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About Michael by Peter Anthony Fields Audience Appreciation Award Second Place - The British Theatre Challenge 2017 Act II |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama on a stage divided into two sets. US English. Originally published 2018, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | A high school English teacher meets with the administrators for his mid-term evaluation, only to discover that it is in fact an interrogation. |
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An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
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Alternative Life by Vladislav Nenchev |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A two-handed satirical comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Chiropractor Vicki rushes to the chemist to get some medicine for an injured patient. She finds her usual pharmacist has been replaced by homeopathic practitioner Bert, whose suggestions for alternative medicines don't impress her. |
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The Attic Room by Elizabeth Anne Wells |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a single set, an attic in WWII-era Vienna. |
Synopsis | Hanna, a young Jewish girl, hides from the Nazis in the house of an Austrian family. When soldiers begin to search the street, the family rush to decide what is right and wrong. |
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Bad Flatitude by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Intended to be produced with one male actor playing four characters and one female actor doing the same. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short for teens with some dirty humour and a simple (living room) set. |
Synopsis | As another flatmate leaves in a dramatic fashion, the remaining group gloomily discuss the weirdos they’ve had to put up with and wonder who’ll be next. But they haven’t considered their landlord’s plans. |
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Baggy Trousers by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play. |
Synopsis | There's plenty of life left in Sid, although he’s approaching his eightieth birthday. But when Melanie arrives from the Cosy Comfort Care Agency, her blinkered patronising approach forces Sid to re-live scenes from his past. What will it take for Melanie to see - and appreciate - the real man? |
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Carnival by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama, in which the characters are really unsure of their future... |
Synopsis | It's the day before a huge, unstoppable cataclysm. Some are singing, some are crying, some are partying. Moby and Jill are spending the evening with their friends Corinna and Daval. If the world doesn't end tomorrow, it will never be the same - so why not sing and be with your friends? |
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Chances In The Rain by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, with a park setting. |
Synopsis | Edward and Michelle are waiting for their dates in the same park. Both seem to have been stood up, yet they aren't very sympathetic to one another. But there are two other lonely people on hand, and things resolve neatly... eventually. |
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Connie's Kitchen by Maureen Speller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
Synopsis | Connie has lived in the same house since World War Two and has no intention of passing it on to unsuitable occupants, even if it means coming back to haunt the kitchen. Exchanges between a harassed estate agent and Connie’s ghost make for confusion all round. |
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Dance Before Dark by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama with a single, simple setting. |
Synopsis | In a future world Anna has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for insisting that because of human abuse of the planet the world will end when the last leaf falls. Against regulations Robert, her guard, engages in conversation with her and they soon realise that they have more in common than they thought. |
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