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| The Observer by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are two middle-aged men and a boy in his late teens who suffers from the form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A terrific, three handed one-act play. In theory, there are two sets, but one is a single scene in a cinema, which could be indicated by a couple of chairs and appropriate lighting. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | George and Mike are the old guard of a paper being revamped. Editor George has been told that Mike must move from News to Features. Can the old News Hound pull one more exclusive out of the bag to save his career? |
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Odd Ball by Steve Menary
Perfomance by Berriew YFC won the Best Production (plus two other awards) in the NFYFC National Finals, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. It would be possible to double Scott with The Spot, but that would require rapid changes, so would need a lot of thought to go into the costumes. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play about a teenager with testicular cancer. Rapid alternation of scenes implies an outline set, rather than detail - thus suitable as a festival piece. Contains mild swearing and discussion of a serious subject! |
| Synopsis | Danny is a football player on his school team, but he's got a secret - something like a spot in a very private place. It turns out to be a lot more serious than acne, and costs him his place on the team, and the friendship of his closest mate. Are they both gone forever?
(The script is in British English, so 'football' refers to a game in which the ball is addressed principally by the players' feet.) |
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| Odd Socks by Emily Hastings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single living-room setting. Some adult content. |
| Synopsis | Daisy visits Chloe to share family memories. Their perspectives of the same events seem very different. |
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| On Reflection by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | An intriguing story of love, hate and revenge as we see womanising, wife beating vicar James being shown the reality of his life by his dead wife Sue and son Michael. Sue believes that as an eighteenth birthday present for him she has brought son Michael to meet the father he has never seen. Their motives for their visit from the spirit world are gradually revealed as Sue learns the futility of hate and revenge and that tormenting James may not give her the fulfilment she desires. The reality of the nature of Michael's spirit comes as a shock for Sue as well as for James as he reveals that he is not all he seems... |
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| On The Street by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gritty one-act drama set amongst a bunch of homeless people. Single (minimal) set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Six characters share an area of street, making a small cardboard encampment. They discuss whether they should move on, then band together against the violent member of the group, showing that, even if society has turned its back on them, they are there for each other. |
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One Mistake by Stephen Scheurer-Smith
Winner of Cambridge Drama Festival 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play Psychic Babble. |
| Synopsis | An alcoholic has-been pop star is on the road with her daughter reluctantly in tow. They're the last ones in the hotel bar, but the bartender, a former City high-flyer, has a surprising past of his own. |
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| Open the Book by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The demons' lines are split between three characters, but only to indicate there are several demons. They could be shared amongst as many demons as you have available. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama - or possibly a modern melodrama - for youth theatre. Two locations, but no set required. (British English - including slang for 'cigarette'.) |
| Synopsis | The seven deadly sins are represented in the characters of the members of a theatre company rehearsing 'Faust'. Director Matt is the worst offender and is drawn into the grasp of Lucifer by a group of demons. |
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An Order of Lunacy by Paul Adam Levy
Won Best Unpublished Play at the Isle of Man Theatre Festival, 2018. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with two settings on one stage. |
| Synopsis | In nineteenth-century England, two mad-doctors assess the Wright sisters, potential patients, under the lunacy laws. Most at risk under these laws were wealthy eccentrics and women, who could be sent to asylums if they proved inconvenient or deviated from the social norms. Will the doctors make judgements based on their own morals, or are they nothing but profiteers? |
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| Othello In Hell by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play based on the Shakespeare classic. |
| Synopsis | Trapped in an invisible prison, the spirit of Othello is tormented by his own memories and visions of those he has known in life. He seems doomed to repeat a cycle of regret and blame and rage, even when granted Desdemona’s forgiveness. |
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| Our Julie's Big Day by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | It is the morning of Julie's wedding day. Her older female relatives fuss around her as they help her get ready for the big event when Julie drops the bombshell that she is having serious second thoughts. In describing the trials and tribulations of their own marriages Mum, Aunts and Granny strangely make up her mind for her. |
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