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Big Top Barry by Brent Alles
Published: 19 February 2025
Production by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago, IL, Playground Festival 2024, Audience Choice Award Winner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple story with a strong moral message and plenty of animal-themed fun. American English. |
| Synopsis | The Linguini Brothers Circus's most famous act is Lionel the lion whose roar thrills and chills crowds wherever he goes. Lionel's young son, Barry, can't roar like his dad and needs to find what he can do to be a star on his own. |
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Endings by Bob Hartwell
Published: 23 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An engaging drama with nuanced characters and a satisfying payoff. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | Elderly widower Peter Cresswell is perfectly happy with his house and garden, but his son and daughter-in-law, in need of money to bail out their troubled business, are pushing for him to sell it. His daughter Catherine and neighbour Susan are more supportive, but Catherine’s marriage is on the rocks and Susan has untold secrets. |
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The Game of Murder by Deborah Hugill
Published: 23 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A finely crafted piece offering a new twist on the murder mystery. Single set, divided into three working areas - two permanent, furnished locations and a flexible area for other scenes. |
| Synopsis | DCI Waddington and his team have an unconventional approach to solving crime, and new arrival DC Knight will really have to learn to play the game their way if they are going to send the killer directly to jail without passing Go. |
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Dominico Hall by David Winfield
Published: 21 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A good drama with some thoughtful consideration of homelessness. Easy to stage on a single set (an abandoned chapel, which can be indicated by very little furniture). |
| Synopsis | Two young vagrants with a slightly older mentor find themselves in an abandoned seminary building. As they discover more about the place and each other, their place of refuge is interrupted by the arrival of two security guards. |
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Coppers by Kate Stafford
Published: 20 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four onstage characters and an offstage (male) voice. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act tale of brutal deceit in the world of politics, building to a satisfying twist. Two sets (office and pub) indicated by furniture. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | In 1984, government minister Christabel and police chief Neil grapple with the embarrassment of having rings run around them by a criminal gang, while journalist Suzy is sniffing out a scandal and attempting to bribe Christabel’s old flame. |
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Gold! by Kate Stafford
Published: 20 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing). |
| Synopsis | Julie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them. |
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Surplus Women by Stuart Smithers
Published: 17 January 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play for two women, which the author describes as a shared monologue - interleaving the thoughts of one woman at two different times of her life, the aftermath of WW1 and the start of WW2. |
| Synopsis | In 1919, Mahala, recently widowed in the First World War, looks ahead to an uncertain future. In 1940, now going by the name May, she reflects on her experiences ath the start of the Second. |
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