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A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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Devil in the Detail by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, set in the less favourable regions of the afterlife. |
Synopsis | Harry is newly arrived in Hell and he's not happy about it, but Claude De Ville isn't open to appeals. Harry is given an assignment to bring a soul back to Hell in exchange for eternity away from the Sulphur Mines. But the man in question has help on his side... |
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Fleas Can Bite by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dry comedy, on the boundary between a long one-act play, and a short full-length one. (It's in two acts.) |
Synopsis | A saga of unrequited love, insanity and blackmail, populated by a strange collection of patients, professionals and friends. |
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Fone Home by Nicholas Conti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults, some of whom are deceased (and therefore ageless!) |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play, single set (split between two apartments) |
Synopsis | Though your family are dead and gone, they now live in the twilight zone... Nick and Jen's marriage is threatened by his addiction to work and her attraction to her boss. When Nick accidentally dials his old home number, he is astonished to hear his mother (dead for twenty years) answer the phone. She, Nick's Dad and Nick's Uncle Louie are all on the line from Heaven with advice to help Nick through the hard times. But will it be enough to save the marriage? |
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A Gladiator In The House by John Waterhouse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy (reminiscent of a Restoration Comedy) with various settings in Ancient Rome designed to be created simply (even in the round). |
Synopsis | Ancient Rome is brought to life as the love affair between escaped gladiator, Marcus, and Livia, daughter of high ranking citizen Gallus, develops despite the efforts of gladiator owner Proculus and the lecherous banker Carus. |
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God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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