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Smoke and Mirrors by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue recounted by a theatre director. |
Synopsis | A director talks through the trials and tribulations on an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays. |
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Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
Synopsis | After a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. |
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Soldiers by Louise Wade |
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 | A short WW1-set drama on a simple set, suitable for adults or teens. |
Synopsis | Three soldiers find themselves in a holding cell as dawn breaks during the First World War: one on a drunk charge, one held for assaulting an officer, and one a conscientious objector. |
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The Staff Room by Juliet Devon New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only). |
Synopsis | Unable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties. |
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The Story of an Hour by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play, single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | Louise Mallard's husband Brently has been killed in a train accident and her sister Josephine and husband's friend Barton try to break the news to her in a way that won't disturb her heart condition. They are unaware of how trapped she feels by the marriage and the freedom that her husband's death gives. However Barton has been given the wrong information by the police and Brently arrives just as Louise is planning her long, free life. |
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Strangers When We Meet by Scott Carpenter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and Eira are both in their sixties, and looking for love. As the two make awkward small talk, childhoods are revisited and memories are stirred. Perhaps they are not strangers at all |
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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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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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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. |
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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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