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Final Motions by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.) |
Synopsis | Doctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure. |
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Finding Goddard by Deborah Hugill Performance by Ury Players won the Gallery Trophy in the Aberdeen District of the SCDA one-act play festival 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 11 minor roles can be easily shared by two actors. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a variety of locations but minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | When it turns out a modest, unassuming man in Helions Bumpstead is really God, everyone has an angle and everyone wants in. But soon enough, people affected by 'Acts of God' want their day in court. |
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Fine on the Outside by Jonathan Edgington Shortlisted for the 2015 Pint Sized Plays' international playwriting competition. Selected for and performed at The Salisbury Fringe's 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival in 2019. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | In this duologue between husband and wife, the conversation is dominated by the obsessive fitness regime he has undertaken. |
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The Finger of Fate by Peter May |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for two actors, no set necessary. |
Synopsis | It’s the French Revolution, but not all of the peasants are revolting. |
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First Impressions by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in an art gallery. |
Synopsis | Sandra and Mary are on a day out in London. They have an unexpected cultural experience whilst sheltering from the rain. |
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First Night Nerves by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | It's first night of a new show and the nerves are showing... |
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The First Rehearsal by Peter Appleton Chelford Players performance achieved the Adjudicators Special Award at Chelford Drama Festival 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Singular lack of set (which the stage manager indicates by placing chairs around the stage - a process very familiar to some of us). |
Synopsis | An amateur drama group come together to block out the moves at the first rehearsal of their incomplete script. The dialogue is odd, the plot confusing and the characters get out of hand... just like in every AmDram group! |
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First Time Around by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Mainly adult characters, but bridesmaids are children. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is the option of adding non-speaking wedding guests. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, with a single (wedding reception) set. |
Synopsis | Two families collide at a wedding. One has taken pains to ensure the speeches are suitable (and short enough!) for the eminent guests they have invited, by bringing along some chloroform. But not everyone at the event is what they seem, with the Bride's family are playing at being poor country bumpkins to avoid paying for the event. |
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Fishing for Clues by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. As written, there are six men and five women, but two of the men are identical twins, and since very few acting companies are blessed with such a pairing, the characters are assumed to be played by one chap. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length, wryly comic whodunnit. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing and hanky-panky. |
Synopsis | When Lady Rosemary Huntley brings a new gentleman friend home on the evening of a talk given by prominent Member of Parliament, Ewart Stewart, little does she imagine that the gentleman friend is not long for this world and that the Foreign Office and some offshoot of the KGB will soon be in attendance, along with the ever-enthusiastic PC Pendlebury and the less than enthusiastic Inspector Trench, unimpressed by having his fishing holiday interrupted. Trench is determined to get back to the river bank as soon as possible despite finding himself having to sort through a diverse cast of characters all of whom had motives for committing the deadly deed. |
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Flaming Liberty by David Titchener Performances by Tomorrow Production won the Jose Grant Diamond Jubilee Trophy - Wellington Drama Festival, 2012 and The Will Horton Cup - BFame, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comic heist in (surprisingly) a single set. |
Synopsis | A trio of unsuccessful petty thieves plan to pull off their most audacious heist yet - stealing the Olympic Flame itself! With the flame held to ransom, they'll be legendary thieves at last! (The characters get further outings in The Next Big Thing and I Now Pronounce You . The scripts function independently, but might also be performed as a set.) |
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