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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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Accident of Birth by Trevor Suthers
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two speaking characters and one optional non-speaking character.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play on a single (interview room) set.
SynopsisAnthony, a patient/inmate in Broadmoor, confronts his birth mother in an attempt to discover the cause of his insanity.
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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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All Washed Up by Robin Wilson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 43 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA single set, one act play.
SynopsisThree survivors of a light plane crash are stranded on a tiny island. Walter is calm but concerned, Susan is desperate to escape, and Lucy seems to have no idea what's going on. She says Harry will rescue them, but where - and who - is Harry?
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Arrival by Stephen Scheurer-Smith
Best Stage Presentation Cambridge Drama Festival 2011 Production by Waterbeach Community Players
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama fuelled by family tensions.
SynopsisKevin and Anne return from an evening function to find Anne's brother asleep in the back garden. When a young policewoman arrives on the scene her subsequent questioning exposes dark secrets in their seemingly settled lives.
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Aspects of a Betrayal by David Pollard
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One character is gender non-specific and voice only.
Run TimeAround 27 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act drama on a drawing room set. Part of the 'Illusion/Delusion' trio of plays, which can be bought separately or as a collection.
SynopsisDolly is visited by Tom, an old colleague of ler late husband Travis, who was a spy. The scandal which surrounded Travis’ defection fatally damaged Tom’s career and marriage. It becomes apparent that Tom is in fact spying on Dolly and that his past and present friendship has been nothing but a cover. At first devastated by yet another act of betrayal, Dolly sees the triviality of the whole process. At the close, she and Tom listen to Travis’ tawdry funeral as it is broadcast from St Petersburg.
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The Barrier by Neville Judson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleStongly-written one-act drama set in the 1990s in a single guest-house setting. Contains adult themes, with meaty material to the actors as the two couples explore very different attitudes towards sexuality.
SynopsisClare and Graham arrive for a weekend in Tenby when they bump into old friends Marjorie and Richard. But Richard has refused to speak to Graham since a falling-out twenty-five years ago. The women are shocked to discover the reason.
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Bertha and Hal by Joyce Mulvey
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and a radio announcer who may be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 32 minutes. [Estimated!] In readthrough for the original production (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) it ran to 40 minutes.
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama in a single domestic setting. Strong character roles for a cast of two. (US English.)
SynopsisHal drops by his mother's home, but he hasn't brought his baby son to visit, as Bertha was hoping. Instead he has painful news to impart that will make her reconsider her attitude to her son and his wife.
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Beyond the White Noise by Steven A. Shapiro
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 28 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act drama for two actors on a simple set.
SynopsisPeter is waiting to meet his new therapist, but another patient in the waiting room is insistent on talking to him. The two souls work out their issues.
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Birthright by Christine Steenfeldt
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 22 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play in a single setting.
SynopsisAn original storyline suggesting a question mark over Shakespeare's birthplace in a short dramatic comedy, with a twisting plot!
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