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Where There's Blame by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, minimal set requirements, simple props, three strong characters and an involving story. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Lennie is fronting an accident claim company to raise money for his property speculating in Spain, Tina's waiting for Kevin to bring her some money for the week's shopping, but he's got caught up with Lennie's pie in the sky. |
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Where's George by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Character ages range from thirties to eighties. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set (living room). Contemporary realism. |
Synopsis | It's Sunday afternoon. Arthur and Vera face the weekly ordeal of tea with Vera's mother, the fearsome Rose, and her carer-son, Edward. Rose is awaiting the arrival of her favourite son, George, but Edward has other surprises in store. |
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Where's Nigel by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some non-speaking roles essential to the play. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce. |
Synopsis | A group of friends meet for a party at Nigel and Stephanie's house. Events take an unusual turn as the services of a doctor and the police are needed as identities become confused and people are not who they seem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Where's Nigel?' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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A Whole New World by Rebecca Grabill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words! |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future). |
Synopsis | A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it's lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end. |
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The Whore's Tale by Archie Wilson Performance by Oxted Players won best actor, best actress and best director at the Southern Counties drama festival, 2014. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single-set one act play. Strong sexual themes and violence. |
Synopsis | Gerald pays a call to Mandy, a prostitute, asking for her to play a special game. However, we quickly find out that neither Mandy nor Gerald are who they seem to be, but then the game is not what we think it is either. A twist-in-the-tale three hander. |
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Wild Goose by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Dr 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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Will's Women by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. Single set. |
Synopsis | Hard at work on his new tragedy about a certain Scotsman, Will Shakespeare is visited by four women from the play, and they're not at all happy with him. They have something to say about the violence and negative portrayal of women. |
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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. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A bitter sweet comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Brenda 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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Work Experience by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gentle, enjoyable comedy. Easy to stage (in a single living room set) with a majority female cast. |
Synopsis | Housewife 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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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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