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| With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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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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| The Wooing Of Isabella by Natasha Marie Eyre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, set in the thirteenth century. |
| Synopsis | Lady Isabella is a worthy prize - with lands and income, but she has no wish to marry Simon de Montford, or give herself over to the nearby Priory. Harrassed by those around her, she uses her friend and kinswoman Emma to keep all at bay until the matter can be resolved. |
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| Wordsworth's Harem by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act historical, emotional drama in a single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | In 1801, William Wordsworth is in love with his sister Dorothy. To hide their forbidden relationship, the siblings plan a marriage for William. |
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Work in Progress by Damian Trasler
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2000, and Winner of the Adjudicator's Award, Anglesey Drama Festival 2005. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set, argument amongst Film Noir characters and their writer! |
| Synopsis | An author struggles to complete a book, contending with his publishing deadline and a group of characters determined to assert their identity. |
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| Working Man by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principals (including one child) plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script is accompanied by piano and vocal scores for one instrumental and six songs. |
| Style | Full-length musical play inspired by the paintings of Alexander Millar, set on Tyneside in the heyday of the shipyards. |
| Synopsis | Johnson's shipyard is under new management, but the new boss is unpopular - he's stopped the beer allowance, for one thing. The men strike, but are sacked. They need to find a better way to get him to change his mind. What about going back to workwithout pay? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks for the opening instrumental and six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Opening instrumental and vocal demo tracks for the six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Ten high resolution images of paintings from the Working Man collection by Alexander Millar for projection during performances of Working Man by Peter Nuttall
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| The Worst Day of My Life by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there are only four named characters, the setting is a classroom, so there is an option for extras as 'other members of the class' |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Zoe isn't having a good day, what with her brother, her diet and then her ruined German homework, but it turns out her day isn't half as bad as her classmate Holly's. |
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| The Wow Factor by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for youth theatre or schools.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Two officials conduct an unusual interview with a newly-arrived alien... |
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| Writes And Wrongs by Andy Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | David is attending a local writers' group for the first time, and he's nervous. He's joined to meet Pauline, a published poet, but it's not really her literary abilities that are making him stammer. |
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| Wuthering Heights by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with minimal settings, adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. |
| Synopsis | A duo of comic narrators guide us through the familiar story including all of the important characters with the exception of Heathcliff who unfortunately could not attend. His last minute replacement - Tarzan! - admirably fills his shoes. |
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