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| Let Her Rip by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In addition to the eight characters there are three off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play set in the southern USA. Intended to be played with minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Sixty-somethings behaving badly, when four ladies decide to have the wild time they've missed in the rest of their lives. |
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| The Letter by Larry Collins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One female character is voice-only. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama on a single (headmaster's office) set. |
| Synopsis | A teacher’s response to a student’s letter has raised some concerns, especially as it’s right before an Ofsted inspection. The Headmaster wants it handled discreetly, but properly, but there are more wrinkles than he knows. |
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| Life Imitating Art by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act drama, with a one act length, and with a single (art gallery) set. |
| Synopsis | Mature art student Dorothy surprises Pete in the art gallery, confusing him for her tour guide. For his own reasons he goes along with Dorothy's mistaken belief that he is a professor of art. The whole experience enriches them both. |
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Life in the Cloud by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Palace Players - Winner Ballincollig Drama Festival 2022 |
| 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 in a single living room set. The sci-fi-esque idea of a dead man's consciousness stored in the cloud is used for an engaging exploration of grief and moving on. |
| Synopsis | Ian was a workaholic, obsessed with his scientific work, until his sudden death. But before he died, he discovered how to upload his consciousness to The Cloud. Now he is trying to continue to live from the ether, whilst his wife, Mary, desperately tries to get on with her life and a new relationship. |
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A Life Sentence by Mark Seaman
Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire,
Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two.
Overall Festival winner Cornwall Festival 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions. |
| Synopsis | A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days. |
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| Like it or Not by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set (hotel sitting room), which need not be elaborate. |
| Synopsis | A young playwright waits to meet the star who may produce his play, but his fiancée wants in on the act. More than that, her father has planned a meeting with the actress, and it turns out her mother is going to have her own surprising encounter. |
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| Like You've Never Seen It Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. 12 speaking parts, the rest mime. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Minimum set. Simple props. Intended as a junior school full-class play. Opportunities for mime, improvisation and dance. |
| Synopsis | Jo and Mel are trying to write a play for their school, but, unknown to them, they are being fought over by a muse and Professor Block, the personification of writer's block. Unfortunately for the professor, he is in entirely the wrong place. |
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| Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
| Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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| Limbo by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Note that at a customer request, the author created a version of the play in which Agatha was replaced by an equivalent male role. If you want to do the play, but would prefer that version, please ask! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, with a single set which is somewhere between reality and the afterlife! A very enjoyable and touching play. |
| Synopsis | Michael's day isn't going well. For one thing, he's just died. For another he's found he's got to share the afterlife with the lady who used to live in his house, and he can't leave it. Now he watches his wife move on without him. |
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| Limbo Café by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 3 voices are offstage characters, and could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act satirical fantasy drama in a one act length, various settings. |
| Synopsis | Hard-headed Canadian businessman Michael and his currency-market speculator partner Joan, are killed in a car crash. In their attempts to vacate Limbo their lives are put on trial - by figures from history, to determine their future. They find that Hell has no limits. |
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