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Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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The Source Of Denial by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with a minimal set. A combination of comedy, serious argument and an exploration of the writing process. (Is that metadrama? Who knows?) |
Synopsis | Struggling to write a 'proper' play after years of comedies, a writer uses his favourite character to explore faith, proof and truth, only to end up learning more about himself than he expected. |
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The Spartan Conspiracy by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act satire. |
Synopsis | Menelaus, Ulysses and Agamemnon meet with Achilles to discuss the disastrous rise in the price of Olive Oil, instigated by the Trojans. How can they prompt a war with Troy to combat the oil price? Then they send for Helen... |
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The Spasm by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Flexible chorus size |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play in five short acts. |
Synopsis | Based loosely on the short story by Guy de Maupassant, the play explores manservant Prosper's journey to heaven, and his discovery that his heaven may become his hell. |
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Special Occasions by Roger Hodge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play adapted from the middle act of Roger Hodge's full-length Eating Out. |
Synopsis | Three very different couples eat at the same restaurant. It's a special occasion for all of them - or will turn out to be. |
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Spirits of the Age by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play, with a single (multi-functional) set. |
Synopsis | The relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle is examined - through the medium of their investigation of the spirit world and its practitioners, in an intriguingly-staged drama. |
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Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Eight roles but two of them are written to be doubled by specific cast members. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very silly, raucous farce set around a séance. Fun characters, cheeky wit, a lot of physical humour, and some audience interaction. (American English.) |
Synopsis | Madame Sirena prepares to conduct a séance at the mansion of wealthy widower Taffy, who has sworn to bring his late wife's murderer to justice before he remarries - but the clock is ticking for his fiancée, Felicity, who must wed before she turns 30 to claim her inheritance. Meanwhile, escape artist Harry Hugweenie resists the advances of his spirited assistant as he waits on a promised message from the other side. |
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Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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Spoofing For Gordon by Duncan Battman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, with two simple settings and some strong language. |
Synopsis | Ten years ago, a group of friends entered an agreement binding them all to assisted suicide in the event that any of them became terminally ill. Gordon is now in that position, and the friends gather at his house and agonise over their pact. |
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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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