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Detention by Donna Brightwell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One character should be older than the rest of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage actors, with a divided stage set. |
Synopsis | There's been a minor fire in the school Science Lab, and now a group of students find themselves in Detention Hall - until the Principal has spoken to them all and discovered who is behind it. They learn more about each other than the fire. |
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Devil in the Detail by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, set in the less favourable regions of the afterlife. |
Synopsis | Harry is newly arrived in Hell and he's not happy about it, but Claude De Ville isn't open to appeals. Harry is given an assignment to bring a soul back to Hell in exchange for eternity away from the Sulphur Mines. But the man in question has help on his side... |
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Dialogue by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are written as male, but could be played female without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Unnerving and disturbing, but gripping one-act play. Single simple set. |
Synopsis | Two immortal beings argue about the pros and cons of passing the time by experimenting with creation. Eventually the one who has worked hard on his people and his vision has to admit it's all gone horribly wrong. The other is happy to bring things to a close. |
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Diamond In The Sky by Mike Standing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama with two simple settings |
Synopsis | The Cosmic Eagle has been hurled through space and time from an alternative universe into the 21st century. The crew are confused when they land near a medieval battle taking place in mid-Wales. The Re-enactment Society are equally confused when they are beamed up to the spacecraft. |
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A Different League by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on three simple sets. This is the sequel to Three Nil Down At Half Time, also published by Lazy Bee Scripts. The two can be performed individually or together. |
Synopsis | A football team are looking forward to the new season when disaster strikes and the girls' league they are due to play in is disbanded. Fortunately (although much to the consternation of several parents), the team receive an unexpected invitation to play in a boy's league. |
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Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. |
Synopsis | A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it? |
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Dig In For Murder by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller. |
Synopsis | Tensions rise as final preparations for tomorrow's village fete become fractious and old enmities come to the surface. This results in a gruesome murder in the garden shed and everyone, including the vicar, is suspect. |
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Digging Up Edwin Plant by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in two settings. |
Synopsis | Bernard's been looking for traces of his old school bully - has he changed since the bad old days? Are these poems really by him, and if so, do they indicate regret? Lucy doesn't think so. |
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Digging up the Past by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute dramatic monologue (featuring some black comedy). |
Synopsis | A building site manager struggles to cope when a body is discovered on school playing fields. When archaeologists turn up to excavate a Saxon burial ground, things take a turn for the worse. |
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Dinner at Luigi's by Brian Coyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama with a single (restaurant) setting. |
Synopsis | A mother and her two grown-up children get together for a celebration meal. As dinner is served, the dynamics of their dysfunctional relationship are uncovered and family secrets revealed for the first time. The meal descends into deeper and deeper water. |
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