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Miriam Waits by Amanda Giles
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Essentially a monologue, but with station Tannoy announcements (which could be played live or recorded)
Run TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short well-written monologue with some interesting reflections on family relationships.
SynopsisAs she waits at a railway station, Miriam recounts her relationship with her father over his final years.
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More Than Friends by Anne Graham
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with a single (living room) setting.
SynopsisWidow June is visited by her late husband’s sister Hazel, who lost contact with her brother many years ago. Now homeless due to her gambling addiction, Hazel is looking for help. However, June’s revelations come as a shock.
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Odd Socks by Emily Hastings
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 33 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama in a single living-room setting. Some adult content.
SynopsisDaisy visits Chloe to share family memories. Their perspectives of the same events seem very different.
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One, Two... One by Alexis Coward
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 16 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act drama
SynopsisTwo homeless people are sleeping rough in an alleyway. They pass the time in conversation which becomes ever more intimate and emotional. Their relationship comes to an abrupt end when the immense value of their meagre possessions is brought to life.
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Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three.
Run TimeAround 41 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play with a minimal set.
SynopsisThe three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with.
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Size Zero by Dave Payne
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 16 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama with a single (kitchen) setting.
SynopsisGill 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
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy/drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.)
SynopsisTwo elderly ladies react to a skateboarder in the vicinity of their park bench.
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby
Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award.
Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties).
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleContemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.)
SynopsisOriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny.
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The Swan Queen by Frank Canino
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is one speaking voice, Lenore. She addresses the audience as a friend, but also addresses two other people (1M, 1F) who might appear on stage. There is also an option for a group of male dancers.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicTwo pieces (associated with classical ballet) are suggested as accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StylePowerful, brilliantly-written one act play. Single set with simple furniture representing multiple locations.
SynopsisA former Prima Ballerina navigates the final months of her life, balancing her health concerns with those of her stepson, an artist with AIDS. Despite some stark differences at first, the pair find common ground and become allies as they each cope with their diagnoses.
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Truant by Gill Medway
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama for two and a bench.
SynopsisFourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom.
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