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Caring for Alice by Marc Brosnan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single set. |
Synopsis | Alice is in a care home and she doesn't like it. Her niece comes on a rare visit, asking for financial help and Alice makes a counter-offer - she'll front the money if her niece takes her in. |
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Carrie's Lions by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture. |
Synopsis | Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father. |
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Cell Mates by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (prison cell) setting. |
Synopsis | Young Terry Cole is entering the prison system for the first time. His youthful swagger is tempered by his apprehension about what lies ahead. His meeting with cell mate, murderer George, has a profound effect on him. |
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Change Of Heart by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller. |
Synopsis | A tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her? |
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Checking Out by Jo Chandler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play. |
Synopsis | Single mother Sandra is proud of daughter Kerry Ann's academic success and high flying career, but they are both keeping secrets from each other - with tragic results. |
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Chess as Felony by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Ten in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Convicts Claude Bloodgood and Ram Varadachary take a train with their guard to a chess tournament, but on the train they play a game for high stakes. |
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A Christmas Carol In 60 Minutes Or Less! by Martin Prest |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Various doubling alternatives suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play in various settings. |
Synopsis | Staying as true to the original Dickens story as time allows, it unfolds neatly through narration and action. Originally published in 2014, revised edition published September 2017. |
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Christopher Columbus Was A Brat by Richard Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters comprise of a crusty old hobo and a teenage girl |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy with a hilltop setting. |
Synopsis | CT is on her way to the other side of the mountain. Not to, really, but 'away from'. In her special quiet place she meets a strange man, dressed as a hobo who has some important things to tell her. |
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Cissie Encountering The Gods by Sandra Horn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act monologue. |
Synopsis | Cissie tells us of her life and her strange neighbour Thea. Thea and her daughter Cory have had a big effect on Cissie's life. They bring an interest beyond her brief and boring marriage and the prying eyes of her other neighbours, as well as a genuinely unexpected intimate encounter. |
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Clause Fourteen by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a dressing room set. Part of the 'Illusion/Delusion' trio of plays, which can be bought separately or as a collection. |
Synopsis | Aging actor Clifford finds himself in a hellish situation playing opposite his ex-wife Connie in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. He turns to his agent Katz to get him out of the show but he has signed an unbreakable contract and Katz is more interested in claiming his due. In the ensuing action, Clifford is made to face unpleasant truths about himself and his past relationships and to understand his position in a hell of his own creation. Think Dr Faustus! |
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