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| Rumpelstiltskin [Version 2] by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Eight major roles and ten minor ones. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for a school or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | A boastful father makes a foolish claim to a cruel King and his daughter's life depends on her ability to spin straw into gold...
A novel retelling of the traditional tale with a new twist tote ending and plenty of laughs along the way. |
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| Rusticesses by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of three linked sketches. No set requirements, simple props. The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). |
| Synopsis | Two ladies of dubious intellectual capacity discuss life, husbands and their impending motherhood in three encounters.
Described by the author as a self-supporting companion to 'Rustics' by which he means that the concept is similar (this is the female counterpart), but the scripts are totally independent. |
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| Rustics by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of four sketches. No set requirements, simple props (and only two of those). The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). |
| Synopsis | Two local yokels discuss whatever comes to mind! |
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| Sand to the Egyptians by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Basically a two-hander (Samantha is the minor role). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a neat twist. Two sets, but both can be done minimally. |
| Synopsis | James is at a speed dating event, and Natalie has just made it to his table. He's easy to talk to and she's soon telling him a great deal, but then, he's a Police negotiator, so that's not really surprising, is it? |
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| Santa and Elf by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Elf is written female but could be played by a male. The disembodied voice (making Post Office announcements) is assumed to be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play in a single (Post Office) set. |
| Synopsis | The Giggleton Post Office has to get a sack of mail off to the Sorting Office ASAP - it’s kids' letters to Santa. Little do they know that Santa himself is on hand to collect the sack, if his Elf assistant can stop causing traffic accidents! |
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| Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
| Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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| Scary Miss Muffet by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a spider, a fly, a bookworm, a sunbeam, various flowers and a loquacious weed. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Single (minimal) set. A weaving of the tales of Jack and Jill and Miss Muffet. |
| Synopsis | Jill Muffet wants to sit on her tuffet, have her brother Jack at her beck and call and be appreciated by all around her, but the flowers in her garden don't find her so appealing. |
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| Scoop Jackson by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Character genders could be matched to cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors - nine years and older. |
| Synopsis | The ailing Daily Special is under threat of closure from its owner, Big Boss. Cub reporter Scoop Jackson sets out on a mission to rescue the paper by way of getting a 'big story' from the worlds of show business, politics, or law and order. Success seems to be eluding him as he desperately puts 'Plan D' into action. Will it work? Hold the front page! |
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Scotch Broth by Geoff Bamber with songs by Stuart Ardern
Production by Stranraer Drama Club Juniors won loads of trophies at the Wigton division of the SCDA festival, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for two songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of ther script. (Two further songs are suggested.) |
| Style | A dramatised partial (probably in both senses) history of Scotland suitable for Primary School aged children and above. Minimal sets (although Hadrian's wall is built - very rapidly - during the show.) |
| Synopsis | Two Inter-Galactic time travellers arrive in Scotland on a fact-finding mission. Guided by a helpful Narrator, they take an eventful journey through the nation's history and culture and encounter some famous faces on the way. |
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| Scrabble, Stamps and Goldfish by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nigel is fat and unhappy, so his friends are trying to find him a woman through an online dating service. Sadly, Nigel isn't very enthusiastic, or very decisive, so Bob and Ron have to make a lot of the decisions for him. Surely there's someone out there for him? |
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