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Messengers by Clay Space |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for youth age performers, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A demanding and emotional piece of drama. Years of blame and abuse have brought Brian to the point of taking his own life. As the garage fills with car exhaust, he is visited by figures from his life who force him to consider his choices. |
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Mirror Image by Julia Lee Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus the off-stage voice of a stage-hand. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single dressing-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A young actor finds an unexpected and disturbing visitor in his dressing room after a triumphal last night performance. |
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Mismatching Mates by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act character-driven drama with a single café setting. |
Synopsis | Iris and Gert meet a few times in the café in town, and become friends. Iris lets slip that she's a widow with a generous settlement from her husband's life insurance, and she's looking on-line for a new man. Gert cautions her about the funny types you get out there, but surely Harry is a good man? |
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Missing by Sue Bevan Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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Mitigating Circumstances by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (better done live, but easy to double) |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dramatic story told in a single set but in non-chronological order. |
Synopsis | Simon's death was certainly caused by his heart condition, but Emma swapping his meds for vitamins didn’t help. After the funeral, her friends gather and discuss things that might have driven Emma to murder. |
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Monster by Peter Anthony Fields |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a single (kitchen) set. US English. |
Synopsis | After a horrific school shooting occurs in a small Midwestern town, a Protestant minister and her troubled brother grapple over how to come to terms with the senseless tragedy. |
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More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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Moving On by Richard James Performance by Little Acorn Productions won the Adjudicator's Award, Leicestershire One Act Play Festival, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An excellent three-handed, single-set one-act play on the subject of bereavement. |
Synopsis | Angela is packing up her things to move out of the house she raised her children in. Though her husband has been dead for a year, she hasn't come to terms with losing him. |
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Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple one act play. |
Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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Mum and Jack by S. P. Franksson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in a single set. An effective balance of emotional drama and gentle comedy. |
Synopsis | Jack's mum is elderly and losing her memory. He visits her when he can, though he's got his own problems with his job and his girlfriend, who Mum disapproves of. |
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