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| He's Coming To Dinner by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast are two adults and two teenage children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama about family life! Single interior setting. |
| Synopsis | Marianne is trying to get her teenage children ready for an evening with the new man in her life. Her son is happy that it's anyone but his father, but his sister isn't convinced. When their Dad walks in, no one is quite sure how they feel about it. |
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| He's Dead by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length murder thriller. |
| Synopsis | Rose's horrific nightmares become reality when her friend Maria is fatally stabbed. As the plot twists and turns ulterior motives are gradually revealed. |
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| A Heart-Shaped Cushion by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The patients can be any age from about thirty-five to sixty-five. Beth and Tom should be about the same age. Doubling and trebling-up is possible with a minimum of one man and six women |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama following a patient's experience with breast cancer, through chemo and physiotherapy, to exiting the treatment. |
| Synopsis | Along the way we meet people dealing with similar experiences. |
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| Heedless Spirits by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are older teenagers or young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers. Single, simple set, few props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Six young people in a cinema, waiting for a film to start. Two were once an item and are trying to ignore each other. Two are attracted to each other, to the disdain of their friends. Two aren't sure why they're there. |
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| An Heir for the King by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Optional chorus size |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Full score set available with the Producer's copy. |
| Style | A one act musical, portraying rich and poor, generosity and meanness. |
| Synopsis | A caring old king who is feeling his age decides that for the good of his kingdom he needs to find an heir before it is too late. The question is: Whom will he choose? After deciding to adopt an heir, he embarks on a quest to a distant town in his kingdom - to meet their orphans. He comes across assorted characters who treat him quite differently. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Heksejag by S. Ardern (vertaal deur Ronèl de Beer) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Minimum mansrolle = 4. Minimum vrouerolle = 2. Minimum totaal met doeblering = 12. Minimum totaal sonder doeblering = 14. Koor. Alle karakters is volwassenes, maar die teks is geskryf vir tieners. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | 'n Eenakter met basiese rekwisiete en geen dekorvereistes nie. Baie koorwerk. |
| Synopsis | Wanneer 'n ou tannie in haar gehuggie intrek, word sy eers met vyandigheid begroet. Mettertyd veroorsaak haar kennis van natuurlike medisyne egter dat sy die gemeenskap se respek wen. Die moeilikheid begin wanneer siektes en hongersnood uitbreek en die ou tannie van heksery beskuldig word. (Heksejag is an Afrikaans translation of Witch Hunt by Stuart Ardern.) |
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| A Helping Hand by Peter Hale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two strong roles for 1M, 1F (though Mary could be changed to male with only a few small alterations). |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy - wry, rather than laugh-out-loud, possibly more sinister undertones if subtly played. Easy to stage on one living room set. |
| Synopsis | Mary, a harassed social services official, is visiting the old people in her district to update the database. George, an apparently lonely widower, is initially uncooperative. When Mary finds herself staying longer than expected, the barriers come down - and Mary is taught not to patronise the elderly. |
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| Henry and the Rocket by Eseld Swift |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are male (apart from the storyteller and the cat, whose gender is unspecified), but that does not matter for casting purposes. Optional chorus of shipwrecked sailors. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with lead sheets (vocal line music) for the two songs which are intended to be sung unaccompanied. |
| Style | A one act historical drama for schools, with various (easily suggested) settings. |
| Synopsis | Based on the life and work of Henry Trengrouse and his invention of a Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus the consequences of lives lost at sea are brought vividly to life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Henry V Revisited by David Baldwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length revised version of the Shakespearean play. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's famous play about the battle of Agincourt is updated, and Chorus reveals and explains the historical facts. The essentials of the original play are covered and the 'St. Crispin's Day' speech is retained unaltered. |
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| Henry VIII and his Six Wives - Mini Plays by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times from 2 to 7 minutes) for a school class studying The Tudors (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 7 'Why did Henry Marry Six Times'). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | A set of five plays, each for six characters, reviewing the life and times of the Tudor monarch from sporty to portly. The cast speak directly to the audience as well as interacting with each other. (Designed to be used in a variety of ways including as 'group readers'.) Play 1 deals with Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Play 2 covers Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, Play 3 brings in Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard, Play 4 introduces Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, and Play 5 is a brief review from the point of view of the six wives. |
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