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Wild Goose by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisDr Doris Boffin has a case that requires the assistance of Inspector Whalley, Constable Hitchcock and criminal profiler Julie Bright - and she won't accept any of their excuses for not helping.
'Wild Goose' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2.
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Window Pain by Patricia Gay
Performance by Buccaneer Theatre won the Douglas Hunter Rose Bowl in the Moray Firth District round of the 2023 SCDA one-act drama festival.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 34 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA bitter sweet comedy with a single setting.
SynopsisBrenda sits at her window, all morning, all afternoon and in the lighter summer evenings. She knows what the neighbours get up to, and all their secrets. But her neighbours have their own stories to tell, and those stories are very different to any of Brenda’s preconceived ideas.
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The Winter's Tale [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The 24 roles could be played by 6M, 4F or 5M, 5F.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy-drama.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.)
SynopsisKing Leontes of Sicilia, suspecting his wife Hermione of cheating on him with the King of Bohemia, has her imprisoned and her newborn baby sent far away. When Hermione dies in custody, Leontes is left without an heir. But fifteen years later in Bohemia, the abandoned princess Perdita has a royal suitor.
(Includes Shakespeare's most famous stage direction.)
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Witch/Ghost by Giles Black
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 42 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy in a single set.
SynopsisGraham just wants to get his presentation sorted, but he's being plagued by the ghost of a genuine witch from the 1600s who wants his help escaping her diabolical contract, and his own diabolical wife whom he can't escape.
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Wood by Pete Benson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSurreal comedy.
SynopsisWoody's got lots of friends and they all like him, even though he's hard to get on with at times. Also, he's a woodlouse. Sadly, he can't swim, and the gasman has just dropped him in the fish tank.
After that, things get stranger.
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Work Experience by Peter Harrison
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 28 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA gentle, enjoyable comedy. Easy to stage (in a single living room set) with a majority female cast.
SynopsisHousewife Melissa is very fond of her daily routine, so when her husband Gerald takes early retirement, she’s increasingly irritated by his disruptions to it. With the help of her friends, she devises a solution which brings her own life-changing experience.
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Working It Out by Cheryl Barrett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play. Set in a pub beer garden, so needs little more than an outdoor table, chairs and a tray of drinks. Contains very mild swearing (and a lot of other things too).
SynopsisA witty look at the lives and loves of twin sisters Andrea and Jane. They work out their weight problems at the gym, much to the embarrassment of Jane's daughter Emma who works there, and then work out their relationship problems at the pub with a post gym drink or two. Joined by husband Tommy, who Jane is convinced is having an affair, recently divorced younger sister Nikki with her supportive friend Cally and just jilted Emma, the family work out and work through their individual difficulties together.
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The World According to Oscar by Bob Hammond
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 57 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA witty comedy, which moves along quickly with a few surprising twists. Single set - an up-market apartment.
SynopsisBurglar Dougan breaks into an upmarket apartment, expecting it to be empty, but Bernard is at home with his mistress Tasha, having forgotten about his wife's birthday party. Dougan offers to help save Bernard's marriage.
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The Wrong Ladder by Jim Pinnock
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play (with some dark moments!) Single set split into two acting areas.
SynopsisLonghurst Ladders are struggling, and Arthur needs to land a big contract to save his company. He's not helped by his secretary, his grasping ex-wife, layabout son and spendthrift daughter. Perhaps a spiritual retreat to Tibet is what he needs?
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Wong Ladder' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Wuthering Heights by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 55 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy with minimal settings, adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
SynopsisA 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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