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Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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Ten Minutes Left by Bart Meehan |
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 short play with minimal set requirements. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | A couple’s previously staid relationship blossoms as they wait, knowing there are only ten minutes before an unknown catastrophe arrives. Is there time to remember their first meeting? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Terminal 1 by Dave Payne |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute drama with a single (departure lounge) setting. |
Synopsis | George and Lynda's flight has been delayed, so far by 9 hours. George becomes more and more annoyed whilst Lynda is strangely calm and collected. Their love for each other shines through as the reason for their journey - and the play's title - becomes poignantly clear. |
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Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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That Goal by Stan Duncan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, poignant prose monologue of appeal to people for whom interests in football and theatre intersect! |
Synopsis | Denis is an ex-professional footballer, whose visitors remind him of his past glories. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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That Sinking Feeling by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue-sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A customer service call-taker deals with an unhappy customer - who is dealing with a situation on board the Titanic, and wants to know if the company will compensate her... |
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The Thing She Left Behind by Tracey Vanessa Brown |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play on a split set - a sick room in a castle and a Louisiana backroad. |
Synopsis | In Scotland, elderly Felicia lies dying, hoping to pass on her secret witchcraft to a younger relative. Her death is discussed by three other witches in Felicia’s home of Louisiana. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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This Is A Lockdown by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama |
Synopsis | A group of students and their teacher are sorting costumes in a remote school building when a lockdown is announced over the tannoy. Is it a drill, or the real thing? And what will happen to the student who left the building? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Three Sons by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, contemporary, minimal set, one simple prop. |
Synopsis | Waiting for a connecting flight, three men find they have something in common, though one is keeping a secret... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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