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| Sealed With A Loving Kiss by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, single cottage living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Don arrives on Jill's doorstep twenty one years after their relationship ended. Can he explain why he never came back from the army? |
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| The Séance by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a ghost/horror story. Single set. Lots of fun for the special effects crew. Contains swearing and intolerance. |
| Synopsis | Graham and Deborah have invited four old friends to their housewarming party - and the house certainly needs it - the attic was the scene of a brutal murder, and little seems to have changed since that time. Tensions rise as the members of the group begin to feel that the room is haunted. |
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| The Search for Pyrrha by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short fantasy drama with an air of mystery. A stand-alone play, but also the sequel to the award-winning Gone. |
| Synopsis | Ten years after her disappearance, George is still searching for his wife. In a field scheduled to be turned into a nature reserve, he finds a mysterious door. |
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| Searching by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception area, so little more than a coffee table and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | David is going to be on a new television show where he picks from a selection of six women and dates them to determine his match. Trouble is, he seems to be scaring them off before the show even starts... |
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| The Second Amendment by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The police officer could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Single set (a police interrogation room - so just a couple of chairs and possibly a table). |
| Synopsis | A police officer explores a hunter's constitutional right to bear arms. |
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| A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
| Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| The Second Floor by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Chloe is a powerful businesswoman with a sharp tongue - she’s going to set the board straight before tearing through the rest of her appointments. But she ends up stuck in the elevator with her ex-husband, who has some important things to tell her. |
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| The Second Friday Of The Month by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce in two short acts (which puts it on the boundary between a one-act and full-length play). Single (small flat *) set. Contains mild swearing and adult themes.
* I mean it's set in a small flat, not that the set is small and flat. |
| Synopsis | Dan has a somewhat clinical sexual relationship with a psychologist who lives in the flat above him. They meet every second friday of the month, but their routine is broken by the arrival of some of Dan's diverse acquaintances.
A clever, funny play, exploring some rather unconventional relationships. |
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| A Second Hand by Lucy Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is written as a male in his forties but could be played at a different age and, conceivably, could switch gender. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short telephone monologue, delivering dead-pan comedy. No set. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | A salesman tries to buy a second hand car and ends up considering taking a second look at his chosen career. Originally published in 2009, revised in 2017. |
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Second Honeymoon by Alan Barkley
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, set in 1952. |
| Synopsis | Claire is looking for a way out of her marriage, but instead runs into someone who knows all about trying to cope with a demanding life - Marilyn Monroe. They trade lives for an afternoon and learn a little about life from each other. |
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