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Blood On Canvas by Richard James Best Seller Best Play, Maidenhead Drama Guild, Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2021 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense one act thriller with a single (art gallery) setting. |
Synopsis | Artist 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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The Dead Shepherd by Robert Pope and Ian Dixon Potter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Bowing to historical accuracy, twelve of the characters are male, but cast them how you like! |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An intriguing full-length historical drama. Contains Shakespearean gore. |
Synopsis | The events which led to the murder of Christopher Marlowe are recounted through the eyes of his friend and artistic collaborator, William Shakespeare. After Marlowe invites Shakespeare to the meetings of Sir Walter Raleigh's 'School of Night', Marlowe's heretical writings and loud public demeanour attract the attention of Sir Robert Cecil, who begins plotting to silence the playwright. |
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Desperate Gallery by Sophie Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play set in an art gallery. Contains mild swearing (and art). |
Synopsis | Camelia is a young artist is displaying her work in a local art gallery in the hope of achieving her first sale. Two inept art thieves are the only 'customers' and in her desperation for artistic fame she explores various strategies with them. The arrival of snooty art critic Jorgen Tyson interrupts their planning and his disparaging remarks become increasingly annoying - with fatal consequences! However in a witty final twist his presence may help Camelia to achieve her goal after all. |
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A Fifty-Minute Alchemist by Ben Jonson adapted by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act adaptation of Ben Jonson's comedy. Whilst the text uses mostly Jonson's language, this is an adaptation, not an abridgement, hence both script and performances are subject to copyright licensing. |
Synopsis | Three con-artists set up a series of swindles starting with the pretext of an alchemist who can create charms and turn base metal into gold. Things start to go wrong when too many of their customers arrive at once, and the result is the 17th century equivalent of a multi-door farce, with a different problem lurking behind each door and needing to be kept hidden from the others. |
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Fundraiser by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short comedy sketch, with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | With funding running low, how might the Cruttock's End Lap Dance and Pole Artistes Collective raise some capital? |
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Gallery by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Structurally a two-act play (but classified as a one-act on the grounds of length), single art gallery setting, satirising thepretentions of the commercial fine arts world. |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous Art Dealer has a young artist foisted on him by a work programme, but soon turns the situation to his advantage when a misunderstanding makes the artist an overnight sensation. |
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The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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Greeting Cards by Frank Flynn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama with a single setting and some adult themes. |
Synopsis | Greeting card artist Robbie has suffered a stroke and his room mate Max is struggling to care for him and encourage him to get back to work. Two women, Mandy and Max’s sister Gertie are the catalyst for life saving changes for both Robbie and Max. |
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His Shoes Were Far Too Tight by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The ages of the two characters vary considerably (and not sequentially!) during the play! |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play for two actors. A study of character and relationships. Contains some swearing. |
Synopsis | The English eccentric (artist, musician and writer of nonsense verse) Edward Lear takes a sentimental journey back through his relationship with his loyal Albanian servant Giorgis Kokalis. They recall their first meeting, their travels, arguments and understandings. |
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Indian Summer by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set. A brief romance set against the background of the Indian Mutiny. |
Synopsis | Amid the uprising against the East India Company in the 1850s, Clara has commissioned a portrait - to closely resemble Botticelli's 'Birth Of Venus', but depicting her as an old woman. The Artist, Nathanial, arrives with his canvas and oils, and they share the last moments of an Indian Summer together. |
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