All By Myself (Comedy)

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Award Winning! - Anglesey Drama Festival . Best Comedy 2015 (UK) Best Senior Play at Chelford Drama Festival (UK) Best Senior Actor in the role of "Ashworth" at Chelford Drama Festival (UK) Adjudicator's award at Wilmslow Guild One Act play Festival. (UK) Protea Stage Productions won Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Newcomer and was runner up for Best Production in the Franklin Players One Act Play Festival 2016 (South Africa). Unmasqued performance won Second Youth Award at SCDA Awards 2019 (UK). The EGA Trophy for Outstanding Production, Best Male Support and Best Presentation by Rhyl Liberty Players at Clwyd Community Theatre Association Festival of One-Act Plays 2019 (UK)

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"Larry the Loner" has been stranded for the past seven years on an island. Destitute, alone and without a friend. However, in all these years he failed to discover the rather overcrowded civilisation just around the corner. If only he had looked a little further! Yet he is soon to discover that due to his annoying new neighbours this island was better when he was isolated.

Cast Size – 5

(1 male, 4 non-gender specific)

Estimated 25 Minutes

Picture - Thespian Anonymous, Finland

All By Themselves (Comedy)

The sequel to All By Myself

Another raft of comedy!

Still marooned on an island after other shipwrecked souls took a raft (his raft!) and left, Larry curses the fact that he's still not alone. And that he let the raft go. But the raft didn't go as far as he thinks, and he's even less alone than he suspects.

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Cast Size – 6

(1 male, 5 non-gender specific)

Estimated 30 Minutes

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Anger Management (Comedy)

Award Winning - The Allerton Players won the People's Award at Richmond One Act Drama Festival, UK and won the cup for Best Technical Achievement and Stage Management. (2019)
A group anger management session takes a turn for the worse when the facilitator suggests the participants re-enact the things that got them sent there in the first place.

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Cast Size – 6

(2 Males, 4 Non Gender Specific)

Estimated 30 minutes

Picture - The Allerton Players, UK

Bride Before A Fall (Farce)

Victor has a problem. He is married, although this isn't the full extent of his problem. Victor also has a long term relationship with Madelyn, the love of his life. The plan was simple. Find someone rich, desperate and dim-witted for Victor to marry to eventually take a large sum of money in a divorce settlement... and who could be richer, more desperate and more dim-witted than Lottie. A loud, irritating and nauseating creature with a high piecing shrill and snort for good measure. However the plan goes slightly wrong when at the last minute Lottie's father convinces her to organise a prenuptial agreement. In the hope that one day Victor and Madelyn will think of another way to get his hands on the cash, he goes ahead. But the marriage isn't all it's cracked up to be. After a few months of wedded hell to literally the most annoying person on earth, Victor needs a way out and Madelyn may have the solution ... murder. If only Lottie was that easy to kill ... 

​Cast Size – 3

(1 male,2 females)

Estimated 35 Minutes

Picture - Space Theatre, Cyprus

A Spy With A View (Comedy)

Award Winning! Carnoustie Theatre Club won Best Play at the Scottish Community Drama Association Angus District Festival of One Act Plays 2018 (UK), The Maidenhead Drama Guild won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival (UK). (2019) and AASCA Best Scene Award 2014 (USA)

David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy?

Cast Size – 3

(2 Males, 1 Female)

Estimated 25 Minutes.

Picture - University of Tasmania, Tasmania

Plan B (Comedy)

Award Winning! - Syston QT Theatre Group won Best Supporting Actress (Belinda) in the Leicestershire One Act Play Festival 2019 (UK)

Richie and Susan's anniversary hasn't gone to plan. While waiting in Accident and Emergency for a doctor after an accident involving spaghetti, they meet a curious lady. Armed only with a saucepan and her thoughts, can this mysterious stranger save their marriage?

Cast Size – 3

(1 male,2 females)

Estimated 20 Minutes

Picture - Ouachita University, USA

The Act Of Living (Comedy & Drama)

Tom and Evelyn were born in the mid 1930’s and we follow their story through childhood to the present day by witnessing snapshots of their lives, or at least the events that surround their special place. We discover Tom and Evelyn at the ages of eight and nine as they meet for the first time, unaware of how significant this first meeting is. Shaped by the ever changing world around them and their own personal challenges, we continue to travel with our two friends throughout their lives. Only glimpsing the moments shared at this ordinary park bench which has become such a special place for them.

Cast Size – 2

(1 male, 1 female)

Estimated 50 Minutes

Picture - Nomadic Players Drama and Theatre Society, UK

Closure (Comedy)

Award Winning! People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018

Luke’s birthday party is a lonely affair – there’s just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they’re involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. However, it's not long before events take hold and there is a whole lot of explaining to do. 

Cast Size – 3

(2 male, 1 female)

Estimated 25 Minutes

Picture - Manchester High School, USA

Daddy's Day (Comedy)

Three men meet in the park where they are watching over the children they’re responsible for. Talk turns to the lives they lead, and they decide to try and meet up for a day without kids. It does not go as expected.

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Cast Size – 3

(3 males)

Estimated 23 Minutes

The Babbling Brookes: Ed and Breakfast (Comedy) 

 

A hilarious set of plays based around the dysfunctional Brookes family told through their eyes of the eldest child, Kerry-Ann.  In this play, Eddie and his Mum are at loggerheads again, and this time neither will apologise. The trouble is, Eddie isn’t even sure what it is he’s not apologising for. Meanwhile, Richie is getting worked up about his annual Yard Sale.

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Cast Size – 7

(3 males, 2 females, 2 Non Gender Specific)

Estimated 25 Minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

The Babbling Brookes: Keep Calm and Kerry-Ann (Comedy) 

 

A hilarious set of plays based around the dysfunctional Brookes family told through their eyes of the eldest child, Kerry-Ann.  In this play, the arrival of Grandad Joseph has the Brookes household in more of a spin than usual and it’s up to Kerry-Ann to find a solution. The question is, would it be better to have her dimwitted brother Eddie or her eccentric rude Grandad working with her?

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Cast Size – 6

(3 male, 3 females)

Estimated 30 Minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

Nickers (Comedy)

A thief has worked out an exquisite plan to steal a diamond from an old man’s house, but when he gets the safe open, he finds he’s not the first on the scene. In fact, he’s barely in the top five…

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Cast Size – 5

(1 male,  4 Non-Gender Specific)

Estimated 20 minutes

 

Picture - Colne Engaine Drama Society, UK

The Babbling Brookes: Rags To Richie (Comedy) 

 

A hilarious set of plays based around the dysfunctional Brookes family told through their eyes of the eldest child, Kerry-Ann.  In this play,  Richie Brookes is a real liability - so much so that his wife won’t leave him alone without a responsible adult to supervise him. Today it’s their long-suffering daughter Kerry-Ann who’s drawn the short straw.

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Cast Size – 8

(3 males, 3 females, 2 Non Gender Specific)

Estimated 30 Minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

Jim Jam (Comedy)

Jim, his wife Mary, and one of their sons, are all stuck in a traffic jam. Jim’s frustrated, his wife is trying to stay serene, and their son is desperate for the loo.

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Cast Size – 3

(2 males, 1 females)

Estimated 22 Minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

Rambles On Radio (Comedy) 

Christopher Rambles and his amateur dramatic group are to perform a new ghostly tale live on radio. What could possibly go wrong? With love affairs, nerves, confusion, a partially sighted sound engineer and chaos (not to mention a frying pan) the odds are against them.... But the show must go on.

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Cast Size – 6

(3 male, 2 females, 1 Non Gender Specific)

Estimated 30 Minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

Charlie To The Checkout Please (Comedy)

Award Winning! - Best Play at Legacy High School Theater 2018)

It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery!

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Cast Size – 6

(All non gender specific)

Estimated 22 minutes

Picture - Notebook Arts, UK

Chances In The Rain (Light Comedy)

Sometimes even the best made plans do not end up the way anyone could have envisaged. Edward, Michelle, Sonia and Peter are hoping their lives are going to change for the better. Today should be their day, but as the rain clouds form it seems disaster has struck. As the four encounter each other in the park, all seems lost. But with misunderstandings and mistaken identities, will Edward, Peter, Sonia and Michelle have a second chance to make this day one they will remember for the right reasons? 

Cast Size – 4

(2 male, 2 females)

Estimated 16 Minutes

Picture - White Oaks Drama, Canada

Just Good Friends (Comedy)

Jane has just broken up with her latest boyfriend, and as usual, Tim is waiting to console her. But maybe this is his chance to step out of the friend zone and admit his feelings to her?

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Cast Size – 3

(2 male, 1 female)

Estimated 16 minutes

 

Picture - Helmdon Bridge Players, UK