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Dawn of Remembrance by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A nicely written single-set short with a good handle on the tragedies of war and how they affect the mind. |
Synopsis | Two soldiers in France, during World War 2, discuss what they have been through and what they miss about home, ruminating on how war has changed them forever. |
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De-Friend by Shari Gledhill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 15-minute monologue with an insightful and humourous take on social media addiction, leading to a nicely grim punchline. |
Synopsis | Brian is a middle-aged man trying to navigate the world of social media. His mood turns from enthusiastic to thrilled to devastated. Someone has de-friended him and he is desperate to work out who it is. |
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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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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Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. |
Synopsis | A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it? |
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Digging up the Past by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute dramatic monologue (featuring some black comedy). |
Synopsis | A building site manager struggles to cope when a body is discovered on school playing fields. When archaeologists turn up to excavate a Saxon burial ground, things take a turn for the worse. |
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Dinner at Luigi's by Brian Coyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (restaurant) setting. |
Synopsis | A mother and her two grown-up children get together for a celebration meal. As dinner is served, the dynamics of their dysfunctional relationship are uncovered and family secrets revealed for the first time. The meal descends into deeper and deeper water. |
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Dirty Prime Minister by Croft & Barnett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with an adult theme, set in an office. |
Synopsis | This is featuring a Prime Minister responding to some terrible accusations in the press, about the nature of his relationship with a 'hoover'. |
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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Do You Remember? by Frances Bartram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] In the original performances, it ran between 25 & 30 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama, with an informal set - furniture and a few props. |
Synopsis | In this poignant examination of the effects of dementia we see Doris, who is not as young as she used to be, descend into a confused world through the eyes of her granddaughter Anna as they relive past events. |
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Don't Touch the King by Anna Russon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Recovering from psychiatric difficulties, Danny finds solace in playing chess with his friend Aiden. As the game progresses, it becomes clear that Aiden is not the person Danny thought he was. |
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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The Donor 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 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only (the park bench again). |
Synopsis | The Donor: Graham is at his mother’s funeral when his ex-wife Cassie makes an appearance, with an unexpected request. |
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