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| Silas Marner by George Eliot adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act historical drama, adapted from George Eliot's novel of the same name. A serious play, with a moral |
| Synopsis | Silas Marner has been cast out by his home community and has moved to Raveloe. He continues his weaving business, but becomes a recluse and a miser. His life is changed by two events - the theft of his fortune and the arrival on his doorstep of a foundling whom he names Eppie. |
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| Silver Linings by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself. |
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| Sin by C Henchley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The play is written for two characters, but there is an option of adding a crowd of silent extras. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Unusual, short holocaust drama in a single minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Two men on their way to Belsen debate the morality of lying to a couple wanting to marry. Is the joy they can impart before the horror of the camps worth the cost to the liar’s immortal soul? |
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A Single Moment by Tony Domaille
Runner up UK Community Drama Festivals Federation Geoffrey Whitworth competition for Best Original Script, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single (Betting Shop) setting. Part I of the author's 'Changes' trilogy. |
| Synopsis | Danny's gambling has finally brought him to rock bottom. He has lost everything and now finds himself in the bookmaker’s shop learning lessons from a bag lady and a bookmaker. Whilst salvation is offered from surprising sources, it is a single moment that saves him when his most unlikely bet is won because on 5th June 2009 snow fell across parts of the UK. |
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| Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
| Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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| A Sixpenny War by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama set during World War Two in the staff restroom of a Woolworths store in London. |
| Synopsis | The horror of war (and the specific horros of the Second World War), seen through the eyes of a group of girls working at Woolworths each one of whom is personally affected, is dramatically evoked using contemporary political speeches as a background for the girls' experiences. |
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| Sixth Wife by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two live characters plus a voicemail announcement which is assumed to be prerecorded (as is the nature of such things). |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A nice twist on the monologue format as the script jumps between Roy and Cathy's reflections on Roy's past wives and their upcoming marriage. A simple set, two good characters with fun, witty dialogue would make a good challenge for a pair of actors. |
| Synopsis | No, not that sixth wife. Roy is about to get married for the sixth time. But do he and the bookish Cathy have that much in common? |
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| Size Zero by Dave Payne |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | Gill struggles to deal with her daughter's anorexia. She tries every trick in the book to persuade, cajole, beg and guilt-trip Claire into eating, but when Claire refuses, a tortured Gill snaps. |
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| The Skateboard by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy/drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Two elderly ladies react to a skateboarder in the vicinity of their park bench. |
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| Sleeping Off Hell by Carolyn Copeland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute drama. Single set (hotel concierge desk - as simple as you like!), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Four very different characters find they're stranded at the concierge desk of a hotel, with no one to give them their room keys. They begin to talk and discover they all have different reasons for wanting to stay there...or maybe it's the same reason after all. |
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