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| The Trumpeter by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | With a fanfare, we present the tale of Thomas the Trumpeter and his performance before Her Majesty the Queen. |
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| Trussed by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The ninth character is an offstage female voice. This could be recorded, but would be better played live as it is a phone interaction with an onstage character. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act comedy with two domestic sets - one in each act - which are the mirror immage of each other! Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | As if being burgled wasn't bad enough, Graham can't get the police to come round, or his insurance adjustor to pay out on the claim. But is staging another burglary really the answer? It seems not, although with help from his wife and the neighbours, he does find the burglar. |
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| Truth and Reconciliation by Cassandra Newman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally-charged one-act drama set in a basement office. |
| Synopsis | Anita has come to the Baltimore Truth and Reconciliation Commission to tell the story of her son's death, only to find one of the people there to record her statement witnessed the death. The three characters struggle to find a path to peace and forgiveness in the aftermath of violence and fear. |
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| The Truth Fairies by Sally Kinnell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play with touches of dark comedy, most suitable for adult cast and audiences. |
| Synopsis | Aileen's had a long and successful acting career, but it hasn't prepared her for meeting up with a couple of old friends - because she thought they were dead. Actually Liz and Frankie are alive and well, and they have to set Aileen straight about one more thing... |
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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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| Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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| Tsunami by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single - hotel reception area - setting. |
| Synopsis | It appears that Clive has been head-hunted for a high level position, but he does not know what the job is, or which company is involved. His interview, conducted by the formidable trio - Laura, Lucinda and Lydia takes many strange turns and it is only when Clive's wife Susan appears, he learns that this is not a job interview after all... |
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| Tumor by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play, single set (the main requirement is a hospital bed). |
| Synopsis | Mr Davidson is waiting for an operation when Bruce uses his hospital room as a place to hide. A few of Bruce's questions give Mr Davidson something other than surgery to think about, and when he wakes up minus his tumour, he has something unexpected to tell his wife. |
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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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| A TV With Just One Button by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and a child. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set indicative of a living room (seating, a television).
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | Mark and Bob grapple with a new television. |
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