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| 22 Hardcastle Court | Author | Gary Diamond |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are four adults, with a range of ages, and two seventeen-year-olds (who like each other).
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| Run time |
Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act comedy play. Two sets (with the neat conceit that in moving out of her mother's house, Emily takes her sofa with her!), one of which requires a practical door. Contains some bad language (and lots of good language) and mild adult themes.
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When Emily finally manages to move out of her Mother's house, she thinks her worries are over, but thanks to the flat's former owner, she has to contend with mysterious calls from Mr X as well as her mother's interruptions and an amorous pair of students wanting help with their play...
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| A Case of Good Intentions | Author | Peter Stallard |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
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A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone.
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| A Controlling Interest | Author | D.S. Warner |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all young adults.
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| Run time |
Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act drama. Single interior set (could easily be done as a 'black box' presentation).
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Ryan brings his new girlfriend back to the house he shares with his university friends, James and Charlotte, setting off a chain of events with, ultimately, tragic consequences.
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| A Day in the Life | Author | Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages.
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| Run time |
Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun!
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A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch.
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| A Fairy Tale Adventure | Author | Sophia Holder |
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Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
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| Run time |
Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
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The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
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| A Life Sentence Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two. | Author | Mark Seaman |
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Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions.
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A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days.
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| A Little War in Wales | Author | David Adland |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one sixteen-year-old and two twelve-year-old girls.
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| Run time |
Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One-act play - a light romantic drama, with strong period detail. Single set (with separate areas where the action moves between settings).
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Based on real events from the Second World War. German Prisoners of War are sent out to work on farms deep in rural Wales, where the locals have to cope with the POWs, billeted Allied servicemen and wartime shortages.
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| A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical | Author | Sue Gordon |
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Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female!
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| Run time |
Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
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One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences)
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Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it!
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The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| A Man of Quality | Author | Richard Morris |
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Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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One act play, exploring slavery and its abolition in the West Indies. Multiple settings, but suitable for minimal staging, with location changes indicated mainly by lighting.
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A historical drama based on the experiences of Janet Shaw and her father, the English Abolitionist James Shaw. Janet travels to Antigua to see for herself the treatment of slaves on the sugar plantations. She is impressed by the intelligent and gentle Robert, a house slave of her hosts.
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| A Servant Plays for High Stakes | Author | Vithal Rajan |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
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Game Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India.
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