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Was Blind But Now I See by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit, telling and examining a well-known fable from a Christian perspective. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Five blind people encounter a curious object and work together to find out what it is, while a sighted pair react differently. |
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Watch Your Back by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Barlow is a male voice on a telephone speaker and might be doubled (or, possibly, recorded). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy. Single 1970s office set. |
Synopsis | This takes us back to a typical typing pool in 1972, where lecherous Head of the Accounts Department, Mr.Crawley, known as Creepy Crawley to the girls in the office, rules the roost. Supervisor Marjorie is frustrated in her attempts to shelter her girls, Gill and Sally, from his sexist antics until newcomer Helen presents her with a delicious opportunity to make sure that Mr. Crawley gets his just desserts. |
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Water Under The Bridge by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama play. |
Synopsis | Louis and Tony meet unexpectedly after a long separation. Time has passed, but it soon becomes clear that not enough water has flowed under the bridge, and some memories are still sharp enough to cause pain. |
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The Water's Edge by Michael Lill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short two-handed play, single set. |
Synopsis | Daniel is helping his wife to get to bed in her nursing home. She is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease and really doesn't remember him... |
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Watt's Cooking by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama for children to perform, with simple sets. |
Synopsis | Recalcitrant child Edna's nature is transformed - when she is sent away to live with mean old pie maker Mrs Watts, who grants Edna's wish to have her name changed to Goldilox. She is successful in persuading the Bear family to enjoy fruit and vegetables rather than meat, but the sting in the tail hints of a grisly end for Mrs Watts. |
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Way Off Course by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Inspector Whalley and colleagues investigate the iniquities of a team-building course - and win the gratitude of the boss into the bargain. 'Way Off Course' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2. |
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We Don’t Like To Be Beside The Seaside by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Six on-stage characters plus a radio announcer (who could be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with a single main-stage set and occasional action in other places, set in downstage areas. |
Synopsis | It's an annual event for three married couples to take a cottage by the sea. One couple drops out at the last minute. But they have found two younger unattached women to take their place. Things get complicated when it turns out the newcomers may be unknown to the wives, but not to the husbands. The question is, by design or destiny? |
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We're All Dead by Jonathan Edgington Selected for and performed (by Precipice Productions) at Stockwell Playhouse's 2019 One Act Playwriting Festival in London where it received a 'Highly Commended' award. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two of the male characters should look alike. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act ghostly drama with multiple settings (arranged by the actors). With adult themes and strong language. First published in 2013, revised edition published 2019. |
Synopsis | With time shifting between the present day and 1973, Russ and Rachel experience life changing events brought about by Russ's encounter with his younger self. |
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Wedding Day by John F. Glen Performance by Thurso Players won two trophies and came second overall in the SCDA Caithness Adult Festival of One Act Plays, Feb 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Range of ages - three adult generations of one family. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Simple set (two pieces of furniture - so easy to stage as a competition piece). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Annie, elderly matriarch of a family, looks back on a long life on the day her granddaughter gets married. She recalls the wedding of her daughter and her own wedding day, as well as some sadder memories. |
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Wedding Party by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four adults (to be played by adults or teenagers). |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | An upper class couple are free with their opinions and distain at a friends' wedding and end up embarrassing themselves with their assumptions. |
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