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| Macbeth [a 60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare abridged by Dwayne Lawler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Witches, prophesies, murders, battles and ghosts. Shakespeare's Macbeth compressed to the compass of a small cast. |
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| The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Optional female chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations, but simple set requirements, with main scenes played on the full stage and smaller scenes downstage with a few pieces of furniture. |
| Synopsis | In 1946, teenage Nancy tracks down her birth mother Mary to one of the many 'Magdalen laundries' set up in Ireland to house women shunned by society for unmarried pregnancies. But why doesn't Mary want to leave with Nancy? Sixteen years earlier, during Mary's first days at the laundry, she and the other women deal with isolation, pregnancies, and mistreatment from the nuns and priests. |
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| A Man of Quality by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | 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. |
| Synopsis | 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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| Market Value by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Neat, short, one-act play with a well-twisted plot. Single set that can be as simple as you like. |
| Synopsis | Martin Oaks is a con man, relying on his Solicitors to keep himself out of jail. His latest plan is to sell a rat-trap of a house for a quarter of a million to an unsuspecting couple who don't know it's falling down and about to be on a major road route. Or so he thinks... |
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| Marlowe's Revenge by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a secondary school or youth theatre group. The group are preparing to stage a play, so it's essentially a bare-stage production (with an offstage special effect). |
| Synopsis | A group of actors from a Boys' School are taking their production of Dr Faustus to a nearby Girls' School. With the lead actor off due to a broken leg, his understudy is unsure of the part, and some of the girls are more interested in the boys than the play. |
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| Mary Anning: Lost in Time by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama. Structurally in two acts, but on the boundary between one-act and two-act length.
Dorset rocks. |
| Synopsis | Nineteenth-century palaeontologist Mary Anning is dying of breast cancer. Under the care of a local woman, she takes laudanum for pain relief, which induces hallucinations that cause her to reflect on her past and her struggle to make a name for herself in a man’s world. |
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| The Match Girl Controversy by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
| Synopsis | Discussions about the new 'Seasonal School presentation' get heated. An Advent-themed play. |
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| The Match Girl's New Year's Eve by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The cook is written male, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools, based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
| Synopsis | A friend, a cook, two nutcrackers and grandmother of course, drop in to make the little match girl's New Year's Eve warm and bright. |
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| A May Dream by Sally Kinnell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. In addition to the 32 human roles (playable by a cast of 14) there is Crumble the Dog who can double as Starveling's Dog. There are two brief (silent) appreances of children ('School Boy' and 'Child' who could probably be doubled). |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations but simple settings. Contains mild (Shakespearean) swearing. |
| Synopsis | A collection of Shakespeare's Rustics pursue their own plotlines outside their plays, converging on Hecate's shop and Doll Tearsheet's bar. Philosophy, love, conspiracy and the unmasking of a villain, in genuine Shakespearian language.
A May Dream was specially written in response to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages Project in 2012. |
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| The Mayor's Christmas Masquerade by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play based on Mary E. Wilkins's The Christmas Masquerade |
| Synopsis | The Mayor is throwing a masquerade party for the children of the town at Christmas, and a new Costumer has provided costumes for all the children. However, when the party is over, the costumes won’t come off. The Costumer has demands to make of the Mayor, or the kids stay Princesses forever. |
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