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| Word Up by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Age difference essential. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy, with a split (living room and office) set. |
| Synopsis | Pensioner Ruby is having trouble with her computer and calls a computer helpline. The problem is eventually discovered, but will Ruby like the solution? |
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| A Word with my Client by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Although the sketch is written with four male roles, with just minor adjustments Bland and/or Bentazza could easily be played as female. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch set in a police interview room. |
| Synopsis | Detective Sergeant Hatchett has been assaulted whilst thwarting an attempted burglary and is about to interview the suspect along with his superior. The burglar has enlisted the help of a particularly slippery solicitor. Will he be able to convince the police of his highly dubious client's innocence? |
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| Wordsworth's Harem by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act historical, emotional drama in a single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | In 1801, William Wordsworth is in love with his sister Dorothy. To hide their forbidden relationship, the siblings plan a marriage for William. |
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| Work Experience by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A gentle, enjoyable comedy. Easy to stage (in a single living room set) with a majority female cast. |
| Synopsis | Housewife Melissa is very fond of her daily routine, so when her husband Gerald takes early retirement, she’s increasingly irritated by his disruptions to it. With the help of her friends, she devises a solution which brings her own life-changing experience. |
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Work in Progress by Damian Trasler
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2000, and Winner of the Adjudicator's Award, Anglesey Drama Festival 2005. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set, argument amongst Film Noir characters and their writer! |
| Synopsis | An author struggles to complete a book, contending with his publishing deadline and a group of characters determined to assert their identity. |
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| Working for the Great Novelist by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A reporter discovers uncomfortable truths about how a great novelist works. |
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| Working It Out by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Set in a pub beer garden, so needs little more than an outdoor table, chairs and a tray of drinks. Contains very mild swearing (and a lot of other things too). |
| Synopsis | A witty look at the lives and loves of twin sisters Andrea and Jane. They work out their weight problems at the gym, much to the embarrassment of Jane's daughter Emma who works there, and then work out their relationship problems at the pub with a post gym drink or two. Joined by husband Tommy, who Jane is convinced is having an affair, recently divorced younger sister Nikki with her supportive friend Cally and just jilted Emma, the family work out and work through their individual difficulties together. |
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| Working Man by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principals (including one child) plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script is accompanied by piano and vocal scores for one instrumental and six songs. |
| Style | Full-length musical play inspired by the paintings of Alexander Millar, set on Tyneside in the heyday of the shipyards. |
| Synopsis | Johnson's shipyard is under new management, but the new boss is unpopular - he's stopped the beer allowance, for one thing. The men strike, but are sacked. They need to find a better way to get him to change his mind. What about going back to workwithout pay? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks for the opening instrumental and six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Opening instrumental and vocal demo tracks for the six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Ten high resolution images of paintings from the Working Man collection by Alexander Millar for projection during performances of Working Man by Peter Nuttall
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| The World According to Oscar by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty comedy, which moves along quickly with a few surprising twists. Single set - an up-market apartment. |
| Synopsis | Burglar Dougan breaks into an upmarket apartment, expecting it to be empty, but Bernard is at home with his mistress Tasha, having forgotten about his wife's birthday party. Dougan offers to help save Bernard's marriage. |
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| The World Turned Upside Down by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Optional chorus of would-be citizens storming the Bastille! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for the two songs (one traditional, the other the Marseillaise) suggested in the script is provided with the Producer's Copy. |
| Style | One-act historical drama for kids. |
| Synopsis | A short dramatisation of the French Revolution from the point of view of the peasants (who join in the overthrow of King Louis but rapidly become disillusioned). |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Midi files of songs from the show
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