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Life in the Cloud by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Palace Players - Winner Ballincollig Drama Festival 2022 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single living room set. The sci-fi-esque idea of a dead man's consciousness stored in the cloud is used for an engaging exploration of grief and moving on. |
| Synopsis | Ian was a workaholic, obsessed with his scientific work, until his sudden death. But before he died, he discovered how to upload his consciousness to The Cloud. Now he is trying to continue to live from the ether, whilst his wife, Mary, desperately tries to get on with her life and a new relationship. |
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A Life Sentence by Mark Seaman
Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire,
Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two.
Overall Festival winner Cornwall Festival 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions. |
| Synopsis | A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days. |
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| Limbo by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Note that at a customer request, the author created a version of the play in which Agatha was replaced by an equivalent male role. If you want to do the play, but would prefer that version, please ask! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, with a single set which is somewhere between reality and the afterlife! A very enjoyable and touching play. |
| Synopsis | Michael's day isn't going well. For one thing, he's just died. For another he's found he's got to share the afterlife with the lady who used to live in his house, and he can't leave it. Now he watches his wife move on without him. |
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| Limbo Café by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 3 voices are offstage characters, and could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act satirical fantasy drama in a one act length, various settings. |
| Synopsis | Hard-headed Canadian businessman Michael and his currency-market speculator partner Joan, are killed in a car crash. In their attempts to vacate Limbo their lives are put on trial - by figures from history, to determine their future. They find that Hell has no limits. |
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ad. Gerald P. Murphy
A production by Vanguard College Prep School in 2017 came second in their district competition and picked up 4 acting awards at the Texas state competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, designed for simple staging. |
| Synopsis | The classic tale staged as a one act play. Jo dreams of being a writer, and Laurie dreams of Jo, but life has different plans for them. Jo travels to New York and meets a Professor before becoming an author, and Laurie travels in Europe and marries Jo's sister Amy. |
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| The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors). |
| Synopsis | After the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events. |
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| Lizzy's Ghost by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voice of Lizzy could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act ghost story, with a single (bar) setting. |
| Synopsis | On a working holiday researching a book, author Joanne finds herself in an isolated village pub on Halloween. The locals give her astounding background, for a gripping tale of the past, in which they are intimately involved. |
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| The Love Gambit by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Six in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary recalls New Years Eve, 1944 when Humphrey Bogart challenged Lauren Bacall to a chess match - and much more. |
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| Love Hurts by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama with a surreal edge. |
| Synopsis | Tommy is sneaking away to see the circus, but unfortunately catches the same bus as his mum. She's got secret plans of her own, while Tommy meets a female clown he hopes will become his girlfriend. They both learn that love hurts. |
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| Love in the Time of Zombies by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One of the few one-act stage treatments of the zombie apocalypse. Single living room set. Contains mild (especially for a world over-run by the living dead) swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sometime in the near future. As flesh eating zombies terrorise the world, Brian and Susan attempt to maintain a normal life... |
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