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| The Rector of Stiffkey by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Essentially, this is a courtroom drama set in the afterlife, with the audience cast as the jury! Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | Harold Davidson has arrived in Limbo, and a lot depends on the nest few minutes - how he accounts for the extraordinary events of his life until his death by mauling will determine where he goes from here. Was he really immoral, or a modern-day saint treated badly by the church?
This is the true story of Harold Davidson known in the 1930s as 'The Rector of Stiffkey'. His unfrocking by the Church of England was a cause celebre but he attained even greater notoriety by later preaching in a lion's den at a circus. |
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The Red Balloon by Damian Trasler
Best Play, GDA Festival 2006
'A breath of fresh air' (competition judge giving 5 awards, Radnor 2010), Performance by Royal Manor Theatre won Best Youth Play at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (bare stage, with a few items of furniture brought on during the piece). Few props. Explores the nature of live theatre! |
| Synopsis | A couple interrupt the premier of a piece of Modern Theatre and claim it's all rubbish. The performer challenges them to produce something better, and the three begin to work on the piece together. What will they come up with by the end of the evening? |
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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers
Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
| Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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Red-Handed by Alan David Pritchard
WINNER, Miracle Makers International Film and Writing Festival, July 2021, Stage Play Category, Las Vegas, USA |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (school store room) set. |
| Synopsis | Four boys sneak into the storage area where the exam papers are filed, but one boy betrays the others and locks them in. The three incarcerated boys must face their own demons as well as their problems with each other. |
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| Refuge by B.J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act drama set in a hotel cleaning cupboard. (The script implies a functioning door, but the effect might be achieved by lighting, minimising the set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | During a terrorist attack on a hotel, guests David and Kate hide together in a cleaning cupboard. |
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Regret Rien by Jackie Carreira
Finalist in the Kenneth Branagh New Drama Award 2012, first performed at the Windsor Fringe Festival as part of that award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama in two minimal scenes, an outdoor café and the top of the Eiffel Tower. |
| Synopsis | Sons Will and Bob accompany their widowed mother Iris to Paris to fulfil their late father's last wishes. Each of them experience much more than expected as old enmities disappear. |
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| A Relaxing Night In by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single living room set and a startling tension running throughout with the expectation of a portentous finale. |
| Synopsis | Cathy and Joe come around to Ian and Stephanie's house to plan the quartet's next holiday together over a take-away supper. The conviviality is interrupted by a visit from Stephanie's work colleague, Jill who bears news of a horrendous accident at work. |
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| Relief by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Black box presentation in which the phases of the play follow the progress of the women's van. Contains swearing and potentially disturbing content. |
| Synopsis | Brenda and Maxine are taking a van-load of medical supplies, food and clothing to a mental asylum for women in an Eastern European country. They argue and struggle on the long and harrowing journey and finally reach an understanding of each other and the nature of helping people. |
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| Remember Scarborough by James Baynes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One M and one F are non-speaking. Second F is small speaking role. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One piece of music is suggested, integral to the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An affecting one act play, largely spoken by a sole actor, with three cameo roles. |
| Synopsis | In a one-sided conversation with his long dead friend, an old man recalls the war years - the excitement, adventure and loss of being an RAF bombardier. The other parts included - two dancers appear briefly, and at the end, the old man's daughter joins him. |
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| Reminiscing by Charles Dennison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, poignant, simply-staged one-act play. |
| Synopsis | From the ease of his favourite armchair, James reminisces with his wife, Jenifer, about their early life together and about their children before their daughter adds a change of perspective. |
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