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| What A Performance! by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play set in a theatre (stage and dressing room). Some adult language. |
| Synopsis | A small group of actors are in a small provincial theatre as their performance ends - the action follows them to the (shared) dressing room. Petty jealousies give way to their assessments of what acting and theatre are all about. |
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| What's The Time, Virginia Woolf? by Doc Watson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the M characters is recorded voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act black comedy on a single living room set. |
| Synopsis | George and Martha tell each other about their interesting days - both have been visited by Alice, with varying accusations of infidelity. The truth will eventually out in this convoluted black comedy - with one of them dead! |
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| Where's George by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Character ages range from thirties to eighties. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set (living room). Contemporary realism. |
| Synopsis | It's Sunday afternoon. Arthur and Vera face the weekly ordeal of tea with Vera's mother, the fearsome Rose, and her carer-son, Edward. Rose is awaiting the arrival of her favourite son, George, but Edward has other surprises in store. |
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| Which Witch? by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, divided into four parts, with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | When the council institute a policy to curb witchcraft, old Mrs Gridley comes under suspicion. Her friends Jenny and Jackie, 'ably' assisted by Jenny's boyfriend, Melvin, endeavour to clear her name - a task hampered by the arrival of an unwelcome face from Mrs Gridley's past. Can the day be saved and what could possibly be the contribution of spaced-out hippy musician, Three-Chord Bob? |
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| A Whole New World by Rebecca Grabill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future). |
| Synopsis | A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it's lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end. |
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| Wild Goose by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
| Run Time | Around 35 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 | Dr Doris Boffin has a case that requires the assistance of Inspector Whalley, Constable Hitchcock and criminal profiler Julie Bright - and she won't accept any of their excuses for not helping.
'Wild Goose' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2. |
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| The Wild Wolves of Wyoming by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are pigs and wolves! Additional wolf pups could be added to fit the available numbers. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for overture and five songs (using traditional tunes) is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical for performance by a small cast of children. A cartoon brought to life! Minimal set requirements. Basic props. |
| Synopsis | It's the time-honoured battle between a wolf and three little pigs, only this time the pigs have the upper hand and the wolf is being oppressed - and boy does his family resent it! |
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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking.
[As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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| Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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Window Pain by Patricia Gay
Performance by Buccaneer Theatre won the Douglas Hunter Rose Bowl in the Moray Firth District round of the 2023 SCDA one-act drama festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A bitter sweet comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Brenda sits at her window, all morning, all afternoon and in the lighter summer evenings. She knows what the neighbours get up to, and all their secrets. But her neighbours have their own stories to tell, and those stories are very different to any of Brenda’s preconceived ideas. |
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