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White Lies by Richard James
Production by Alternate Shadows won 1st Place, Best Actress, Best Set at 2016 Duncan Rand One Act Play Festival
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. If necessary, the Waitress could be cast as a waiter.
Run TimeAround 48 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy. Single simple set (so easy to do as a competition piece). Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisFour old University chums meet up again after thirty years for a meal and talk. Bea is concerned only with herself and her own success, and doesn't care about the casual way she has hurt or used the others in the past, and the other ladies decide it's time for payback. But their little revenge stunt goes a little further than they planned.
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Whiz Kids by Geoff Motley
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 55 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleCpmedy play for adults about writing for children. One act by length - a two act play if you count the number of acts! Lots of physical comedy. Single office set (with furniture changes during the play). Contains swearing.
SynopsisGareth, Eddie and Maggie write and draw 'Whiz Kids', an eccentric children's comic initiated by Colonel Cheviot. Now the Colonel has died, and his wife, Lady Hermione is not so indulgent. She installs a new editor and a new coffee machine to keep noses to the grindstone and out of the pub. How will the staff cope with the shock of the new?
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Who Was That by Charlie Cook
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act farce. A fast moving one-act comedy full of mistaken and doubly mistaken identities. Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisWe are fully aware of who Tom, Sylvia, Richard and Harriet are - or is it Harry? - but they are not. We relish their confusion as the merriment gathers speed and they struggle to come to terms with who's who and who is having an affair with whom. The appearance of the unintelligible Michael adds to the misunderstanding but eventually leads to realisation...
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Who's Hamlet by George Freek
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act farce in two acts. (I mean it's in two acts but is relatively short.) A farce, with misunderstandings galore and all the theatrical temperament you could wish for. All this comes with a simple set and small cast.
SynopsisA young actor takes the role of Hamlet from his ageing father.
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A Whole New World by Rebecca Grabill
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future).
SynopsisA 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.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSingle-set one act play. Strong sexual themes and violence.
SynopsisGerald 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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A Widow's Tale - The Story of Ruth by Tim Crooks
RolesMinimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act Play telling the biblical story of Ruth. Simple presentation with no specific set requirements.
SynopsisThe book of Ruth is about a woman who leaves her own country and goes to live in a land with a culture and religion which are not those which she grew up with.
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Wild at Art by Cheryl Barrett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are the members of an over-sixties art class plus their tutor and model.
Run TimeAround 51 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleGentle one-act comedy. Single community centre setting. Originally published 2012, revised 2019.
SynopsisIt's time for a taster session of art at the Prudence Wild Community Centre, and the 'Wild bunch' welcome a new member. They all do their best to make Doris feel welcome as they struggle to capture a likeness of the Queen on their easels.
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Wild Bill's Swan Song by Craig Sandeman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play (with a serious edge). Multiple settings, but one basic set with minimal changes.
SynopsisWild Bill has had a brush with death, and knows he's got a choice - die happy or live miserable. In the time he has left, he has to re-form his stripping group for one last show, and mend the relationship with his daughter and son-in-law.
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Wild Goose by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisDr 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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