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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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Kit Kat Man by James Addis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An efficient spy drama - like a compact Le Carré. Realistic dialogue leading to a surprising but well-planted twist. Simple set - another chance to wheel-out the park bench. |
Synopsis | Moscow, near the end of the Cold War. Paula Wilson seeks to coax the defector Gerald Soames back to Britain, ostensibly as a means of undermining the intelligence Soames has given to the Soviets. In reality, her motives are more sinister. |
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The Knock by Elisabeth Marrion |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue. |
Synopsis | Alma Zenick moved from Germany to England in the 1870s to work as a furrier. Decades later, in the first year of World War One, she awaits news of her sixth son. The other five have died in action, and she dreads receiving bad news about her last boy. |
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Last Duchess by Iris Winston Won first prize in the Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short stage adaptation of Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess. |
Synopsis | The spirit of a murdered wife steps from her portrait to try and warn the next fiancée of the fate that awaits her. |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play |
Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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Legion by Jonathan Edgington Selected for and performed at the Pensive Federation Theatre Company's 2016 Collective Project Playwriting Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes one moment where characters dance, and the producer's copy suggests a song to be played at this point. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A dramatic sketch, suitable for a young adult company or youth theatre, with a single (railway platform) setting. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Thrown off the train for rowdy behaviour, a group of young friends are joined by a knowledgeable stranger who seems to be trying to 'recruit' them for an unknown purpose. |
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Lie Detector by Peter Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Thorpe and Beaulieu are written male and female respectively. That could, at a pinch, be altered. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A neat sketch (a long skit, or a short play), with an excellent twist. Single very simple (interrogation room) set. |
Synopsis | It's not easy finding the truth, and Miss Beaulieu (if that is her real name) isn't having an easy time of it. Mr Thorpe is running rings around her and her lie detector, making her wonder if she needs a holiday. And with lies, things are not what they seem. |
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The Little Cottage by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute Irish folk tale. |
Synopsis | The Doyle family have a perfect life, but then Margaret's parents move into their little cottage. They now feel crowded. Father Kelly's advice is to make the cottage even more crowded and has Dennis Doyle bring in goats and chickens, which make matters even worse. |
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Live by Robin Fusco |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute play set in an underground bunker. |
Synopsis | A makeshift family must decide whether to die in the bunker they have called home or to embrace change and brave the outside world. |
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Lost and Found by Mike Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are labeled 'boy' and 'girl' because they have to be called something. This does not imply anything about their ages. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play, structured in two acts (because there are definitely two phases to the action - with and without suitcase), but actually a bare stage or front-of-curtain script. Very snappy dialogue. Contains mild bad language. |
Synopsis | Someone has lost a suitcase, and someone has found a suitcase. The pair meet up, trying to determine if the suitcase found is the same as the suitcase lost, despite mutual suspicion. |
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