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Criss Cross by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single, untidy living room set. (Includes discussions of self-harm.) |
Synopsis | Donna's worried about her son Jamie. Since his father died, he's been moody and quiet, even for a teenage boy, and she's found blood on the bedsheets in his room. She's learned a little about self-harm from the internet, but she has to find the courage to face him. |
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Frogs by Karen Ankers Production by Port Macquarie players won Best Male Actor (John Hincks) at Port Macquarie One Act Festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Emotive one-act drama in a single living room set. |
Synopsis | Gerald is suffering from dementia, and Dorothy is struggling to cope. They're expecting David, Gerald's son, to call around, but Gerald is having a bad day. Dorothy tries to keep him under control while worrying about the future and her own safety. |
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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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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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Seeing Red by Karen Ankers Production by Dingwall Players won Best Play, SCDA One Act Festival (Moray Firth District) 2019 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with humorous undertones, with a single, park bench setting. |
Synopsis | With a strong touch of satire, we find Nellie brazenly committing the supposed heinous offence of knitting. Young Belinda is horrified as she discovers Nellie openly and defiantly knitting in such a public place... but is liberated as Nellie's past experiences come to light. |
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Still Life by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two teenage lads. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Simple (street) setting. Contains swearing (and poignancy.) |
Synopsis | A moving, thought provoking one act play with a modern tale of two social misfits coming together and each, in their own way supporting the other. Jenny is lonely and frightened having had no social contact since her childhood, not having left the house she shares with her abusive father for over twenty years. She has suffered a final trauma at home and in her despair wanders the streets where she encounters Keith, a bitter unemployed alcoholic trying to eke a living as a street entertainer. As an uplifting, at first reluctant, relationship develops between them an optimistic chink throws light on their despondency. |
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