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| The Golf War Widows by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (a bar), modern realism, analysis of character, behaviour and relationships |
| Synopsis | Three women meet behind the scenes at a corporate Golf Tournament. Theresa is a wife who has built her own business in response to her husband's obsession with work and her own fading looks. Dotty has brought up a family despite the disinterest of her husband and Rachel... became a crime-fighter. |
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| Good For Something by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both in their seventies |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, set in a center for the retired. |
| Synopsis | Lizzie and Max meet regularly for a game of checkers during which they come closer together and are able to confide in and advise each other. |
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| The Good Old Days? by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Care Home manager can be m or f. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single, Care Home lounge, setting. |
| Synopsis | Based on actual events, we see care home resident Ada relate her personal history to the rather flippant young cub reporter Claire, who at first is there on sufferance. As Ada's tragic story enfolds, Claire becomes increasingly interested and empathetic, and realises that her naïve impression of the old days belies the inherent prejudices which existed to shape and ruin people's lives. |
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| Grace - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single domestic set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Grace is sorting through the detritus of her life, and holds a rambling conversation with the audience about the people and places she has known. We finally come round with her to the realisation that her husband has died and she is packing up the house ready to sell. |
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Grave Matters by Peter Stallard
Production by Carbost Village Drama Group garnered two trophies (Best Stage Presentation and Best Actor) at the Skye One Act Drama Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Grave Warden is written male, but could easily be played female. The two female parts could, conceivably, be doubled, but the effect of Mrs. Roberts' final entrance would probably be better with more time for make-up! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ghost story told as a humorous one-act play. Single graveyard set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | A magistrate and a Police Sergeant stole a valuable chalice and hid the theft under the cover of arson committed by a local troublemaker. Now their souls are bound to the churchyard until they can restore the chalice. |
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| Grecian Cat by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A snappy short play about four twenty-somethings. One set (the kitchens of two adjoining apartments). |
| Synopsis | Amber's Grecian cat figurine guards the front of her apartment and she believes it guards her fortune too, so when her new neighbour crushes it with his car, she wants revenge. The two adversaries and their roommates learn a lot about each other and themselves. |
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Guernica Goodbye by William Campbell
A production by Progress Theatre won three awards at the Henley-on-Thames Drama Festival, including best production. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, with an imaginative living room set. |
| Synopsis | A powerful drama - in which Spanish refugees from the Guernica bombings, having settled in Chartres, find themselves once again embroiled in further conflict against Fascists. War torn France has been liberated, and recriminations and revenge are already setting in. |
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| The Guests by Carolyn Drury |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Feeling the financial pinch after a generous Christmas, pensioner and former child movie star Mary opens her house to some visiting actors. Two are pleasant enough characters, but Louise is more of a handful. |
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| Guidance by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat one-act play in the best tradition of the British sexy farce. Three doors, two sofas, that sort of thing. Contains adult themes (such as marriage and disagreement!) |
| Synopsis | A married couple involved in an almighty row prove to be Marriage Guidance Counsellors. Their next clients are due but are they in any condition to help? |
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| The Happiest Day of Your Life by Stephen Gillard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters have a playing age of around thirty. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sharply witty one act play. Simple set, divided into two separate areas. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | This is supposed to be the happiest day of bride Laurie's life but her pre-wedding nerves are giving her cold feet and she has to enlist the good sense of her bridesmaid Eliza to crystallise her thoughts about the giant step she is about to take. Little does she know that her groom Issac and his best man Will are also going through exactly the same process. We witness, with a smile on our lips, the agonisings and frustrations of the situation all four of the friends have to deal with. |
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