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| Disconnected by Paul L. Harwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Several characters appear as (old) adults and their youthful selves. This is open to being done by two actors or by one acting different ages. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set which morphs into different locations. An exploration of time, decisions and consequences. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bernie is an old man, but he's haunted by the consequences of a promise he made to his childhood friend Joe, who died in World War Two. Now Bernie is reliving important moments of his life - could he really be about to undo the most disastrous decision he ever made? |
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| Disguise by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A modern comedic reworking of The Siena Academy's Gl'ingannati, the principal source for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. |
| Synopsis | A twin sister disguises herself as a boy to get the man she loves, only to find that when her identical twin brother shows up, he is mistaken for her. This play forms act two of Amore by the same author. |
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| Disloyalty by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama |
| Synopsis | After twenty years of marriage Chris is unimpressed when her husband Gary buys her a present of an exercise mat. Having used every excuse possible to delay her exercise session, including housework and a coffee with her best friend Lou, she feels duty bound to give it a go and feel the burn. It is during this exercise session that Gary arrives home and drops the bombshell. |
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| Do Me A Favour by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. It needs to be performed in its entirety, but because of its structure - a series of seven prison visits - it could be performed front of curtain as part of a sketch show. Contains extreme swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bill's banged up inside, and Ben is his regular visitor. Since Ben owes Bill, it's only natural that he should carry out any instructions the senior villain gives him. Even if they are a bit... iffy. eventually Bill gives one order too many and a little while later their positions are reversed. |
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| Do You Come Here Often by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, requiring little more than a bench. (Oh, all right, some actors as well.) |
| Synopsis | Two men meet when they both retreat from their wives to a peaceful bench. They swap tales of woe, then retire to the pub just before their wives enter and give each other the other side of the story. Domestic bliss! |
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| Do You Mind by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in the stalls of a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As the audience settle down in the auditorium to watch a play they find that their lives are all inter-connected in some way This is welcome to some but causes embarrassing difficulties for others. |
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| Does My Bum Look Big In This? by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adult comedy set at a café table. Australian settings but with opportunities for customising to other locations. |
| Synopsis | Long-time Aussie friends Donna, Janice and Sharon meet for coffee, prior to Janice flying off to attend her sister's wedding. Their get together is suddenly interrupted with news that the wedding has been called off. |
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| The Dog Sitters by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers. (Could be played by that mix, or by teenagers with make-up!) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
| Synopsis | A group of girls invited to house-sit and look after a dog for an evening take the opportunity for an impromptu party, during which there is a problem with the dog... |
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| Doggonit by Tim O'Brien |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Since most of the characters are dogs, the gender of the actors doesn't really matter. (Most of their owners are female.) There is an optional, flexible chorus with various groups of dogs, owners and security guards. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | Dogs, of course, can talk - but only to each other. The exception is Dakota - a dog trained to speak in secret by his owner, Caitlin. But this leads to trouble for them both after a disturbance at Ms Nancy's School of Dog Obedience, leading to an encounter with the sinister Dr. Live - a wicked scientist with a mission to create the perfect dog...
Every dog has his day. (Dogs with no tails have weak ends.) |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Doggy Noire by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are animals. (All literally, some figuratively.) The characters are nominally 4M, 1F, but in the context, there's a lot of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single setting. Contains adult themes and language (although in the context of dogs, 'bitch' is not necessarily a term of abuse).
Noire as in 'bête noire' rather than 'film noir'. (No hard-boiled detectives.) |
| Synopsis | Bonzo the enforcer has brought Paulette the Poodle to the bridge, as arranged, but who is being set up for a fall? When Big Fido arrives, it turns out there may not be any winners, since the rats that come with him have grudges of their own. |
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