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Extra Time by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters could be female. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A student is into the last couple of minutes of his exam time when the new invigilator takes over. Despite exam conditions, the student seems determined to talk, and even test the invigilator on his mathematical skills. |
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Fashion School by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | It's the first evening of fashion school and the tutor is putting the new students through their paces. |
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Five Black Marks by Deborah Hugill Production by Allerton Players won Best Production, Best Actress, Best Technical Achievement award and the Audience Award at Richmond Drama Festival 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and one recorded voice. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An atmospheric supernatural drama. |
Synopsis | Three friends are spending the night in an abandoned school on Halloween. A teacher died in fire there, many years ago, and at least one of the girls is hoping the ghost will appear. What they don't know is how the fire started. |
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The Flag by Neil Walden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easy-to-stage one-act drama for three actors in one simple office set. |
Synopsis | A school in 1930s England is set to welcome an ambassador from Nazi Germany, whose child is one of the pupils. Headteacher Mrs Mayhew wants to fly the Nazi flag for the visitor's arrival, but young teacher Miss Tait raises an objection. A good period drama with a sharp focus on an area of pre-WW2 history that's often overlooked - how a lot of British people were generally welcoming towards the Nazis, or at least apathetic about their politics, in the years before the war. It also has some relevance to the contemporary debates around flags. |
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Free Time by Helen Foster |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a single (school staff room) setting. |
Synopsis | Three teachers find themselves trapped in the staff room with no apparent avenue for escape, and with a drop of whisky - handily available! Their previously distant relationships become much closer as they cope with their situation. |
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A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
Synopsis | Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... |
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The Fumblings at Friar's Bottom by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy, verging on light farce |
Synopsis | Friar's Bottom is a decaying English Boarding School in the 1950s. Most of the staff are looking to escape - not necessarily with their current partners. Full of double dealings with a shady bookmaker and an American property developer. |
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Hannah the Horrible by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are two adults and three children (aged 6 to 12). Whilst of course it could be played to age, it could also be performed by a youth theatre company (or even an adult company playing children). |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute (or so) comedy play. |
Synopsis | Hannah seems to be to blame for everything bad that happens in young Karen's class. Karen's mother confronts her teacher... |
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Harsh Lights by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with two settings (living room and park bench). Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Genevieve has had a turbulent time at secondary school, but events take a darker turn after cruel and thoughtless remarks from a teacher about her dancing abilities. She responds by making false accusations of sexual harassment, with severe consequences for the teacher and for Genevieve's parents. |
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Hollingsborough Children's School Nativity Play by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. It is intended that adults play all the roles (despite there being only one or two roles in which the adults play adults). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Parody of a children's nativity play in which adults take the roles of the children |
Synopsis | It's Nativity time again, and the kids are having the usual trouble - they can't keep the lines straight, can't pronounce the long words and want to wave at their parents as soon as they're onstage. This play will feel very familiar to a lot of people! It should be emphasised that this is a parody and is not intended as a children's nativity play! |
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