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To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
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To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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To Kill a Blackmailer by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 male and 3 female roles, plus the voice of a newsreader, which can be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 109 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length murder mystery play on a single drawing room set. |
Synopsis | A ruthless blackmailer has instructed four potential victims to be at his home at a certain time, to 'discuss a business matter'. A short time after they have all arrived, the blackmailer's dead body is found in the study. The police are informed, and a murder investigation ensues. But all is not what it seems. |
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To Know When My Time Will Come by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with elements of murder mystery. (The comedy becomes darker as the murder mystery elements are introduced, but it retains its sense of humour and never becomes overly grim.) Single set. |
Synopsis | Life trundles along at the Sunset Retirement Home - except when it comes to a sudden end. The matron offers residents an unusual bet: she predicts their date of death, and if she's right, she inherits all their wealth. Suspicious newcomer Emily decides to find out what's really going on. |
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To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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To Shut The Mouth Of Lions by Dave Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play, containing strong adult language. |
Synopsis | At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause. |
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A to Z The Universe In Me by Michal Y Noah |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Variable number of characters may double at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming piece for young children, with no set requirements. Based on the author's best-selling award-winning children's book of the same name. |
Synopsis | A piece to encourage children to vocalise positive attributes - using the whole alphabet! |
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The Toad Society by John Waterhouse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage actors (two of whom each play two roles in Act 2) and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play in two acts (each with its own set). |
Synopsis | The Harpington Toad Fanciers meet to share their fascination with amphibians, only to discover that they have more interests in common than just the common toad. This leads on to the formation of TARTS and a rather eventful camping expidition... Act one is available as a stand-alone one-act play, The Harpington Toad Fanciers' Social |
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Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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A Toll Of Bells by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
Synopsis | With action jumping between time zones and crossing three generations, the play depicts people who are faced with huge events that are beyond their control. They must, however, continue the quest for survival in their more mundane lives. The three generations depicted in the play react in different ways to accomplish that goal. |
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