|
Happily Ever Laughter by Keith Mackenzie
Published: 27 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single (office) location. |
| Synopsis | Linda is close to quitting her job as a Wedding Planner, and she's not encouraged to keep going by the ever more eccentric ideas of Olivia. Olivia is determined her wedding to Ben will be memorable, whether he likes it or not. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Gate Thirteen A by Tony Frier
Published: 25 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a single airport set. The sequel to Tony Frier's Gate Thirteen. |
| Synopsis | In the departure lounge of Marrakech airport, Pauline and Derek encounter Julie and Gary, unaware that the couples’ offspring have been dating each other. Derek is suffering from an accidental laxative overdose and his holdall contents have mysteriously been replaced with S&M gear, while Julie and Gary are on the run from their hotel having stolen their towels. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Headcase by Kara Chamberlain
Published: 19 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama. Several settings, which can be produced with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | June, a Canadian woman living in London, has problems piling up - an important presentation at work, a crush on her colleague Brad, and now she’s slept with her flatmate’s brother. Then she has a panic attack, and anxiety takes over all her thoughts. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Page Turners by Gill Medway
Published: 19 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single parish hall set. |
| Synopsis | Seven very different people meet once a month in a village hall for a book group. Organiser Felicity hopes they'll be studying the classics, but also harbours secret plans for a seduction. After a disastrous party, they find themselves exploring love, loss, anger and pride in their own lives. Can they turn a page and move on from the past? Jane Eyre has nothing on this bunch of literary heroes. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Fallen Angel, Risen Demon by Amy Randall
Published: 13 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 59 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (long enough to be split into two parts with an interval if you are so minded). Set split between a nightclub and a coffee bar. |
| Synopsis | Samael seems like a grumpy nightclub owner, but when Maggie says he's been shot, his bar manager is surprised to see him later, alive and well. Maggie goes missing and Samael calls in his friend Asher to help him track her down. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Branwell: The Brontë Brother by Joan Greening
Published: 12 June 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single set. |
| Synopsis | The Brontë Family are in dire straits. Charlotte, Emily and Anne's book of poetry has failed to sell, and their alcoholic, drug-addicted brother Branwell has squandered their money and failed to hold down a job. As Branwell and Emily discuss their situation, they believe they see the ghost of their dead sister Maria, and Branwell has an idea - involving a manor called Wuthering Heights. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Confession by David Weir
Published: 19 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The 9 roles are intended to be played by 3 actors (with Actor 1 playing the teenage Kevin throughout, except when narrating as his adult self). |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Energetic one-act comedy. No formal set, just props. Continuous action with location indicated by Kevin's soliloques. Written in Scotland, but the location can be changed at the discretion of the production. |
| Synopsis | Kevin's a teenager who wants nothing more than to drift through life and the undying love of 'The One And Only Girl In All The World'. But his Uncle Ignatius has different plans - for Kevin to join the priesthood. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
About Life by Rob Ricards
Published: 16 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny one-act play with some dramatic depth. Simple to stage (single set, could be just a table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | Mabel's slobbish, bullying husband Jack has died in the night, and she's glad to be rid of him. Her friend Gladys is initially shocked by Mabel's attitude, but soon joins her in planning what to do with the newfound freedom. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Farewell by David Titchener
Published: 13 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charcter-driven drama in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Brothers Tom and Bill have been running the family funeral home business for years. Now their wayward brother Geoff has turned up again, but this time, he doesn't want money, he wants to rejoin the family. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Good War, Soldier? by Salli Belsham
Published: 8 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, meditating on the first world war, remembrance and the treatment of soldiers. |
| Synopsis | In Westminster Abbey, Rudyard Kipling approaches the grave of the Unknown Soldier. He hopes for news of the whereabouts of the body of his son (who died in WW1), but he finds himself talking to four Unknown Soldiers, who challenge him to reflect on the value of monuments. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|