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| Whiz Kids by Geoff Motley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Cpmedy 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. |
| Synopsis | Gareth, 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 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce. A fast moving one-act comedy full of mistaken and doubly mistaken identities. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | We 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 |
| 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 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. |
| Synopsis | A young actor takes the role of Hamlet from his ageing father. |
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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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| Wild at Art by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gentle one-act comedy. Single community centre setting. Originally published 2012, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | It'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 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (with a serious edge). Multiple settings, but one basic set with minimal changes. |
| Synopsis | Wild 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 |
| 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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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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Winter Tails by Jackie Carreira
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family comedy show with entertainment working at different levels - balancing a series of fables with comedy about the actors presenting them.
Structured in two acts, but with a run-time at the boundary between one-act fplay and a full-length show. |
| Synopsis | Two out-of-work actors and a reality TV star with thespian ambitions are employed to 'improvise' a selection of animal fables, read by a magical storyteller going through the menopause. |
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| The Winter's Tale [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 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.) |
| Synopsis | King 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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