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Not In My Lunch Hour by Amir Rahimzadeh |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act adult comedy. (First published in August 2013, Revised edition in March 2014.) |
Synopsis | Lewis hopes for a peaceful time to enjoy his sandwiches in the park, but his idyll is irritatingly cut short by the intrusion of the peculiar Otto followed by the mysterious Jo. This is a lunch break Lewis is not going to forget. |
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Our Little Secret by Rollin Jewett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic drama with a single apartment setting. |
Synopsis | Darlene is surprised by an armed intruder entering her apartment. Tensions build as police arrive in force to the neighbourhood, searching for the miscreant. She soon discovers that the intruder is not quite what he seems and a relationship develops between them. |
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The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with a single garage setting. |
Synopsis | When the mechanics at Smith’s garage take on a new apprentice, they don’t expect Frankie to be a woman, or so capable. She soon has the place running better than ever, and that creates a new problem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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The Source Of Denial by Damian Trasler |
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 | One-act play with a minimal set. A combination of comedy, serious argument and an exploration of the writing process. (Is that metadrama? Who knows?) |
Synopsis | Struggling to write a 'proper' play after years of comedies, a writer uses his favourite character to explore faith, proof and truth, only to end up learning more about himself than he expected. |
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The Spy On Ward Four by Jonathan Goodson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy with a bit of an edge. Simple set - a hospital ward, though, unusually for that setting, the focus of the play is not sickness. |
Synopsis | Oswald is in an Arkansas hospital, trying to recover from his heart operation, but they want to deep-clean his ward and everyone's been moved out except him. Then he becomes unwittingly privy to a plot by a nurse and her boyfriend to steal surplus supplies, and worse... His wife is looking for him! |
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A Stitch In Time by Mark Green |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a split (lounge and garden) set. |
Synopsis | Young Alastair's dad has died, and his mum and granddad are bringing him up, and sister Holly too. Much to the family's disdain, Alastair, inspired by his late father, is convinced that he has invented a time machine. |
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Straight to the Top by Martin Sims |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The female role is voice only, |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy/drama in a single set which could be minimal. (The author makes staging suggestions in the Producer's Copy of the script.) |
Synopsis | Joseph is on his way to the top of the building to end his unlucky life. Fortunately, Michael takes the same elevator, slowing the journey in time for Joseph to achieve a different perspective on life. |
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Tiny House by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Bernice is (male to female) transgender. How you cast this depends on your company. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act in a single split-level set.. A comedy drama with a surreal edge. US English. |
Synopsis | Three old friends are trying to get their lives back on track by returning to their days of sharing a house - in this case, a tiny house in the wilds of New York State. But lots of things have changed and the house is very tiny. |
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Warm, Hot, Getting Hotter by Lou Treleaven Winner, Wimbledon Playfest 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a strange restaurant setting. |
Synopsis | It gradually becomes clear that the oddly decorated restaurant, the strange waiter, and the very hot food are not what they seem... Each of these diners has a past that they may really be regretting. |
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