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The Return Of Lady Bracknell by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the female characters is intended to be doubled (hence there are seven roles for six people). |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, messing with theatre and reality. The action takes place on a rehearsal stage, so little required in the way of set. Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's two weeks to the production of 'The importance of being Earnest' and Rebecca has flu, so there's no one to play Lady Bracknell. Except... this strange lady, dressed for the part, who knows all the lines and stays in character all the time... |
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A Right How-Do-You-Do! by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with two simple (theatre and living room) settings. |
Synopsis | The local drama group is rehearsing its next production, a pantomime, but casting is difficult, and relationships between the members become strained, and not a little illicit, as infidelities blossom and come to a surprising end. |
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Ripping Off Angels by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!) |
Synopsis | The Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels! |
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Saving The Planet, Maybe by Eric Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. All characters are high school students aged thirteen plus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play suitable for youth theatre, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Allison has written a play she's planning to direct, but her cast are a mixed bunch - either too professional or not nearly professional enough. Her would-be boyfriend David is on hand to help, but real environmental issues get in the way of this play about environmental issues. |
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Scene Six by Andrew McGuirk |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The 'director' is an offstage voice and could be doubled by 'David'. The characters appear in a flashback as their childhood selves. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Character drama with plenty of acting challenges. Structured in two acts, but, at around 55 minutes, of one-act length. (Includes some swearing.) |
Synopsis | Two old friends and a new acquaintance decide to put on a play, but the assigned parts, emotional attachments, and the ruthlessness of the director cause rifts between the three. |
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Scripted by Brenna McBride |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
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Securing the Sponsor by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Leonard and the director have masculine names, any of the characters could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | For many shows, securing a sponsor to help finance the production is a crucial task. It doesn't always go as well as this... |
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Sent Back Standing by Jenny Gilbert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. An uneven distrubution of roles, with the play dominated with the director (though, unusually in these circumstances, the director is on stage). |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set (pretty much a bare stage). |
Synopsis | A director struggles to keep her sanity through the stresses of a Tech rehearsal in a venue that's being rebuilt around the company. She's also haunted by her husband's affair, and trying to work through her private grief in a very public place. |
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Set to and Build by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy during which parts of the set are built on-stage - sort of. |
Synopsis | An AmDram crew meets ahead of the new show to build the set. Arguments over creative vision versus available materials, colours and building techniques, not to mention accidents, strain relations. |
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Seven Ages of Love by Robert Burns |
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 play with an interesting structure. (As our reviewer remarked, 'It's what you'd get if MC Escher was a playwright'.) Several locations, but can be done with indicative sets. Contains a mild swearword. |
Synopsis | Mike's written a play about his failed love, telling the story in reverse for the benefit of his friend Phil. If you run a sad love story backwards, you end up with a happy ending, don't you? |
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