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| A Tangled Web by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male considerably older than other characters. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play with a single set (living-dining room). |
| Synopsis | Wanting to 'bring back proper society', Grace is throwing a traditional Dinner Party for the cream of local society. But a thunderstorm of biblical proportions, a lack of caterers and the death of a guest may bring... success? |
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| Tea With Mrs Pankhurst by Ruth Urquhart & James Douglas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles). |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set. |
| Synopsis | The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage. |
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| Team Building by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with an all-female cast. |
| Synopsis | When new boss Carter insists on a team building day comprising a run through a wood, one group of employees is less than impressed. The reluctant women soon find ways to avoid joining in, but eventually find that unity can be achieved. |
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Telling It by Annie Connell
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Two settings, but easily combined into a single set. |
| Synopsis | As two officers interview a woman claiming to be the victim of domestic violence, problems with her story make them suspicious. Despite her deception, she's still a victim, and it looks like there could be a violent offender out there. |
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| The Tempest [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The character list, like all of Shakespeare's work, is male-heavy. That has not prevented excellent productions by majority female casts! |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of Shakespeare on the boundary between a one-act and a full-lengh play. All words remain Shakespeare's, with one short speech added by the abridger to facilitate a character exit. |
| Synopsis | Since being usurped as Duke of Milan by his brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have lived on a deserted island. With the help of the spirit Ariel, he causes a tempest that shipwrecks his passing enemies. He aims to regain his dukedom and marry Miranda to Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples. |
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| Ten Minutes Left by Bart Meehan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with minimal set requirements. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | A couple’s previously staid relationship blossoms as they wait, knowing there are only ten minutes before an unknown catastrophe arrives. Is there time to remember their first meeting? |
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| Terminal 1 by Dave Payne |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute drama with a single (departure lounge) setting. |
| Synopsis | George and Lynda's flight has been delayed, so far by 9 hours. George becomes more and more annoyed whilst Lynda is strangely calm and collected. Their love for each other shines through as the reason for their journey - and the play's title - becomes poignantly clear. |
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| The Terror of the Crown by C.J. Jenkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Very flexible casting, with 13 principals who could play all the roles, but with minor roles and opportunities for chorus action. Male-heavy, as demanded by the story, but with a song for 'the women of Israel'. |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with a score for the song sung by 'the women of Israel' in three versions - solo/unison, duet and quartet. The script also suggests an optional dance with percussive accompaniment. |
| Style | Dramatised biblical epic. |
| Synopsis | Framed by the story of two scribes, master and apprentice, faithfully copying out sacred texts, the tale of King Saul and his fall from Grace is told. His pride and love of kingly power prove to be his undoing. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
| Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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| That Goal by Stan Duncan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, poignant prose monologue of appeal to people for whom interests in football and theatre intersect! |
| Synopsis | Denis is an ex-professional footballer, whose visitors remind him of his past glories. |
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