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Transfusion by Daniel Taylor-Brown |
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 | A one act drama - adult themes, with various settings - compound set suitable. |
Synopsis | Terminally ill Carol is being cared for at home by her trainee-nurse son, Ben. Their very close relationship stands up to the stresses and strains involved and they are also able to help Ben's boyfriend Max deal with his homophobic parents. Ultimately Ben has to take drastic steps to give Carol an optimistic future. |
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Trick Or Treat [One-Act Play] by Ron Asher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a simple set. US English. Adult content. |
Synopsis | Tom reluctantly lets in a late trick-or-treater on Halloween. Felix is after more than candy, however, and Tom isn’t sure he’s ready. If Felix does intend to stay with Tom, there’ll be a price to pay, whether Felix wants to or not. |
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Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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The Victory of the Revolution by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Seven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The Cuban revolution, reviewed through Fidel Castro's 1966 chess match against the Mexican master Filiberto Terrazas. |
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The Visitor by Dean Laccohee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set (a psychiatrist's office), simple props. A play with things to say about seizing the moment, and about our reactions to hardship and suffering. |
Synopsis | A patient gives his psychiatrist a few problems by claiming to come from a distant planet. His belief can't be shaken, and worse, he says the world is going to end very soon. Will Dr Collinghurst accept his offer of a ride on his spaceship, or at least ask Nurse Elizabeth out before Doomsday? |
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When We Were Young by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with minimum staging requirements) set in World War One. |
Synopsis | Six monologues from three different characters, set during the First World War. Two soldiers who were childhood friends, recound their wartime experiences, as does a nurse who meets one of the men when he becomes one of the many casualties of the Great War |
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Where There's Blame by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, minimal set requirements, simple props, three strong characters and an involving story. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Lennie is fronting an accident claim company to raise money for his property speculating in Spain, Tina's waiting for Kevin to bring her some money for the week's shopping, but he's got caught up with Lennie's pie in the sky. |
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Wilfred and Len by Stephen Mercer Winner Cheltenham One Act Festival 2006 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, with a single (railway station platform) setting. |
Synopsis | It is November 1918 and the Great War is about to end. A young soldier waiting for his train is joined by poet Major Wilfred Owen. They have a deep conversation about their army experiences and the war, but all is not as it seems... |
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Within Required Parameters by Kelly Read Production by Woodhouse Players won the 'Best Stage Presentation' award at the 2014 Waltham Forest Festival of Drama. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama set in the side-room of a hospital ward. |
Synopsis | Martin is in hospital, awaiting surgery that will prevent another heart attack, but he's more worried about his wife. She has Alzheimer's, and his niece is trying to look after her. He needs his operation, and he needs to get home, but there's a problem with his insurance... |
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You And Me Makes Three by Mark Seaman Performance by The Sodbury Players Drama Group picked-up the adjudicator's award at the Avon Festival and the Best Actor award at The Cheltenham Festival, 2010 |
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 | Emotionally-charged one-act play. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Paul and Kathy have just returned from Tony's funeral. Though remaining outwardly happy with one another, Kathy remembers the brief affair she had with Tony that might have made him the father of her dead child, and Paul remembers cutting Tony out of their lives, and regrets it. |
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