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A Dangerous Game by Geoff Rose-Michael Nominated for New Writing Award and Best Actor Award (Chris) at the Leatherhead Drama Festival 2015, and for Stage Presentation Award and Best Actress Award (Ellie) at Southern Counties Drama Festival 2015. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Ellie and her partner, Fi, have an on-going dilemma, with no foreseeable way out, but they are prepared to play a dangerous game that could have serious consequences should the truth come out... |
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Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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Darling Deborah by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single set dramatising events from the Diary of Samuel Pepys much in the manner of a Restoration Comedy. |
Synopsis | A Victorian Transcriber is outlining sections of Samuel Pepys' diary as the events therein are brought to life by Pepys, Mrs Pepys and servant girl Deborah, reflecting the bawdy nature of 17th Century theatre. |
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Darts! by Lucy Turmaine |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play, set in a public bar - with space for a darts game, and with a second minimal set. |
Synopsis | It's ladies darts night and the team face their arch-rivals, the team from the White Lion. Rivalries in darts, love and life will raise their heads, but the conclusion of the night will see changes for almost everyone. Intended for adult audiences. |
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The Date by Franco Ambriz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Filomena may be dead, but she has a speaking part! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] First staged reading ran to 25 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful, intriguing, American one act drama with a single (apartment room) set. Some strong, but appropriate language. |
Synopsis | A psychological drama digging into a family's past and its effect on their present. |
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Dating by Jonathan Edgington A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 playwriting competition, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Single (minimal set representing a corner of a wine bar). Lots of character work built from a very short script. |
Synopsis | Eve and her friend Hope are comparing war stories of dating, even though Hope already has her man sorted. Just as Eve seems to have given up, she literally runs into Peter, an associate of her ex-husband. But is he too good to be true? |
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Dave, Who's Dave? by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play, with a single (studio apartment) set. |
Synopsis | Jessica is appalled when Dave walks into her twenty-first century apartment demanding that she leaves, as it belongs to him. She is confused when he claims that the year is 1946, and that Phyllis, his cleaning lady supports that claim. Dave declares that he works at the police station... But who is this unwelcome guest and what is he really up to? |
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Dawn Of A New Day by Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
Synopsis | During the second world war a disparate group of people find themselves entering an amorphous place, somewhere between life and death. Meaningful relationships develop as they await their destiny and the futility of war becomes clear. |
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Dawn of Remembrance by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A nicely written single-set short with a good handle on the tragedies of war and how they affect the mind. |
Synopsis | Two soldiers in France, during World War 2, discuss what they have been through and what they miss about home, ruminating on how war has changed them forever. |
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Day of Days by Allan Williams 'Day of Days' was Finalist at the British All Winners One-Act festival, July 2012, on the way to which the production picked-up numerous awards including Best Play, Best Actor and Best Individual Performance. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set (which can be done with minimal staging.) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Maggie has some news for Tom. Unexpected news. News of his long-distant past - a time he has forgotten, or perhaps he wanted to forget... |
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