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| On Unofficial Business by Craig Sandeman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An inspirational one act play mixing comedy with delicately handled pathos within the imaginative setting of a prison van! Contains swearing (and a lot of other things). |
| Synopsis | Prisoners Tam, Lenny and Bruce are being transferred to another jail when their van is hijacked by Christine who is struggling with her own desperate situation. As they hide in a forest clearing the unlikely quartet slowly become a unit, offering heart-warming and amusing support one for the other as they sit around the camp fire and gradually bare their souls. |
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| Once a Jolly Farmer by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Lots of great opportunities for character acting. Marion has a pit-bull attitude and biting lines to match. Tricia is naive with lots of opportunity for comic overacting. Sharon is the sexy vixen, Dad the confused old buffer, and so on. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (farm shop) set. |
| Synopsis | Tricia's first day of work experience at the Farm Shop is a real experience, as Charles' mistress shows up unexpectedly and Tricia is recruited into the plot to keep her apart from Marion, Charles' wife. |
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| Once Upon A Time In Fairyland by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When the magic mirror tells the Queen she's not as fair as Snow White, the miffed monarch sets off to the Seven Dwarfs' bar where the mirror says Snow is working, only to find Goldilocks hiding out from the three bears there. Will Snow White be at the Prince's Ball? The hunt is on... |
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| Once... by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Opportunity for large 'Greek chorus' delivering commentary on the action. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fable, partly narrated by newspaper reporters (in the style of The Times and The Sun), commentary by the chorus. Simple sets, simple costumes, emphasis on participation. |
| Synopsis | Upset at receiving a late invitation to Princess Rainbow's party, Beldesire curses the postman's son: his first kiss will turn him into a toad. That same postman's son later rescues the Princess from a Dragon, but how will they live happily ever after? |
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| Oncology by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama fuelled by family (and medical) tensions. |
| Synopsis | Set in a clinic where Edna and her daughter wait for the results of a recent test, surrounded by a madcap collection of patients and relatives who have an underlying serious story to tell. |
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| One in the Eye by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Since the characters include 'William's Army' and 'Harold's Army' the numbers are rather vague (or very flexible, depending on the gloss you want to apply). Most of the characters are supposedly male, but don't let that stop you. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for six original songs (one of which is reprised). |
| Style | An educational, historical, rhyming comedy musical. (There. What does that leave out?) |
| Synopsis | The story of the Harold, the last Saxon king of England who proves adept at dealing with his riotous brothers and Viking invaders, but is finally overcome by William, Duke of Normandy, with his secret weapon... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Onion Rings: The Tale Of A Very Bad Date by Susan Gayle Haws |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. An additional 8 to 12 band/crowd characters can be played by actors on stage or as pre-recorded voices. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Shirley has returned to her hometown after 40 years for a school reunion. She has been in Facebook contact with Bill, also from her school, and has accepted his invitation to dinner. Things do not go according to plan, Bill’s addiction to onion rings being the least of Shirley’s problems. |
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| The Open Window by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A blackly comic stage adaptation of one of Saki's subversive stories. Two locations, but neither need be elaborate (so could be done in a 'black box' with small items of furniture). Aimed at secondary schools, but could be done by adults. |
| Synopsis | Framton has been sent to the country as a rest cure for his nerves. However, his encounter with his doctor's cousin, Gertrude, and her neices is anything but calming. |
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| The Order of the Pink Pantyhose by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An old-fashioned 'play' on manners and a light-hearted spoof of the traditional murder mystery. |
| Synopsis | Four elderly women-a fidgety hostess, her grumpy cousin, a southern belle, and a British cynic--sit down for afternoon tea. One is a murderer in disguise, one a detective in disguise, one a humanitarian worker in disguise, and one an innocent bystander (also in disguise). Conversation soon turns from the state of the weather to the untimely death of Great-Aunt Charlotte Robinson (the undercover leader of band of pantyhose thieves). And before you can say 'pink pantyhose,' an innocent tea party has turned into a dangerous (if slightly silly) game of 'who dun it?' |
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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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