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| Spaced Out by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All the crew of the Lolly Pop are aged 11 to 13. (There is a good reason for this in the script!) Mission control is considerably older, but is a voice-over. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Space-based comedy play for a cast of kids. |
| Synopsis | These are the voyages of the Intergalactic Confederation ship 'Lolly Pop'. It's mission - to search the stars, to boldly go where no child has gone before. To seek out... lunch. |
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| The Spartan Conspiracy by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act satire. |
| Synopsis | Menelaus, Ulysses and Agamemnon meet with Achilles to discuss the disastrous rise in the price of Olive Oil, instigated by the Trojans. How can they prompt a war with Troy to combat the oil price? Then they send for Helen... |
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| Speakeasy by Jane Quill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single (minimal set). |
| Synopsis | Spend a few evenings with the Speakeasy group, an informal talking session where people can deal with their issues, helped by Gary, the founder. Michael is struggling with depression, Rachel is alcoholic and Bettina is really Johnathan, but they all have the group in common. |
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| A Spell of Bad Weather by Giles Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. The Giant is an offstage voice, so could be recorded or live. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act fairytale/fantasy for kids. Several settings, but each intended to be indicated by a single item of stage furniture. |
| Synopsis | The village of Winsome has been suffering from continuous storms. Something must be done. Preferably something heroic. Fortunately, there's a hero to hand, not to mention a teacher, a weather forecaster, and a policeman. They set off on a quest to find the cause. A quest involving a giant, an invisible wall, The Wizard of Nastiness, a good fairy and The Princess Delightful (a delightful princess). |
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| Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Eight roles but two of them are written to be doubled by specific cast members. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly, raucous farce set around a séance. Fun characters, cheeky wit, a lot of physical humour, and some audience interaction. (American English.) |
| Synopsis | Madame Sirena prepares to conduct a séance at the mansion of wealthy widower Taffy, who has sworn to bring his late wife's murderer to justice before he remarries - but the clock is ticking for his fiancée, Felicity, who must wed before she turns 30 to claim her inheritance. Meanwhile, escape artist Harry Hugweenie resists the advances of his spirited assistant as he waits on a promised message from the other side. |
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| Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
| Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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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 Spy With A View by Robert Scott
Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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| Squeezy and the Wicked Queen by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomine with a variety of settings. Includes roles suitable for young children. |
| Synopsis | This story picks ups where 'Snow White' ends. The Seven Dwarves, who work for the Queen down the mine, decide to go and help Santa instead by working in his workshop. Snow White is now on a reality TV series, so the Dwarves need some money of their own. However, all does not go to plan, and the Queen tries to ruin Christmas by poisoning Santa's reindeer. Who will save the day? |
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| Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action. |
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