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Rising Blue by Jason Jawando |
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 | A one act play in a single setting. |
Synopsis | Margaret Thatcher joins Brian Clough in the waiting room for heaven, with predictable yet productive abrasiveness from both. |
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Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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Samaritans, Can I Help You? by Brendan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, dealing with a disturbing subject. Single simple set, simple props. Contains swearing and sexual themes. |
Synopsis | A man in torment over a love affair calls the one organisation he feels might listen without prejudice. |
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Scene Six by Andrew McGuirk |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The 'director' is an offstage voice and could be doubled by 'David'. The characters appear in a flashback as their childhood selves. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Character drama with plenty of acting challenges. Structured in two acts, but, at around 55 minutes, of one-act length. (Includes some swearing.) |
Synopsis | Two old friends and a new acquaintance decide to put on a play, but the assigned parts, emotional attachments, and the ruthlessness of the director cause rifts between the three. |
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Sealed With A Loving Kiss by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, single cottage living-room set. |
Synopsis | Don arrives on Jill's doorstep twenty one years after their relationship ended. Can he explain why he never came back from the army? |
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The Second Floor by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | Chloe is a powerful businesswoman with a sharp tongue - she’s going to set the board straight before tearing through the rest of her appointments. But she ends up stuck in the elevator with her ex-husband, who has some important things to tell her. |
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The Secret Testament of John Shakespeare by Martin Lytton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single set. Lots of historical detail amidst a passionate story. |
Synopsis | William Shakespeare's wife drops in on her in-laws to mind her Father-in-Law while his wife visits a friend. The Informer James Langrake, who was responsible for the fall in Shakespeare senior's fortunes, calls in unannounced and nearly finds evidence to bring death to the household. |
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Seven Ages of Love by Robert Burns |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play with an interesting structure. (As our reviewer remarked, 'It's what you'd get if MC Escher was a playwright'.) Several locations, but can be done with indicative sets. Contains a mild swearword. |
Synopsis | Mike's written a play about his failed love, telling the story in reverse for the benefit of his friend Phil. If you run a sad love story backwards, you end up with a happy ending, don't you? |
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Silver Linings by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | A young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself. |
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Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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