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Pride and Proton Lasers by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play, wittily mashing-up two familiar genres. |
Synopsis | A scheduling error at a theatre means that a production of a Regency period drama and a science fiction suspense play have to share the stage. |
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Quota by James Hutchison Audience Appreciation Award, 2017 British Theatre Challenge Act II, Produced by Sky Blue Theatre Company. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act satire on a simple living room set. |
Synopsis | Dave Dixon is looking for a job online when he is interrupted by the Metro City Census Taker and finds himself being targeted for corrective action because of his unemployment and the fact that he’s left-handed. When a two-kilo bag of white sugar is found on the premises and Dixon faces jail time, he has to make a moral choice between naming names and protecting himself. |
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Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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Strange New Worlds by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props, Science Fiction (TV) parody [Okay, early Star Trek!] |
Synopsis | Three members of the Galaxy Patrol, Security Branch, are on the surface of an alien planet. Bearing in mind they're all wearing red jerseys, how many will get off the planet alive? |
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Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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Waiting for Twist Stiffly by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play which takes place on the set of a 1950s science fiction serial, but is really about actors and their relationship to their characters. |
Synopsis | Filming of the 1950s adventure serial 'Twist Stiffly - Space adventurer' is being held up because the leading man is nowhere to be found. While the remaining cast members lounge around waiting for him to turn up, they discuss their roles in the drama and their dissatisfactions with the main man. Then they come up with a great way to fill their time until he arrives... |
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Watch This Space [Comedy Play] by Karrena Dewhurst |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the characters is the voice of the computer - conceivably recorded, but probably better live. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, set in space. (There is also a follow-up, 'Watch This Space Too', by Leo Finn, using the same characters.) |
Synopsis | Rodney's just the cleaner on the spaceship, and he's the butt of everyone's jokes, even the shipboard computer. But when an Alien species threatens the ship, only Rodney's brain has the... spare capacity for telepathic communication. It's up to him to save the ship! |
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Watch This Space Too by Leo Finn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. FRED is a computer (and therefore presumably, present in voice only.) |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, set on the bridge of a spaceship. Uses (with permission) the characters from Karrena Dewhurst's 'Watch This Space' |
Synopsis | The Captain, the Doctor, Number Two and FRED the computer helpt to bring Rodney the Cleaner 's Art of Air Guitar to an alien race. |
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