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The Pilgrim's Progress by Christopher Morgan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props. |
| Synopsis | A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven. |
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| A Pilot's Thoughts at the End of the War by Philippa Roberts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Whilst this is a monologue, there is an option for a group of mournful dancers. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute serious monologue with no set or prop requirements. |
| Synopsis | The war in question is the Second World War, and the pilot is regretting participating in the bombing of Dresden. |
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| Plain Women, Forgotten Men by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A trio of short one act plays with single (simple) settings which could be performed separately, or together as a set. |
| Synopsis | In 'Baggy Trousers' - elderly Sid relives his youth and poignantly remembers his late wife in conversation with an, at first, uninterested Social Worker. 'Two Left Feet' sees sad divorcee Jo find her salvation from depression, and the approbation of sister Carole on the dance floor. In 'Out of Print' - formerly famous children's book writer Erica - now in her eighties - finds that her works are no longer published, but finds encouragement by a letter from a fan. Each play is available to buy separately. |
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| The Plan by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue for a teenage girl. Single set (her bedroom) can be represented minimally. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | The plan was hatched between Donna and her friend Kaylee, and at the end of it, one of them was going to be going out with Danny, the swimming pool lifeguard. But which one? And would things actually go to plan? |
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| Playing Out by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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| Point of Departure by Mike Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cameo role - the acquaintance - is written male, but could be of either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play set in a car. How the car is realised is left to the discretion of the producer - though the script does empahsise that cars tend to make a noise. |
| Synopsis | Bill and Jane are dropping off an acquaintance when he makes an innocent remark. Bill suddenly realizes there's something he doesn't know about Jane, something small but significant and he wants to talk about it more than he wants to drive home. |
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Politically Correct by Jennifer Marie Sancho
Runner-up in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The four female characters are intended to be accurate representations of historical people. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act drama with a single 'common room' setting. |
| Synopsis | Four inmates of an assylum rebel. Jane Austen, Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and Florence Nightingale must work together to agree a plan to escape from their incarceration. |
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| Pompeii Up! by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Further parts could be added at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of music. |
| Music | Two musical suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short one act play, suitable for a school assembly. |
| Synopsis | In this piece we have information and entertainment, with facts and figures from the eruption of Vesuvius - which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
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The Pop Man by David Titchener
Performances by Tomorrow Productions won awards for Best All-Male Cast & Best Male Performance (Tamworth Hastilow Drama Festival, 2008) and Best Original Play (BFame AETF Festival, 2008) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (In the original production, part of the run time came from the actors playing darts.) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a simple - bar - setting. |
| Synopsis | Two friends in a pub talk over old times, and one admits something that's been bothering him a lot - is the man he remembers as his dad ACTUALLY his father? Or was it someone else? |
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| Potted Austen: Emma by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
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