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Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set. |
Synopsis | The story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.) |
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Playing Out by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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Politically Correct by Jennifer Marie Sancho Runner-up in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The four female characters are intended to be accurate representations of historical people. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act drama with a single 'common room' setting. |
Synopsis | Four inmates of an assylum rebel. Jane Austen, Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and Florence Nightingale must work together to agree a plan to escape from their incarceration. |
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The Pop Man by David Titchener Performances by Tomorrow Productions won awards for Best All-Male Cast & Best Male Performance (Tamworth Hastilow Drama Festival, 2008) and Best Original Play (BFame AETF Festival, 2008) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (In the original production, part of the run time came from the actors playing darts.) |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, with a simple - bar - setting. |
Synopsis | Two friends in a pub talk over old times, and one admits something that's been bothering him a lot - is the man he remembers as his dad ACTUALLY his father? Or was it someone else? |
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Pride and Prejudice - Stage Adaptation by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Novel. (A three-volume novel thoroughly distilled to become a 45 minute play!) No specific set requirements, apart from six chairs. |
Synopsis | Elizabeth Bennet wishes to marry for love, whilst her parents and suitors see the matter entirely in terms of wealth and status. Then there's Mr. Darcy, whom Elizabeth keeps at more than arm's length for his rudeness and arrogance. Will there ever be a match? |
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Princess Bigfoot by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act family play, based on real characters circa 750 AD (though incorporating folk tales). |
Synopsis | In 8th Century France an identity theft scheme to usurp the Princess Bertha from her position as the wife of King Pepin is thwarted by that famous pair of investigators: Messrs Hercule and Poirot - as well as by the Princess’s shoe size. |
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Problem In Judaea by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play. Structurally in two acts, but of one act length. Three sets, but designed for minimal staging. |
Synopsis | A minimalist retelling of the events surrounding the Crucifixion, told from the point of view of Pilate, the Sanhedrin and Herod. |
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The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy play |
Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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Raw Materials by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama for a cast of two. Simple set - essentially a desk and a pile of rags! |
Synopsis | John Brown speaks of his troubles trying to get his memoirs of Robert Blincoe, a boy who worked in the cotton mills, published. Robert tells his own story and explains what happened to John Brown himself after three years of failure. A window onto the industrial revolution. |
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