbours isn't going to be enough to stop a notorious killer from claiming another victim. But who will the victim be? |
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