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Aim by Terry Adlam
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing.
SynopsisTwo men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong.
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Are You Watching Me? by Tony Frier
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 38 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play - ostensibly a comedy, though with a dark twist ending that befits a thriller.
SynopsisAli is close to giving birth, and desperate to leave the dingy apartment where she and her husband Jon are living until her mother’s house sells. All the while, there’s a man watching them from another block of flats. When Ali receives a disturbing text, Jon decides to confront the voyeur - it's at this point a dark secret is revealed.
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The Assignment by Graham Jones
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute drama. Single set (a hotel room, ideally with a practical door).
SynopsisJeanette and Charlotte are both contract killers thinking of leaving the game. Trouble is, they've been assigned to kill each other. Is there some sinister reason behind their meeting?
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Blackmail by Lynn Snyder
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One role is non-speaking.
Run TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTense full-length drama with political, and moral themes. First published in 2010, revised in 2013.
SynopsisA congressman is being investigated over the disappearance of an intern with whom he was having an affair. His son tries to remain loyal but may have to sacrifice his own political career. Then the son meets the sister of the intern and falls in love, changing everything.
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Blood On Canvas by Richard James
Best Seller  Best Play, Maidenhead Drama Guild, Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2021
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA tense one act thriller with a single (art gallery) setting.
SynopsisArtist Maddie is beginning to establish herself as a successful artist, but her studio and gallery are situated in a remote area and a killer is apparently on the loose. When art collector Stella arrives, it becomes clear that one of them is the killer. The tension rises inexorably... to the shocking final denouement.
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Broken by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The 2 male roles are very minor.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act thriller, with a single - old dining room - setting.
SynopsisLucy receives a mysterious email inviting her to a house that turns out to have been abandoned for years. Waiting there is her former mother-in-law, who still blames Lucy for the death of her son. But there are more surprises to come...
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Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009.
Run TimeAround 94 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959.
SynopsisIn 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery.
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A Captivating Situation by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props.
SynopsisHowie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives?
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The Cast Is Die by Peter Robbie
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort one-act play with a great self-referential twist on drama about drama. It has some silly comedy while retaining a strong thriller element, and the dialogue is snappy and characterful.
SynopsisFive members of an amateur drama group meet to plan their next production. Tensions, bitchiness and backstabbing abound. Their script is about five members of a drama group, who meet to plan their next production - a meeting which ends in madness and murder. Can the cast bring life to the script or does, as it seems, the script have a life of its own?
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Change Of Heart by Tony Frier
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 47 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller.
SynopsisA tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her?
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