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Josh's Wall by Ian Elmslie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Teenage cast recommended. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A thought-provoking short play, for GCSE level students. |
Synopsis | Three friends meet up on Christmas Day to discuss the death of their friend. What does it mean, and why did they not know it was coming? And what would people say about them if they died? |
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Just an Act by Chantel Kuli |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is optional, mainly for the final party scene. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act romantic comedy for teenagers. |
Synopsis | Lisa is angry at Tommy because he hasn't learned his lines for the school production of Romeo and Juliet. Her anger is a mask for her growing attraction to Tommy, although she won't admit this to herself, Tommy or her jock-boyfriend Clark. Lisa finally realises her feelings when Clark provokes her, resulting in Lisa dumping Clark, but will Tommy take the initiative...? |
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Kleptomania by Mark Ash |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but assumed to be performed by a cast of children. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Large-cast play set in a school. Comedy, verging on the melodramatic. |
Synopsis | The school is under threat of closure, the bursar is gambling with the school funds, the school secretary has left, an inspection is due any minute and things keep going missing (including several pupils). What this school needs is heroism and leadership. What it has got is an incompetent head, staff members bent on partying, a group of very dangerous science students and, somewhere, a kleptomaniac. A tale of muddle, romance and the Mongolian police. |
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The Last Gateway by Sarah Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Roles are a mixture of children and adults, but all played by children. Two principal characters and three narrators, with a (flexible) company playing the rest of the roles. At times chorus members become parts of the set, including trees and a car. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Realism morphing into fantasy. Minimal set and props, with the company creating atmosphere and locations. Scope for improvisation, dance and creative chorus work. |
Synopsis | Bullied Faith and newcomer Tom form a friendship which leads to adventure uncovering a shared past in a parallel world. |
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ad. Gerald P. Murphy A production by Vanguard College Prep School in 2017 came second in their district competition and picked up 4 acting awards at the Texas state competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, designed for simple staging. |
Synopsis | The classic tale staged as a one act play. Jo dreams of being a writer, and Laurie dreams of Jo, but life has different plans for them. Jo travels to New York and meets a Professor before becoming an author, and Laurie travels in Europe and marries Jo's sister Amy. |
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Macbeth - Which Witch is Which? by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. All parts written female but, at a pinch, the Head Teacher could be male. Assumed to be performed by a youthful cast (although, of course, the two teachers and the cleaner could be played by adults). |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, tries to put the witches through their paces for a school production of Macbeth. Round and round the cauldron go - or would go, if the props team had finished making the cauldron. |
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
Synopsis | There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? |
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Marlowe's Revenge by Jonathan Caldicot |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a secondary school or youth theatre group. The group are preparing to stage a play, so it's essentially a bare-stage production (with an offstage special effect). |
Synopsis | A group of actors from a Boys' School are taking their production of Dr Faustus to a nearby Girls' School. With the lead actor off due to a broken leg, his understudy is unsure of the part, and some of the girls are more interested in the boys than the play. |
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Melissa's Big Birthday Bash by Eric Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The on-stage characters are teenage girls plus a younger brother and his friend. There are a couple of offstage adult voices. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller for teenagers with a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | It is Melissa's fifteenth birthday. Most of her friends are away or busy, so it looks as though her slumber party will not be a huge success. On top of that her mother has invited the dreaded Nikki Nolan, the girl everyone hates, to her party. But what looks like a boring and uncomfortable night for Melissa turns into something else entirely in this mystery thriller, which comes complete with ghost stories, an intruder, cut telephone lines and a neat twist at the end. |
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Messengers by Clay Space |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for youth age performers, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A demanding and emotional piece of drama. Years of blame and abuse have brought Brian to the point of taking his own life. As the garage fills with car exhaust, he is visited by figures from his life who force him to consider his choices. |
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