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| The Story of an Hour by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Louise Mallard's husband Brently has been killed in a train accident and her sister Josephine and husband's friend Barton try to break the news to her in a way that won't disturb her heart condition. They are unaware of how trapped she feels by the marriage and the freedom that her husband's death gives. However Barton has been given the wrong information by the police and Brently arrives just as Louise is planning her long, free life. |
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| The Story Of Eklavya by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Optional more musicians and a second narrator |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | Eklavya has skill with a bow and wants to be the best archer in history, but the best guru only teaches the nobility and Eklavya is a peasant. He makes his own guru and waits for his chance to prove himself.
A tale from the Mahabharata. |
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| The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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| The Storyteller by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One 'character' is the voice of a station announcer. The other characters take on multiple roles. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Stage adaptation of one of Saki's subversive stories. Single set - largely a few benches. |
| Synopsis | On a railway journey, three children are being disruptive. Their aunt tries to settle them with a moralistic story, but this fails to do the trick, whereas a fellow traveller captivates them with a story in which a good girl is by virtue of being good, caught and devoured by a wolf.
(In this adaptation, the writer takes an even more subversive interpretation of 'devoured', though a milder ending is also offered!) |
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| A Straight Play by Natalia Knowlton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single (simple) set. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In Colorado, 2003, newly married Kate joins a support group for married women, and finds it less than supportive. |
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| Straight to the Top by Martin Sims |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The female role is voice only, |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy/drama in a single set which could be minimal. (The author makes staging suggestions in the Producer's Copy of the script.) |
| Synopsis | Joseph is on his way to the top of the building to end his unlucky life. Fortunately, Michael takes the same elevator, slowing the journey in time for Joseph to achieve a different perspective on life. |
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| Strange New Worlds by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props, Science Fiction (TV) parody [Okay, early Star Trek!] |
| Synopsis | Three members of the Galaxy Patrol, Security Branch, are on the surface of an alien planet. Bearing in mind they're all wearing red jerseys, how many will get off the planet alive? |
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| A Stranger's Guide to Panto by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The numbers in the cast depend on how you deal with the dragon (two people, one person or one doubling with the villain.) Most of the roles - except the Heroine and, because this is panto, the Hero, are written male. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short (sketch-length) narrated British pantomime. Simple to stage (single set) give or take the dragon. |
| Synopsis | A quick review of the major points of that most peculiarly British of shows, the Pantomime. A show that explains comedy through comedy. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Strangers When We Meet by Scott Carpenter |
| 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 | A ten minute play. |
| Synopsis | Malcolm and Eira are both in their sixties, and looking for love. As the two make awkward small talk, childhoods are revisited and memories are stirred. Perhaps they are not strangers at all |
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| Street Talk by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A case of shopping and... gossiping. |
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