|
A Bouquet For Bethany by Jim Hollingsworth
Published: 28 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The vicar is written male, but could be female (the author suggests a name change for that casting). |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun one-act comedy with good roles from 7 actors and a single interior set. |
| Synopsis | On the eve of her wedding, Bethany sends her brother to buy two bouquets - one for herself and one for their grandmother's grave. But when Ethan lays the wrong bouquet on the grave, he must retrieve it without being mistaken for the local graveyard robber. Matters are complicated by visits from the vicar and the police and Bethany getting drunk on her surprise hen night. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
To Know When My Time Will Come by Tony Frier
Published: 27 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with elements of murder mystery. (The comedy becomes darker as the murder mystery elements are introduced, but it retains its sense of humour and never becomes overly grim.) Single set. |
| Synopsis | Life trundles along at the Sunset Retirement Home - except when it comes to a sudden end. The matron offers residents an unusual bet: she predicts their date of death, and if she's right, she inherits all their wealth. Suspicious newcomer Emily decides to find out what's really going on. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Pussycats by Kathleen Grotzinger
Published: 22 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama offering a thoughtful take on women in a male-dominated workplace, touching on serious issues while never feeling too grim. Well developed characters in a majority female cast. |
| Synopsis | In Missouri in the 1970s, Lori works as a 'Mama Cat' - a manager for the Casanova Club. She's been waiting for her opportunity to break the glass ceiling and become an executive, and that opportunity finally arrives after one of the 'Kittens' is assaulted at a party - but can she bring herself to do everything she's asked? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Priceless by Mary Portalska
Published: 15 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very funny, fast-paced comedy. Simple staging on one set, and a cast of 1M, 3F, 2 either – so easily stageable by most amdram groups. |
| Synopsis | Batley Hall is in desperate need of repairs, and elderly Sylvia refuses to let custodians Tom and Anna sell their one asset, a priceless Ming dynasty vase. Tom hits on the idea of giving guided tours to bring in some money, but their only guests are shady characters with their eyes on the vase, and the hall’s resident ghost only adds to the chaos. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
The Bells of Saint Crispin's by Barry Lambert
Published: 14 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a novel twist. Set in a vicar's study and in two (remarkably similar) pubs, so could be presented in a split set. |
| Synopsis | The vicar's plan to restore the church bells has got some of the inhabitants of West Mottering up in arms, but soon he has more to concern him as his wife collapses. More tragedy follows, but perhaps things aren't what they seem to be? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
A Cabinet Meeting by Seán Lang
Published: 9 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters are written as elderly men, but can be played by actors of any gender. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A small historical backwater provides the backdrop for a moving, compelling drama. One-act play in a single setting (a dining room used for a formal meeting). |
| Synopsis | The President of Poland and his cabinet fled to London after the Nazi occupation. Fifty years later, they are still living in exile, and holding regular meetings, despite having no control over what's going on in their homeland. Some of the ministers believe it is time to end it, but the senile President doesn’t want to move on. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Winter Tails by Jackie Carreira
Published: 7 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family comedy show with entertainment working at different levels - balancing a series of fables with comedy about the actors presenting them.
Structured in two acts, but with a run-time at the boundary between one-act fplay and a full-length show. |
| Synopsis | Two out-of-work actors and a reality TV star with thespian ambitions are employed to 'improvise' a selection of animal fables, read by a magical storyteller going through the menopause. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
The Man From Clerihan by Paul Maher
Published: 2 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy-drama in a single kitchen set. Themes from Chekhov's 'The Bear' elegantly reworked into modern day Ireland. |
| Synopsis | Willie Cleary, a builder, calls on Mary Kate, the young widow of his recently deceased best friend, to collect money that is owing to him. Mary Kate is adamant that she owes him no money, so there is a high stakes stand-off. Mary Kate's fun-loving sister is only too happy to stoke-up the tension in a ferocious battle of wits between a very stubborn man and an equally stubborn woman. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Quadrille by Robert Kibble
Published: 29 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single simple set (the ubiquitous park bench). |
| Synopsis | Andy and Cassie recently met Rich and Yvonne on holiday, and they all began straying away from their partners. Over one afternoon in Green Park, the various relationships meet their resolutions. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Time To Go by Charles Dennison
Published: 25 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in the lounge of a (nursing) care home. A good review of lives lived by those about to leave them.
Written in British English - a slang word for a cigarette might surprise readers and audiences from elsewhere. |
| Synopsis | Alf, Elsie and William are three friends in a retirement home. They swap stories of their lives, until one by one they slip away. Elsie is the last to go, missing her friends and sharing her memories with Mel, their care worker. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|