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There's Something about Bernard by Richard James
Performance by Dunvegan Players won the Philip Rose Bowl, Scottish One Act Play Festival, Skye Division, 2010 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (simple, domestic) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bernard's wife, best friend and daughter are gathered to surprise him with a party on his birthday, but it's his ex-wife who walks in first. Some hard truths are exchanged, and in the end, it's Bernard who surprises them all. |
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| There's Something Under the Bed by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids - designed for a whole school class. Single bedroom set. |
| Synopsis | A child who fears going to bed visits the word of dreams, and helps save the dream factory from being sabotaged by the Bad Dream Gang. |
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These Are The Days by Shari Gledhill
TOPs (The Oldland Players) won 1st place at the Bristol One Act Drama Festival 2024 for their production of 'These Are The Days'. The group also won awards for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Lighting and the Audience Award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act dramatic duologue with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Married couple Matt and Vicki re-live their relationship from its unlikely beginnings to its poignantly tragic end. |
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| Theseus - The Journey To Athens by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Additional chorus members could be included. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for including the song |
| Music | One song with score provided with the Producer's copy of the script |
| Style | A one act play for a class-sized cast, with an optional finishing song. |
| Synopsis | A fun presentation of an early episode in the life of a hero, Theseus.
It could be used as the first part of a double bill with 'Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur'. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| They Called Her Tante Anna by Elisabeth Marrion |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical drama suitable for educational use. Three simple settings.
First published June 2023, revised 2024. |
| Synopsis | From December 1938 until the outbreak of WWII, ten thousand Jewish children were evacuated from Nazi Germany to England on the Kindertransport. This is the story of some of those children. |
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| Thick and Thin by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - the philosophy of the relationship between sport and life. The characters are in stadium seats, so could be a very simple set. Contains very strong language. |
| Synopsis | Three football (soccer!) fans are watching the fourth rematch in a cup game and discussing the benefits of tactics, the importance of buying season tickets over paying rent, the influence of women and what to eat during the match. |
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| A Thirty Minute As You Like It by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is scope for additional lords and servants. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Family persecutions drive Rosalind and Orlando from their respective homes and into exile in the Forest of Arden. Rosalind disguises herself as a boy, Ganymede, who catches the eye of Phebe, a shepherdess who is, in turn the object of the attention of a shepherd called Silvius. Thus is confusion added to the pastoral romance, but, eventually, all the tangled threads are resolved. |
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| A Thirty Minute Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Not many acting companies boast two sets of identical twins! The production notes offer some sensible routes to make the look-alike comedy work. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | The ultimate tale of mistaken identity as two sets of identical twins, separated as infants, cross paths as adults to the confusion of all concerned. |
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| A Thirty Minute Merchant by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Bassanio is broke and needs ready money so that he can court Portia, a beautiful Heiress. He goes to his friend Antonio - the merchant - for a loan, but all Antonio's money is tied up in his shipping ventures. On the strength of his business, Antonio borrows from Shylock, the money lender, but when Antonio's vessels are lost at sea, Shylock calls in the loan. A court case follows, heard by an unexpected stand-in judge.
An introduction to Shakespeare for primary schools. |
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| A Thirty Minute Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', with the original text cut down to around 40 minutes (despite the title!)
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | A comedy of mistaken identity, as the shipwrecked Viola poses as a page boy at the court of the Duke of Orsino, where she falls for the Duke, whilst Olivia, the object of the Duke's affections, is smitten with the handsome page boy! All ends happily, but only after a great deal of confusion, and the arrival of Viola's lost twin brother.
An introduction to Shakespeare for primary schools. |
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