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| Origins by Martin Sadler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single (hotel room) setting. Adult themes and language. |
| Synopsis | Harry has booked a hotel room to rekindle his former relationship with Min, who has since married. Their idyll is frustrated as first Min’s married daughter Rosie arrives, accompanied by new love Harris. Hot on their heels come Min’s husband Geoffrey and Rosie’s husband Keith. |
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| Orville Station by Frank J. Avella |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One offstage role for voice announcement. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama, with strong language, set in a railway station in New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Synopsis | Lenny is twenty five, a screenwriter wannabe, living in a small town in New Jersey. He has completed one script that was met with universal rejection and has allowed fear and his family to rule his life. Lenny usually hangs out with his two best friends from High School often catching the train to NYC, but this place has the notoriety of most train deaths per year, usually suicides. Here Chizzy meets up and befriends Lenny, triggering a major re-think for Lenny's life-purpose. |
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| Oscar's Adventure by Patricia Munene |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are animals from south-west Africa. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children set amidst Namibian wildlife! |
| Synopsis | Oscar is a Cheetah cub, living in a refuge, but he dreams of leaving and finding his mother. Helped to escape, he meets two other cubs and their mother, but not his own family. They adopt him and teach him to be wild, but Oscar still has some things to teach them. |
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| Oscar's Sale by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Farce. Two acts in structure, but of one-act length. |
| Synopsis | As Punch and Judy intrude, the staff meeting at Oscars Department Store soon descends into chaos as long standing inter departmental frictions come to the fore. These tensions are soon forgotten however when news comes of a take over of the store by a multi-national company which will mean the long serving, loyal staff's well established work routine and perks are to be seriously curtailed. The solution to their problems comes in a surprising final twist. |
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| Othello In Hell by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play based on the Shakespeare classic. |
| Synopsis | Trapped in an invisible prison, the spirit of Othello is tormented by his own memories and visions of those he has known in life. He seems doomed to repeat a cycle of regret and blame and rage, even when granted Desdemona’s forgiveness. |
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| The Other Side by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for youth theatre, a story, but with a strong moral core. |
| Synopsis | Ruth is visiting an Art Gallery as part of the school field trip, when she sees a picture of a cabin that looks familiar. She falls into the painting and meets Narg, who takes her back to something she doesn't want to remember. |
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| Our Julie's Big Day by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | It is the morning of Julie's wedding day. Her older female relatives fuss around her as they help her get ready for the big event when Julie drops the bombshell that she is having serious second thoughts. In describing the trials and tribulations of their own marriages Mum, Aunts and Granny strangely make up her mind for her. |
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| Our Last Respects by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a graveyard.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | Two women with what ammounts to not quite a graveside eulogy for their deceased friend. |
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| Our Little Secret by Rollin Jewett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic drama with a single apartment setting. |
| Synopsis | Darlene is surprised by an armed intruder entering her apartment. Tensions build as police arrive in force to the neighbourhood, searching for the miscreant. She soon discovers that the intruder is not quite what he seems and a relationship develops between them. |
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| Out For The Count by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy-farce, with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Walter and Mabel are celebrating their ruby wedding. Unbeknown to the other, both arrange a surprise party. The twists and turns are exacerbated by the arrival of two amateur hypnotists who wreak further chaos. |
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