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Take Three Girls by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are six teenagers plus one adult (assumed to be all played by teenage actors) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Studio theatre piece - multiple scenes, but little set required. Set in the present day. |
Synopsis | The vacations of Keira, Emily and Megan don't turn out the way they'd planned. |
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Take-Away by Pat Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two older teens and two middle-aged characters. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play of shorter length, split set - in two flats with a lift, set between them. |
Synopsis | Gail and Josh share a flat, but their relationship has soured - Josh is harsh and demanding, and Gail is quiet and compliant. The Barnstables live in the flat across from them, an older couple with a happy marriage. But no one seems happy with the way things are between Josh and Gail - not even Josh. |
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Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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Talking in the Library by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with a single (library) setting. |
Synopsis | The disparate group of regulars at the library along with the librarian and his assistant discover things about each other, and perhaps more importantly themselves and their relationships, over the course of a few weeks. |
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The Taming of the Shrew [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Shakespeare's play efficiently cut down without damaging the flow of the story. A comedy in the renaissance sense of ordinary people, witty dialogue and a happy ending. Contains Shakespearean insults. |
Synopsis | Bianca has many suitors, but her father won't let her marry until he has also given away the hand of her hot-tempered and uncontrollable elder sister Katharina. While Lucentio concocts a plan to win Bianca as his wife, Petruchio decides to wed Katharina and subdue her shrewish nature. |
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A Tangled Web by Donna Brightwell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male considerably older than other characters. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play with a single set (living-dining room). |
Synopsis | Wanting to 'bring back proper society', Grace is throwing a traditional Dinner Party for the cream of local society. But a thunderstorm of biblical proportions, a lack of caterers and the death of a guest may bring... success? |
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Tea With Mrs Pankhurst by Ruth Urquhart & James Douglas |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles). |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set. |
Synopsis | The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage. |
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Team Building by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with an all-female cast. |
Synopsis | When new boss Carter insists on a team building day comprising a run through a wood, one group of employees is less than impressed. The reluctant women soon find ways to avoid joining in, but eventually find that unity can be achieved. |
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Telling It by Annie Connell New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Two settings, but easily combined into a single set. |
Synopsis | As two officers interview a woman claiming to be the victim of domestic violence, problems with her story make them suspicious. Despite her deception, she's still a victim, and it looks like there could be a violent offender out there. |
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The Tempest [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The character list, like all of Shakespeare's work, is male-heavy. That has not prevented excellent productions by majority female casts! |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of Shakespeare on the boundary between a one-act and a full-lengh play. All words remain Shakespeare's, with one short speech added by the abridger to facilitate a character exit. |
Synopsis | Since being usurped as Duke of Milan by his brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have lived on a deserted island. With the help of the spirit Ariel, he causes a tempest that shipwrecks his passing enemies. He aims to regain his dukedom and marry Miranda to Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples. |
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