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Reading for Pleasure by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short light comedy play with a single domestic setting. |
Synopsis | It's Book club night and host Tina is nervous because she couldn't get through 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'. Fortunately her husband knows it well and writes her notes on some napkins. But she's not the only one who struggled. |
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Soldiers by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short WW1-set drama on a simple set, suitable for adults or teens. |
Synopsis | Three soldiers find themselves in a holding cell as dawn breaks during the First World War: one on a drunk charge, one held for assaulting an officer, and one a conscientious objector. |
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Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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