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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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Within Required Parameters by Kelly Read
Production by Woodhouse Players won the 'Best Stage Presentation' award at the 2014 Waltham Forest Festival of Drama.
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 48 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama set in the side-room of a hospital ward.
SynopsisMartin 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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Wordsworth's Harem by Joan Greening
New
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act historical, emotional drama in a single livingroom set.
SynopsisIn 1801, William Wordsworth is in love with his sister Dorothy. To hide their forbidden relationship, the siblings plan a marriage for William.
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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.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSingle set, argument amongst Film Noir characters and their writer!
SynopsisAn 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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Writes And Wrongs by Andy Taylor
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama in a single (living room) set.
SynopsisDavid is attending a local writers' group for the first time, and he's nervous. He's joined to meet Pauline, a published poet, but it's not really her literary abilities that are making him stammer.
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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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You And Me Makes Three by Mark Seaman
Performance by The Sodbury Players Drama Group picked-up the adjudicator's award at the Avon Festival and the Best Actor award at The Cheltenham Festival, 2010
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleEmotionally-charged one-act play. Single domestic set.
SynopsisPaul and Kathy have just returned from Tony's funeral. Though remaining outwardly happy with one another, Kathy remembers the brief affair she had with Tony that might have made him the father of her dead child, and Paul remembers cutting Tony out of their lives, and regrets it.
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You Just Never Know by Liz Dobson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The two police officers could be male or female
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleDrama in a single (living-room) set. Structurally in three acts - but in run-time on the borderline between a one act play and full length.
SynopsisWhen Mo decides to surprise her husband with an anniversary party, little does she know that she will be the one left speechless and horrified. But the story doesn’t end there, because no-one could have predicted what happened next...
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