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Self Defence by Laura Belcher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with various settings - a split stage could be used. |
Synopsis | A victim of domestic abuse, Hannah decides to join a self-defence class - as much as for a social outlet as for a means of defending herself. With the support of her fellow class mates, whose light touch relieves the tense atmosphere she is living in, Hannah is empowered to assert herself. |
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Sergeant Major Hewitt by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Doctor and porter are written male, but could be played female. Thomas is a teenager, the rest of the characters are adults. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single (hospital room) set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A World War One Veteran has to share his hospital room with a boy whose father died in World War 2. Though they are only together a short while, they have a great impact on each other's lives. |
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Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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Talking in the Library by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with a single (library) setting. |
Synopsis | The disparate group of regulars at the library along with the librarian and his assistant discover things about each other, and perhaps more importantly themselves and their relationships, over the course of a few weeks. |
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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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Time Telescope by Kitty Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two pairs of roles are written to be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A 1990s pop track is required as opening music. The producer's copy of the script gives a suggestion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short drama with a single (classroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Opposed to one another in their youth, Amy and Brian reminisce at their High School reunion and, in a time-slip sequence, relive a painful memory from the night of the leavers’ ball as they reflect on how their lives have turned out. |
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A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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Truth Will Out by Lin Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a compound (living room/rooftop) set. |
Synopsis | Jack and his girlfriend Emma have just moved into their new student flat. Some friends arrive for an unexpected housewarming, and soon some deeply hidden secrets are brought out into the light. |
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The Turing Test by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Three principal females. The cafe manager, carer and social services manager could be male or female and could be played by one actor. Equally, the carer could be played by two actors, each taking a scene. |
Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An emotional one-act drama in which a family confronts dementia.. (Could be staged with just furniture, making it a good festival piece.) |
Synopsis | Alison Grove, an artificial Inteligence researcher, is struggling to cope with her mother's Alzheimer's disease when she should be focused on the question of whether machines are capable of rational thought. |
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Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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