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The Depot by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tightly scripted one-act comedy with good characters and wordplay. comedy. US English. |
Synopsis | The ticket agent and porter at a desolate train station in the 1900s become concerned over a growing odor within the stacked freight and decide to solve the mystery rather than await the Sheriff's arrival. |
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Der Vordere Platz (The Forward Place) by Henry P. Gravelle Winner - Avalonia monologue competition, November 14, 2017. 'Captains monologue Der Vordere Platz' |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama set in a submarine and a bedroom. US English. Some adult content. |
Synopsis | The crew of a WW2 German U-boat under enemy fire contemplate their bleak future. Each individual battles to find his own ‘forward place’ and one of them leaves a surprising final legacy. |
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Detective Mimms and The Snaffler by Geoff Bamber Production by Hyde Little Theate awarded the Certificate of Merit (for performers up to 14 years of age), Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, only the King and Queen should be regarded as prescriptive. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple sets, but these are minimal - indicative only, and in any case most of them are stolen during the course of the play. |
Synopsis | Ace sleuth Detective Mimms is called in to oversee the hunt for the daring thief known only as The Snaffler. The Snaffler will, quite literally, snaffle anything and the whole country is in a state of high anxiety. Can Mimms, assisted by PC Flint, halt this alarming crime wave before it is too late? |
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Detention by Donna Brightwell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One character should be older than the rest of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage actors, with a divided stage set. |
Synopsis | There's been a minor fire in the school Science Lab, and now a group of students find themselves in Detention Hall - until the Principal has spoken to them all and discovered who is behind it. They learn more about each other than the fire. |
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Detour by Kev Salter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Four characters must be played by the same (male) actor. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single airport lounge setting. |
Synopsis | Stranded in a remote Latvian airport as their plane undergoes a bizarre series of repairs, a group of passengers regret choosing a budget airline. |
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The Devil of a Job by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set, divided into earth and hell (as so many sets are). |
Synopsis | Mephistopheles and Lucifer plan to corrupt the soul of an intellectual former demonologist. The demonologist recognises what Mephistopheles is trying to do and succeeds not only in turning him away, but convinces him to do some charity work. |
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The Diabolical Duplication of Daisy by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy. A modern take on the conventions of Victorian melodrama - innocent heroines, scheming wicked squires, that sort of thing. |
Synopsis | Daisy, working with her mother in the kitchens, is trying hard to resist the grubby blandishments of Sir Odious Malpractice, who wants her to marry him. Unknown to Daisy, Victor Tallbody has arrived to tell her she has inherited a fortune, just in the nick of time. |
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The Dial Conspiracy by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Stage crew - optimum number 2, are non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short-ish one act comedy/farce, with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | A crime caper at a remote hotel in the Highlands of Scotland, where weird and wonderful stratagems are used - as a succession of unlikely characters including a surly porter and the driver of a lime green Ferrari, vie with National Security officers. |
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Dialogue by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are written as male, but could be played female without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Unnerving and disturbing, but gripping one-act play. Single simple set. |
Synopsis | Two immortal beings argue about the pros and cons of passing the time by experimenting with creation. Eventually the one who has worked hard on his people and his vision has to admit it's all gone horribly wrong. The other is happy to bring things to a close. |
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The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The voice of God could be a recording (as it so often is). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play (adapted from 'The Diary of Adam Eve' by Mark Twain. Single set (representing the Garden of Eden and what lay beyond), simple props. |
Synopsis | Alone in the Garden of Eden, Adam is bored and, though he doesn't realise it, lonely. Of course, God has the answer... What follows is told through the diaries of those involved. |
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