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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Episodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage). |
Synopsis | It's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual. |
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An Eye for an Eye by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single set (prison cell with practical door). Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | James Nash is awaiting trial for the murder of his father. The horrific details of the crime have shocked the nation, and Nash has been offered lots of money for his story. But he chooses to tell it to a couple from his local paper, for a pittance given to charity. What is his story? |
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Family Spirit by Pat Wollaston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play in two acts (in length, somewhere on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length - that is to say, another shorter piece could be fitted in the same program if desired). Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | When Arthur dies, he's a little surprised to find that he's still in his old house. His guide angel, Simon, explains that he's being assessed to determine which way he goes next, but there are a few complications between Arthur's funeral and his final destination. |
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Feeding the Pigs by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An enjoyably grim monologue. |
Synopsis | Mara has killed her husband and needs to get rid of the body. She takes him, at dead of night, to a pig farm ten miles away to feed him to the pigs. She succeeds, but makes a potentially damning mistake. |
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A Fifty-Minute Duchess of Malfi by John Webster abridged by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Characters include a small boy and optional non-speaking servants, etc. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | The eponymous heroine is a rich widow. Her brothers - a duke and a cardinal - want control of her wealth and so have forbidden her from marrying. They set the loyal but troubled Bosola to spy on her, and he discovers that the duchess has, in secret, married Antonio, her steward. The news sets the Duke and Cardinal into such a rage that nobody escapes unscathed. (Whilst the abridgement reduces the length of the text, all of Webster's gory details are preserved - which is more than can be said for the principals.) |
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A Fifty-Minute White Devil by John Webster abridged by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Characters include a small boy and optional non-speaking attendants, etc. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of John Webster's 'The White Devil', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | In his pursuit of Vittoria, the wife of old Camillo, Duke Brachiano abandons his wife, Isabella, then connives with Vittoria's brother, to have Isabella and Camillo murdered. Isabella's brother, the Duke of Florence, and his ally Cardinal Monticelso - Camillo's cousin - set out to get revenge. (We're in Grand Guignol territory. This isn't going to end happily for anyone!) |
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Fighting the Kaiser with Catapults by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama written for performance by older youth theatre students (16-19 year olds). Can be performed on minimal sets. |
Synopsis | A series of vignettes follows three different men, their relationships with the women in their lives and their involvement in the First World War. The scenes take place at various intervals between 1914 and 1916. |
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The First Born by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monologue set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | A woman reflects on her life and that of her child. |
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The First Step by Kathleen Maule Holen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama with an unexpected trajectory. Multiple settings but with minimal set requirements - lighting and 'furniture' should be enough. (American English.) |
Synopsis | A group of friends meet just before dawn on New Year's Day, just as they have for fourteen years, but this year is going to be different. Dotty has decided that, rather than make and break resolutions, they’re going to do something. |
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