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| Securing the Sponsor by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Leonard and the director have masculine names, any of the characters could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | For many shows, securing a sponsor to help finance the production is a crucial task. It doesn't always go as well as this... |
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Seeing Red by Karen Ankers
Production by Dingwall Players won Best Play, SCDA One Act Festival (Moray Firth District) 2019 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with humorous undertones, with a single, park bench setting. |
| Synopsis | With a strong touch of satire, we find Nellie brazenly committing the supposed heinous offence of knitting. Young Belinda is horrified as she discovers Nellie openly and defiantly knitting in such a public place... but is liberated as Nellie's past experiences come to light. |
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| Seeking Sleeping Beauty by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play, subverting Sleeping Beauty and various other fairytales. |
| Synopsis | Prince Florimund and Nomdeplume are lost in the forest when they meet Lilac the Fairy and learn of the Princess sleeping an enchanted sleep. On their way to rescue her they meet Red Riding Hood, a wicked witch, a vampire and Rapunzel, and some other folks too. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Self Centre by Jackie Carreira |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act prose monologue. |
| Synopsis | As she deals with a series of customers, Vivi, a receptionist at a new age health centre, reflects on the circumstances that brought her here and the loss of her brother. |
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| Self Defence by Laura Belcher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with various settings - a split stage could be used. |
| Synopsis | A victim of domestic abuse, Hannah decides to join a self-defence class - as much as for a social outlet as for a means of defending herself. With the support of her fellow class mates, whose light touch relieves the tense atmosphere she is living in, Hannah is empowered to assert herself. |
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| Selfie Beauty and the Beast by Warren McWilliams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act pantomime designed to be performed in individual video recordings to be stitched together to form a show! |
| Synopsis | Prince is transformed into a mean beast (for being mean) and has to redeem himself by making Beauty fall in love with him. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Senior Speed Date by Jeff Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is voice-only and can be voiced live or pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (pub room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Recently separated from her husband, Joan has been persuaded by her daughter to attend a speed dating evening. She is confronted by a procession of highly unsuitable candidates. |
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| Sent Back Standing by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. An uneven distrubution of roles, with the play dominated with the director (though, unusually in these circumstances, the director is on stage). |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set (pretty much a bare stage). |
| Synopsis | A director struggles to keep her sanity through the stresses of a Tech rehearsal in a venue that's being rebuilt around the company. She's also haunted by her husband's affair, and trying to work through her private grief in a very public place. |
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| A Sequence of Events by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two (male) characters are voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 3 tracks, to be played at the closing of scenes, are suggested in the producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 50-minute drama, structured into two acts with set redecoration required between them. |
| Synopsis | The loss of her father when she was just sixteen really affected Anne, but the unplanned pregnancy that followed was even more of a blow. Putting the child up for adoption, she tried to forget it all, but thirty years later she receives a letter. |
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| Sergeant Major Hewitt by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Doctor and porter are written male, but could be played female. Thomas is a teenager, the rest of the characters are adults. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single (hospital room) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A World War One Veteran has to share his hospital room with a boy whose father died in World War 2. Though they are only together a short while, they have a great impact on each other's lives. |
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