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Waiting in Soho by Christopher Morgan
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act play with a single bar-room set. An ensemble piece with seven overlapping stories. Contains a range of adult themes.
SynopsisA disparate group are sharing space in a Soho bar at the weekend - their only common ground. Through voicing streams of overlapping thoughts, they open up and reveal the experiences that brought them to where they are.
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Warm Crayons by Ashley Harris
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 27 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act drama on a simple set.
SynopsisMr Hughes doesn't have the greatest patience as a schoolteacher but he does love his job. A routine student prank seems to be the trigger for a vile and immoral act. Is Hughes innocent or has he been hiding his evil ways all along? Warm Crayons questions the way the world looks upon physical and sexual abuse.
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Warm, Hot, Getting Hotter by Lou Treleaven
Winner, Wimbledon Playfest 2014
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 27 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy, with a strange restaurant setting.
SynopsisIt gradually becomes clear that the oddly decorated restaurant, the strange waiter, and the very hot food are not what they seem... Each of these diners has a past that they may really be regretting.
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Watch Your Back by Liz Dobson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Barlow is a male voice on a telephone speaker and might be doubled (or, possibly, recorded).
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy. Single 1970s office set.
SynopsisThis takes us back to a typical typing pool in 1972, where lecherous Head of the Accounts Department, Mr.Crawley, known as Creepy Crawley to the girls in the office, rules the roost. Supervisor Marjorie is frustrated in her attempts to shelter her girls, Gill and Sally, from his sexist antics until newcomer Helen presents her with a delicious opportunity to make sure that Mr. Crawley gets his just desserts.
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Watt's Cooking by Raymond Blakesley
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 31 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama for children to perform, with simple sets.
SynopsisRecalcitrant child Edna's nature is transformed - when she is sent away to live with mean old pie maker Mrs Watts, who grants Edna's wish to have her name changed to Goldilox. She is successful in persuading the Bear family to enjoy fruit and vegetables rather than meat, but the sting in the tail hints of a grisly end for Mrs Watts.
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Way Off Course by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate.
Run TimeAround 29 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisInspector Whalley and colleagues investigate the iniquities of a team-building course - and win the gratitude of the boss into the bargain.
'Way Off Course' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2.
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We're All Dead by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed (by Precipice Productions) at Stockwell Playhouse's 2019 One Act Playwriting Festival in London where it received a 'Highly Commended' award.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two of the male characters should look alike.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act ghostly drama with multiple settings (arranged by the actors). With adult themes and strong language.
First published in 2013, revised edition published 2019.
SynopsisWith time shifting between the present day and 1973, Russ and Rachel experience life changing events brought about by Russ's encounter with his younger self.
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Wedding Day by John F. Glen
Performance by Thurso Players won two trophies and came second overall in the SCDA Caithness Adult Festival of One Act Plays, Feb 2008
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Range of ages - three adult generations of one family.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play. Simple set (two pieces of furniture - so easy to stage as a competition piece). Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisAnnie, elderly matriarch of a family, looks back on a long life on the day her granddaughter gets married. She recalls the wedding of her daughter and her own wedding day, as well as some sadder memories.
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Weir of Hermiston by David McVey from Robert Louis Stevenson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Characters are adults, plus one boy with a playing age of around 10, as the young Archie Weir. The chorus (non-speaking townspeople, servants, etc.) is optional.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama, focusing on the relationship between Archie Weir and his tyrannical father. Adapted from an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Uses broad Scots (though omitting the less fathomable language from Stevenson's draft.)
SynopsisArchie Weir is the son of the Lord Justice Clerk and in training to be a lawyer himself, though he is fearful of his hard father. Following advice from a family friend, Archie watches a trial held by his father and is horrified at the old man's apparent glee at hanging the poor wretch. He speaks out in public against the death penalty and is exiled to the family's country estate.
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Welcome Home by Roger Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act drama, with a single setting and some strong language.
SynopsisJimmy is finally out of prison, having served twenty years for murdering his wife's lover. He returns to his old house to face his son, where he expects and receives a hostile reception.
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