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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers
Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
| Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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Red-Handed by Alan David Pritchard
WINNER, Miracle Makers International Film and Writing Festival, July 2021, Stage Play Category, Las Vegas, USA |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (school store room) set. |
| Synopsis | Four boys sneak into the storage area where the exam papers are filed, but one boy betrays the others and locks them in. The three incarcerated boys must face their own demons as well as their problems with each other. |
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| Redundancy by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short comedy sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A much-loved character learns that his employer is going to 'have to let him go'... |
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| Refuge by B.J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act drama set in a hotel cleaning cupboard. (The script implies a functioning door, but the effect might be achieved by lighting, minimising the set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | During a terrorist attack on a hotel, guests David and Kate hide together in a cleaning cupboard. |
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| The Regency Matchmaking Match by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash-up of two recognisable settings makes for a good sketch that would fit well into variety nights. |
| Synopsis | It's the final ball of the season and the last chance for the Regency gentry to find their perfect partner. The commentary follows the events of their attempted matchmaking in the style of a football (soccer) match. |
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Regret Rien by Jackie Carreira
Finalist in the Kenneth Branagh New Drama Award 2012, first performed at the Windsor Fringe Festival as part of that award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 one act drama in two minimal scenes, an outdoor café and the top of the Eiffel Tower. |
| Synopsis | Sons Will and Bob accompany their widowed mother Iris to Paris to fulfil their late father's last wishes. Each of them experience much more than expected as old enmities disappear. |
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| The Rehearsal by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | One-act play, set, as you might guess, on a stage. A comedy of character and situation. |
| Synopsis | Daniel is rehearsing a crucial scene from his new play, but Millie and Mike, the two leads, are not being very co-operative. They don't like his last minute changes to the text, and they keep wondering where the rest of the cast is. |
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| Reiterations by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat comedy in three acts. In theory there are two locations, but they are both very similar hotel interiors, so the difference between the acts is a bit of set dressing. |
| Synopsis | Three honeymooning couples end up at the wrong hotel and discover they have a lot more in common than sharing a wedding day - including the fact that all of the women have married the same man at least once! Moving to a different hotel does not help. |
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| Relationship Counsellor by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch in a simple domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | A man arrives home to be told by his wife that she's leaving him for George Clooney. The sort of thing that could happen to anybody. |
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| Relationships in Progress by Carl Zeitler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six short plays linked by a theme, intended to be performed together, with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Relationships in Progress is made up of six short plays portraying various people in relationships we all can relate to: first dates, co-workers, spouses, siblings, and friendship. Whether fun and light, serious and deep, or some combination of those, the characters deal with their relationships with one another as well as the world around them. |
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