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Within Required Parameters by Kelly Read
Production by Woodhouse Players won the 'Best Stage Presentation' award at the 2014 Waltham Forest Festival of Drama. |
| 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 plus an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in the side-room of a hospital ward. |
| Synopsis | Martin is in hospital, awaiting surgery that will prevent another heart attack, but he's more worried about his wife. She has Alzheimer's, and his niece is trying to look after her. He needs his operation, and he needs to get home, but there's a problem with his insurance... |
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Work in Progress by Damian Trasler
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2000, and Winner of the Adjudicator's Award, Anglesey Drama Festival 2005. |
| 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 | Single set, argument amongst Film Noir characters and their writer! |
| Synopsis | An author struggles to complete a book, contending with his publishing deadline and a group of characters determined to assert their identity. |
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| Working Man by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principals (including one child) plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script is accompanied by piano and vocal scores for one instrumental and six songs. |
| Style | Full-length musical play inspired by the paintings of Alexander Millar, set on Tyneside in the heyday of the shipyards. |
| Synopsis | Johnson's shipyard is under new management, but the new boss is unpopular - he's stopped the beer allowance, for one thing. The men strike, but are sacked. They need to find a better way to get him to change his mind. What about going back to workwithout pay? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks for the opening instrumental and six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Opening instrumental and vocal demo tracks for the six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Ten high resolution images of paintings from the Working Man collection by Alexander Millar for projection during performances of Working Man by Peter Nuttall
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| The Worst Day of My Life by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there are only four named characters, the setting is a classroom, so there is an option for extras as 'other members of the class' |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Zoe isn't having a good day, what with her brother, her diet and then her ruined German homework, but it turns out her day isn't half as bad as her classmate Holly's. |
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| The Wow Factor by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for youth theatre or schools.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Two officials conduct an unusual interview with a newly-arrived alien... |
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| Wuthering Heights by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with minimal settings, adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. |
| Synopsis | A duo of comic narrators guide us through the familiar story including all of the important characters with the exception of Heathcliff who unfortunately could not attend. His last minute replacement - Tarzan! - admirably fills his shoes. |
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| Yes, but how was the play, Mrs Lincoln? 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Philosophical argument, set in a scrap yard! Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Does happiness come from going out and getting experiences or from appreciating what you have? (Or, come to that, from finding a distributor for a 1985 Ford Fiesta?) |
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| You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
| Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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| You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop. |
| Synopsis | Kevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day. |
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| Young Tommy Atkins by Jon Tilley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character ages of 17 and 27, but could be played by younger ages. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (World War One trench) set. |
| Synopsis | Three young soldiers, Harry a famous footballer in civvy street , new recruit Tommy and their officer Captain Jackson are pinned down in an abandoned First World War trench for several hours. Their relationship develops until the final poignant moments. |
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