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Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple one act play. |
Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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My Sister, The Thief by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two characters are written as female but can be played as male - this would of course require a change in title, which the author is happy for you to do. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play ideal for teenage performers, with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Ally has always looked up to her big sister, Tee, the hockey star, the brightest pupil, so generous with gifts. But now she’s discovered that Tee has been stealing those presents, not buying them. |
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The Necklace by Tony Best Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts won best Youth Production and the Syd Mence cup for a piece of theatre magic at the Wilmslow Guild One Act play Festival, 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. There are two main roles, and a 'chorus of voices' playing all the other roles, thus the numbers are very flexible. The chorus members play specific roles but also act as a 'Greek Chorus' to comment on the story. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play based on a short story (a moral fable) by Guy de Maupassant. Written for a youth theatre production but could be performed by adults. |
Synopsis | Mathilde is a vain, proud woman, who regrets that the she has been born into the humbler classes. She longs to be an aristocrat. Given her chance to shine, she borrows a stunning necklace, but that is the start of her woes. |
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Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with solo roles and (potentially) a very large chorus, described as the people of earth and dancing pairs of animals. (There is even a non-speaking cameo for God.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy comes with a piano and vocal score for the 19 songs and instrumentals. (There is a conductors score and band parts as an optional extra.) |
Style | Lively, expressive, epic musical with some light humour. Designed to not rely heavily on props or set. |
Synopsis | Noah receives a message from God that the earth will be washed away. With his wife, his three sons and their respective wives, all of them ignoring the sneers of the ignorant townsfolk, he begins crafting an ark to bear them and the animals of the world to safety. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** CD of the orchestrated version of Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling. (Note that this is backing music, the tracks are purely instrumental and do not necessarily have a prominent instrument playing the vocal parts) ** Conductor's score and band parts - Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax and Tenor Sax (for two reed players), Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard - for 'Noah, Yes Noah' by Richard Cowling.
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On A Street Corner by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are 'Man, Boy and Girl' with an implication of relative ages, but not absolute ages! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (representing a street corner, but no real set requirements). |
Synopsis | Street corner preaching meets the Da Vinci code in a brief examination of religious truth and meaning. |
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The Passion by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single set (a cart!), basic props. |
Synopsis | The betrayal, trial and crucifixion of Jesus. |
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Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set. |
Synopsis | The story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.) |
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The Pilgrim's Progress [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. Oodles of allegorical characters, plenty of scope for doubling. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length adaptation - in very modern English - of John Bunyan's Christian allegory. |
Synopsis | A pilgrim sets out in search of the City of Gold. On his journey he has to negotiate traps and deal with other pilgrims, many of whom may be misguided. |
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The Pilgrim's Progress by Christopher Morgan Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props. |
Synopsis | A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven. |
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