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| Tomboy by Stuart Smithers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An efficient one-act drama with some well-placed twists. Deals sympathetically with the issues of bullying and gender transition. |
| Synopsis | Andy is attending his first school reunion since leaving 50 years ago, and meets reunion regulars Gerry and Val. Gerry has very fond memories of school, but doesn't remember Andy. Andy's memories aren't so fond, but he seems to know a lot about Gerry, and is determined to coax a secret out of him. |
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A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
| Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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| Towards the Light by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One popular song suggested for diegetic use throughout the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act supernatural drama on a single set. |
| Synopsis | Twenty-year old Neil has given Poppy, a teenage runaway, shelter in his London flat. But Poppy senses the ghostly presence of a previous tenant and calls in a medium to exorcise the property. No-one quite realises the potency of Letitia, a heartbroken older spirit seeking reconciliation with her long-lost daughter. Love, laughter and dance bring in a final understanding between the two worlds and herald optimism for the future. |
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A Train Ride Away by Frank Gibbons
Performance by Aiken High won The Garcia Theater Project, North Augusta 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Characters are mainly adults with one young child. Could all be played by children. The chorus is optional, but there are several scenes where crowds would create atmosphere. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Intended to have figurative sets (possibly just lighting transitions), rather than realistic depictions of the locations. Props could be real or indicated by mime. Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The story of a family of Hungarian Jews being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the holocaust of 1944. |
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| Traitors, Cads & Cowards by Martin McNamara |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, though performing groups may wish to add an interval. Single prison cell setting, and some strong language. |
| Synopsis | During the Great War, an army deserter, a conscientious objector and an IRA soldier share a cell. They play out their respective journeys to prison and relate the horrors of the period. Liam, an Irish rebel arrested after the Easter Rising in Dublin, has been transported to the military wing of London's Wandsworth Prison for questioning. He is bunked in with Alfred, a shell-shocked veteran of the trenches up on desertion charges. Their other cell mate is Henry, conscientious objector, court martialed for refusing his call up papers. Can three very different 'Traitors to the King' find common ground? |
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| Tramp Business by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch on a simple park bench set. |
| Synopsis | Whatever way of making money is good for Alan, a cunning tramp who wants to sell bench tickets to everyone else sleeping in the park. His unusual business, however, doesn’t keep him from expressing sympathy and concern for his fellows during their ongoing and miserable wanderings. |
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| Transfusion by Daniel Taylor-Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama - adult themes, with various settings - compound set suitable. |
| Synopsis | Terminally ill Carol is being cared for at home by her trainee-nurse son, Ben. Their very close relationship stands up to the stresses and strains involved and they are also able to help Ben's boyfriend Max deal with his homophobic parents. Ultimately Ben has to take drastic steps to give Carol an optimistic future. |
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| Trapped by Ian Cowell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act mystery with a single set, strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Two mysterious callers to a house are on a mission. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the mission will have dire consequences for one of the callers. |
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| Tremayne's Folly by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three adult males, three females and a thirteen-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty period script with some well-crafted characters. A single coastal setting. |
| Synopsis | In 1803, former soldier Parsons has taken up residence as the official hermit of Lord Tremayne's estate. But this simple life is threatened when he gets caught up in the extra-marital affairs of Sir William Pitt, and a dead Frenchman washes up on the beach. |
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| Tresses by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Contains one non-speaking male role and one pre-recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 109 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama, set in an ornate Victorian room and a graveyard. |
| Synopsis | The Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites has recruited a new sitter, the dazzling but uncultured Elizabeth Siddal. She becomes Rossetti's wife and a friend to his sister, but the unequal marriage takes a terrible toll. Contains a scene with partial female nudity. |
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