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Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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Date Night by Dana Davies |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with adult language and mature themes. |
Synopsis | Liam has hired Robert to kidnap his wife for a night of kinky passion, and to film it all for posterity. The only problem is, when the hood comes off, it’s not Liam’s wife handcuffed to the bed! |
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Death Threats by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, one act thriller. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Katherine and Graham have taken a cottage in the country, but a threatening letter addressed to Katherine has found them anyway. She persuades him to call the police for help, but Constable Roberts has a surprise for them. |
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short fantasy melodrama, adapted from the Washington Irving short story. Compèred by rhyming narrators. |
Synopsis | Tom Walker meets the Devil, who offers him buried treasure in exchange for his soul. Eventually Tom agrees to the bargain and becomes a merciless moneylender, hoarding his great fortune. Later, Tom begins to fear damnation and makes a great show of being religious. Despite Tom's newfound piety, the Devil comes for him on a black horse, and Tom is never seen again. |
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Escape From Garden Grove by Mathilde Dratwa |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters of different ages |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy duologue set on a bus stop bench. Set in America, but with a universal theme. Includes (appropriate) strong language. |
Synopsis | Teenager Sophie and her grandmother Faye are about to set off on an adventurous trip. With pathos and comedy, and her sagacity, Faye helps Sophie see the world in a different light. |
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Extra Cream by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, two-handed play, with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | Housewife Lillian has a milkman Steve - who has called to respond to the note she left for him. In an intriguing interplay between the two, the contents of the note are gradually revealed, as sexual tension ebbs to and fro across the kitchen table. |
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Eye Phone 64 by John Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act futuristic drama with a single (studio apartment) set. |
Synopsis | In the not too distant future, Nokia lives with his android butler. A mobile phone salesman arrives to update Nokia's phone - with devastating results. |
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Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play which might, because it treats the same subject in a variety of ways, be viewed as a series of sketches. Minimal setting (a pair of chairs, representing a car). |
Synopsis | A group of alternative endings to the story of Bonnie and Clyde, to be used in no particular order. A comic treatment of a serious event, for three actors. |
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The Final Eppy Log by Laurie Hornsby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One on-stage character plus an offstage newsread (single line) which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a single bedroom set. |
Synopsis | On the night he is destined to die of a drug overdose, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, reflects on his life and career. |
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The Fisherman by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A lengthy monologue with no set required. |
Synopsis | The life of an East Coast fisherman, before and after the Second World War, is related in an evocative monologue. |
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