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Questions by Susan Vesey
Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Edward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it. |
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| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, adapted by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 20. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The cast is mainly adults, but includes five children. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play adapted from Robert Tressell's classic English Socialist novel of the same name. |
| Synopsis | A group of painters redecorate a house, all the while discussing life and how to make a living whilst being trodden on by their superiors. Frank Owen, one of their number, is a firm socialist who believes his ideals can end the poverty from which they all suffer. Railed against by his peers, can he sway them to his way of thinking, or will he turn to theirs? And, ultimately, will it make a difference either way? |
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| Ragnhild by Charles Eades |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length historical drama. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | The true story of Ragnhild, daughter of a usurped King of Norway. In 956 AD, living in exile on Orkney, Ragnhild must marry Arnfinn, the son of an earl, but she doesn't like her new husband. Through ruthless and murderous schemes, Ragnhild rises in power once more. |
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| Raw Materials by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a cast of two. Simple set - essentially a desk and a pile of rags! |
| Synopsis | John Brown speaks of his troubles trying to get his memoirs of Robert Blincoe, a boy who worked in the cotton mills, published. Robert tells his own story and explains what happened to John Brown himself after three years of failure.
A window onto the industrial revolution. |
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| Reading by Firelight by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Range of (playing) ages from 'the twins' aged eight to their seventy-year-old grandfather. (The twins need not be identical, nor of the same gender.) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching short play (three 'acts', but a total time of only 15 minutes). Single domestic set - mainly indicated by a few essential props. Contains one mild swear-word (which can be dropped at the direcor's discretion). |
| Synopsis | Eddie's family surprise him with a party on his seventieth birthday, but there's a row and his granddaughter leaves suddenly. She returns later to open her heart to the old man and gain some understanding. |
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| Reality? by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one teenager. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Startling fifteen minute play. Single set (just a couch), minimal props. |
| Synopsis | What's going on? They appear to be a family, but they don't agree about who's who - or, indeed anything else!
Parallel universes are colliding in one house, causing confusion about identity, location and time.
(Okay, strictly, if they are parallel it should not be possible for them to collide, but the grammatical part of 'Multiverse' theory is not yet as advanced as the mathematics, so you'll just have to put up with an imprecise description!) |
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| Reasonable Doubt by A.D. Peters |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play in two short acts - courtroom drama and crime - the way the jury sees is, and the way it happened. |
| Synopsis | A tense courtroom drama with the prosecutor battling a slick defence lawyer at the murder trial of social misfit Josephine Mason. The second act takes the form of a flashback portraying the murder of which she is accused. We are left with the dilemma of knowing jury's decision before we learn the identity of the murderer. We are then able to evaluate the justice of the verdict, wherein lies the final twist. |
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| The Rector of Stiffkey by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Essentially, this is a courtroom drama set in the afterlife, with the audience cast as the jury! Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | Harold Davidson has arrived in Limbo, and a lot depends on the nest few minutes - how he accounts for the extraordinary events of his life until his death by mauling will determine where he goes from here. Was he really immoral, or a modern-day saint treated badly by the church?
This is the true story of Harold Davidson known in the 1930s as 'The Rector of Stiffkey'. His unfrocking by the Church of England was a cause celebre but he attained even greater notoriety by later preaching in a lion's den at a circus. |
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The Red Balloon by Damian Trasler
Best Play, GDA Festival 2006
'A breath of fresh air' (competition judge giving 5 awards, Radnor 2010), Performance by Royal Manor Theatre won Best Youth Play at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (bare stage, with a few items of furniture brought on during the piece). Few props. Explores the nature of live theatre! |
| Synopsis | A couple interrupt the premier of a piece of Modern Theatre and claim it's all rubbish. The performer challenges them to produce something better, and the three begin to work on the piece together. What will they come up with by the end of the evening? |
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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers
Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
| Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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