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12hr Life by Robert Scott
People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2017
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama for a cast of two and a minimalist setting.
SynopsisDylan should be going to a conference, but a chance encounter with Samantha and some forthright discussion, and he's playing truant and having the time of his life. Is it possible to live a life in one day?
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The Act Of Living by Robert Scott
Best Seller
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Evelyn doubles - as Sophie.
Run TimeAround 49 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama, moving through different eras, with a minimal (park bench) set.
SynopsisTom and Evelyn met when they were children during the war, and their relationship grew and changed. As an old man, Tom looks back across the years to re-live their time together.
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After Esme by Kathryn West
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy for a female cast, set in three cafes and in the vicinity of a secluded bench. (So a single set with a variety of set dressing.)
SynopsisAlice, Jenny and Pauline get together for regular catch-ups, though they have a habit of getting kicked out of restaurants - and there's someone missing. Each of the women reconciles in their own way with the loss of their friend Esme.
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Bags And Browning by Liz Carroll
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 47 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama with a single setting.
SynopsisMary is a homeless woman known as the Bard of the South Bank for her recitations of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Browning. But someone has heard she might have a valuable manuscript, and is willing to kill for it
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A Bench In The Park by Robin Wilson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy thriller.
SynopsisJoe's bed is a park bench, which - during the day, is used by a number of seemingly unconnected people. As conversations unfold, their relationships with each other and with Joe take a surprising twist.
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Daddy's Day by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy on a simple park bench set.
SynopsisThree men meet in the park where they are watching over the children they’re responsible for. Talk turns to the lives they lead, and they decide to try and meet up for a day without kids. It does not go as expected.
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Do You Come Here Often by Richard Hills
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play, requiring little more than a bench. (Oh, all right, some actors as well.)
SynopsisTwo men meet when they both retreat from their wives to a peaceful bench. They swap tales of woe, then retire to the pub just before their wives enter and give each other the other side of the story. Domestic bliss!
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Gerald's Bench by Allan Williams
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama with a single (park bench) setting.
SynopsisTwo men - Gerald and Daniel, meet in a park. Neither are what they appear to be. The park bench is home to Gerald, but he has an unusual reason for being there which involves the unsuspecting Daniel.
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Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English.
SynopsisYoung mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece.
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Not In My Lunch Hour by Amir Rahimzadeh
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act adult comedy. (First published in August 2013, Revised edition in March 2014.)
SynopsisLewis hopes for a peaceful time to enjoy his sandwiches in the park, but his idyll is irritatingly cut short by the intrusion of the peculiar Otto followed by the mysterious Jo. This is a lunch break Lewis is not going to forget.
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