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Scripts 1061 to 1070 of 1090
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Wilfred and Len by Stephen Mercer
Winner Cheltenham One Act Festival 2006
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 39 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama, with a single (railway station platform) setting.
SynopsisIt is November 1918 and the Great War is about to end. A young soldier waiting for his train is joined by poet Major Wilfred Owen. They have a deep conversation about their army experiences and the war, but all is not as it seems...
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Will's Women by Louise Wade
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort one-act play. Single set.
SynopsisHard 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.
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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Witch/Ghost by Giles Black
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 42 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy in a single set.
SynopsisGraham just wants to get his presentation sorted, but he's being plagued by the ghost of a genuine witch from the 1600s who wants his help escaping her diabolical contract, and his own diabolical wife whom he can't escape.
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With Friends Like These... by Pat Baker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The setting is a school re-union, so whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be other actors milling-about, doing whatever it is people do at school re-unions.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act murder mystery play. Single set (school hall with no specific features). Contains mild swearing. (Also contains murder.)
SynopsisA bunch of old classmates meet at a school reunion. Classmates, but not necessarily friends. Everyone seems to hold a grudge against Carol, but whose thoughts have turned to murder?
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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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Without Trace by Mark Seaman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act thriller with adult themes.
SynopsisSixteen year old Amy Mason is missing from her family home. Her parents, Claire and Brian, are discussing Amy's disappearance and their relationship with her as they wait for the police to arrive. Is it just the rebellion of a frustrated teenager that has led to Amy leaving, or is there a more sinister reason for her disappearance?
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Wood by Pete Benson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSurreal comedy.
SynopsisWoody's got lots of friends and they all like him, even though he's hard to get on with at times. Also, he's a woodlouse. Sadly, he can't swim, and the gasman has just dropped him in the fish tank.
After that, things get stranger.
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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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