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Back to the Start by Shari Gledhill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama told with reverse chronology, mainly in a single kitchen set. Contains appropriately adult language. |
Synopsis | Jenny and Martin's relationship is charted from its acrimonious ending back to its optimistic beginning. |
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Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set. |
Synopsis | Jessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts. |
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The Barrier by Neville Judson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Stongly-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. |
Synopsis | Clare 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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Behind Their Eyes by Taylor Seymour |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short two act drama set in a school. |
Synopsis | The hidden personal lives of a group of students at an American High School are brought into the open in this poignant examination of teenagers coming of age. |
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Being Rose by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Requires 5 actresses of varying ages to play the title character. Every male character is intended to be played by the same actor, and every female character (aside from Rose) by the same actress. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play with various settings. |
Synopsis | Rose looks back on her life from old age but as we see her memories replayed before us, differences emerge between her stories and reality. As her confusion increases, a doctor's diagnosis explains all. In this emotional look at the devastating effects of dementia, Rose is able to recollect momentous emotional events in her life which are vividly and evocatively played out on stage. |
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A Bench In The Park by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy thriller. |
Synopsis | Joe'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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Bertha and Hal by Joyce Mulvey |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] In readthrough for the original production (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) it ran to 40 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single domestic setting. Strong character roles for a cast of two. (US English.) |
Synopsis | Hal 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 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama for two actors on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Peter 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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Broken by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The 2 male roles are very minor. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller, with a single - old dining room - setting. |
Synopsis | Lucy receives a mysterious email inviting her to a house that turns out to have been abandoned for years. Waiting there is her former mother-in-law, who still blames Lucy for the death of her son. But there are more surprises to come... |
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A Bump In The Night by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jen and Jacob are in bed when they hear noises downstairs. Jen wants Jacob to investigate, but he's not keen. They trade visions of a future if the burglars turn nasty, but the noises are made by Gladys - who brings a very different perspective. This play deals with the issue of underage sex, child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. |
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