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| Potted Austen: Sense and Sensibility by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, covering all of the important events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
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| A Price to Pay by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are a male teenager and an adult lawyer of either gender. (The adult could be played by another member of a youth theatre company.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short and snappy drama that would be very easy to stage. |
| Synopsis | Teenager James is being interviewed by his solicitor whilst on remand for the murder of his father. It is clear the father was violent and abusive, but why has James' mother made him promise the world won't know? |
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The Proposition by Brian Coyle
A winner of the British Theatre Challenge (International one-act playwriting competition) 2014 |
| 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, set in a flat - which should appear 'expensive'. |
| Synopsis | Alan has been picked up, and he assumes it's for sex, but what Leo has in mind is quite different. Alan begins to suspect something when he meets Laila, but when Leo uses a stungun on him, he's really confused. Because it's all about art... |
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| Quanto Sei Bella by Jonathan Edgington |
| 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 | How to categorise this? Short drama? A play about relationships with a mild dose of magic realism? Single (minimal) set and a few props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Dave is managing the kids' football team while Pete's off sick, and he's glad Carol has popped into the changing room to pick up her son's boots, because he has something odd to ask his old friend. How will Carol react when she finds out Dave has got something back that everyone thought had been lost forever? |
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Questions by Susan Vesey
Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Edward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it. |
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| Reading by Firelight by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Range of (playing) ages from 'the twins' aged eight to their seventy-year-old grandfather. (The twins need not be identical, nor of the same gender.) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching short play (three 'acts', but a total time of only 15 minutes). Single domestic set - mainly indicated by a few essential props. Contains one mild swear-word (which can be dropped at the direcor's discretion). |
| Synopsis | Eddie's family surprise him with a party on his seventieth birthday, but there's a row and his granddaughter leaves suddenly. She returns later to open her heart to the old man and gain some understanding. |
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| Reality? by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one teenager. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Startling fifteen minute play. Single set (just a couch), minimal props. |
| Synopsis | What's going on? They appear to be a family, but they don't agree about who's who - or, indeed anything else!
Parallel universes are colliding in one house, causing confusion about identity, location and time.
(Okay, strictly, if they are parallel it should not be possible for them to collide, but the grammatical part of 'Multiverse' theory is not yet as advanced as the mathematics, so you'll just have to put up with an imprecise description!) |
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| Reporting From... by Liliya Sazanavets |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. A lot of doubling is possible, but the author does not recommend it, because each character represents a specific group in society and the characters have to deliver a clear message to the audience. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] This is based on the author's experience. Since there is no dialogue it is very difficult to judge! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mimodrama - a drama with no spoken words where plot and emotions are conveyed through actions. Performed well, this could be a very powerful piece. Props and furniture (including a swing) but no fixed set. |
| Synopsis | An anonymous journalist reports on various horrific situations in areas of conflict in various parts of the modern violent world. Her message is all the more poignant as it is delivered without words. |
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| The Right One by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, tinged with black comedy in a single, simple set (another starring role for the park bench.) |
| Synopsis | An unlikely couple meet at dawn in a park. One of them is a murderer, looking for a potential victim... |
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| Ring Finger by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue (not for the squeamish) in a single set (it really only needs a bedroom chair). |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth travels with a childhood friend to The Pyramids where the old moral to 'be careful what you wish for' takes a violent and unexpected turn. |
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