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Family History by Deborah Hugill
A performance by Allerton Players won the David Crumpton Memorial Cup at the Nidderdale Deams Festival in 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two actors converying multiple characters. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Minimal set with changes conveyed by lighting. Lots of good challenges for the actors. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
| Synopsis | Grace is finally opening up to her partner Joe about her family. This begins with with the totally unexpected revelation that her father died more than a year previously. Joe struggles to understand Grace's past relationship with her family, and to help her see the future they could have together. |
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| Family Matters by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Cast includes 5 children (of secondary school age) and two offstage adult voices. |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun script for a lively show that accommodates a number of younger actors. Structurally in two acts, but run-time on the boundary between full-length and one-act. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Susan tries to steer her five children through a regular school day, while also dealing with her mother, her father, and her sister, as well as the helpful advice of her husband, who's out of the country for work. |
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| The Family Planning Clinic by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (or four pieces of furniture to indicate a set). |
| Synopsis | When Suzie visits her local Family Planning Clinic, the advice she receives is not quite what she expected |
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| Family Spirit by Pat Wollaston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play in two acts (in length, somewhere on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length - that is to say, another shorter piece could be fitted in the same program if desired). Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | When Arthur dies, he's a little surprised to find that he's still in his old house. His guide angel, Simon, explains that he's being assessed to determine which way he goes next, but there are a few complications between Arthur's funeral and his final destination. |
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| Family Ties by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All characters are adults, with a range of ages. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama in three acts. Single domestic set. Contains swearing, intolerance and other forms of familial behaviour. |
| Synopsis | It's Ted's sixtieth birthday and Doris has planned a family get together. Son Ian and his wife Sally only live down the road, but Paul has been living away in London, and doesn't get on with his Dad. It was always going to be tough, but Paul lets slip a devastating secret. |
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| Family Time by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 35. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. The cast list can be very flexible, with doubling or additional parts. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 5 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy for children, with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | The schoolchildren are looking forward with excitement to the summer holidays, except for Marty whose mum has boring plans for the family... We join Marty on an emotional journey, as he learns a few lessons in what is really important. |
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Family Vacation by Brooklyn Fredrickson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. The roles are a mix of adults and children, but the style would suit a school or large youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single (tropical beach) set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Stan has taken his family on an exotic vacation, but his daughter is heartbroken, his son is petrified of sharks, and his wife won’t stick to the itinerary. The whole family have to learn to relax, or they’ll need another vacation. |
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| Famous People of the Twentieth Century by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five scripts, six characters per script. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
| Synopsis | Five short plays looking at the lives of famous people from the 20th century, including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and a group of famous women : Diana, Princess of Wales, Margaret Thatcher, Madame Curie, Mother Theresa, Anne Frank and Helen Keller.
The scripts are aligned to the English National Curriculum, Key Stages 1 & 2, History Syllabus Unit 20 ('What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?'), Citizenship Unit 5 (Living in a Diverse World) plus the R.E. Unit on Famous People. |
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| A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall. |
| Synopsis | A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage. |
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| Fantasy Games by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two children and their mother, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short skit. Single (minimal) set, but would be best costumed. |
| Synopsis | Two teenage online gaming addicts are hassled to do their daily chores by their mother. |
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