Contemporary Drama
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Cast: 2M, 5F
Run time: 100 minutes
Call centre operators Linda, Hannah, Sarah and Carole struggle to make ends meet, seemingly without any chance of ever living their best lives. Phones ring. Cakes are sold. Wages earned - but it’s never enough.
With odds of winning the lottery at one in forty-five million, will autistic Freya’s entry into their syndicate make a difference?
Cast: 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
When a green-fingered vicar and his wife begin digging up the vicarage lawn for "unusual" flower beds, the gossiping village of Little Gittings starts to rot from the inside out. Following a series of suspicious deaths and an explosion of local bees, a woman accused of a scandalous affair with the vicar must uncover the truth behind the couple’s botanical obsession before she becomes the next thing buried in the garden.
Cast: 2M, 2F, 2 any
Run time: 50 minutes
Three people regularly visit Jon Ellis, a badly injured man in a Bristol hospital, each believing they are the only person who truly knows and loves him. Barbara is his devoted wife, Steven his long-term partner, and Ellie his young, pregnant fiancée.
Unaware of one another, they separately share memories, hopes and intimate details with the unconscious patient.
Cast: 1M, 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
Following the loss of her closest relatives, Jess re-visits old haunts, and finds her future.
Cast: 3M, 4F (with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
A tense courtroom thriller, based on a contemporary re-imagining of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
When Henry Dashwood is found in his car at the bottom of a river, was it suicide - or murder?
Cast: 4F
Run time: 10 minutes
A support group, set up for individuals with a chocolate addiction, meets weekly under the guise of being a book club. A 10 minute version of The Chocoholics Book Club.
Cast: 1M, 4F
Run time: 45 minutes
A support group, set up for individuals with a chocolate addiction, meets weekly under the guise of being a book club.
But this is no ordinary addiction support group; the leader positively encourages members to fully embrace their passion for chocolate. There is something very special about the products that Chocolatier Alex provides that magically seem to help them to get through the day.
Cast: 2m, 4f
Run time: 100 minutes
December 2012. Estate agency partner Brian holds an annual office festive party, masking a dark secret - his wife has sold her soul to an ambitious surveyor to cover up her systematic embezzlement. But disaster strikes leaving Brian frozen in time while the world moves on, his loyal secretary and a sharp-witted negotiator work together to save the agency.
Cast: 3m, 4f
Run time: 120 minutes
Struggling with grief and financial pressures of a family business, Kat and historical researcher Harry peel back the layers of a half-century-old secret, revealing how a single moment of cowardice during the London Blitz still ripples through lives today.
Cast: 5f
Run time: 45 minutes
When Home and Her's Agony Aunt Tilly's “Sex for the Over 60s” workshop attracts only four eccentric women with wildly conflicting agendas, five very different seniors must navigate a comedy of errors to find the intimacy - and satisfaction - they never saw coming.
Cast: 3F
Run time: 10 minutes
When you are waiting at the entrance to the afterlife, the jury will decide your destiny!
Cast: Minimum 12 (with doubling)
Run time: 120 minutes
Fairy number forty is an aspiring apprentice fairy, who scouts the Fantasy Times for her big break, leading to a flexible, modular adventure. To earn her wings, a determined apprentice fairy must crash six "pocket" pantomimes, weaving together a series of classic tales to prove that every story - no matter how small - needs a little bit of magic.
Cast: 2m, 4f, 1 any
Run time: 110 minutes
When, Robert, a middle-aged man’s chaotic life and failing relationships push him to breaking point, the return of a childhood friend forces him to finally choose between his complicated reality and a life-altering choice.
Cast: 1M, 2F (with doubling)
Run time: 35-40 minutes
The residents of Little Gittings are excited to welcome a new vicar and his wife to their small English village in the country.
But the village is rife with gossip and rumour.
An extended one-act version of a 10 minute play, A New Garden.
Cast: 1m, 4f (min. with doubling)
Run time: 110 minutes
When a life-changing injury leaves a "trench scribe" Will hospitalised in France, he enlists the help of Nina, a young Red Cross nurse to continue the deception of writing to the families of his dead friends as if they were still alive, ensuring their final promises are kept at any cost.
Cast: 5F, 1M or F
Run time: 50 minutes
Stranded on the platform of a foggy railway station waiting room with an unhelpful mobile signal, Rosie grows increasingly anxious waiting for her partner, Charlie. She is unaware that she is surrounded by the ghosts of grieving women from different eras who are all trapped in an eternal limbo of waiting for their own lost loves.
Lost Connections explores how sudden tragedy traps individuals in a state of emotional limbo.
Cast: 2f
Run time: 10 minutes
Coming to terms with her mother's grief, Skye tries to re-connect at a music festival, which turns out to be anything but.
Cast: 1M, 3F
Run time: 10 minutes
Was it suicide or murder? Following the sudden death of their father, two sisters with opposite temperaments - one practical and reserved, the other passionate and impulsive - are thrust into poverty by their older, estranged brother.
Cast: 5M, 4F, 9 any
Run time: 45 minutes
The future. To solve the global energy crisis, HAL-9000 is retrieved from Jupiter after being left to fend for himself more than one hundred years previously. After harvesting his data, nobody could decide what to do with the barely responsive super computer.
A freak electrical storm brings him to life, and HAL merges with a human, going on to stand in the local Mayoral elections. He goes on to set up a mandatory virtual reality app to save costs on education, but secretly harvests the children’s cognitive energy to power the town’s, and his, own infrastructure.
Parents are at their wits end as children become unresponsive. They call in the former head teacher and scientist, Mrs Pi Piper, to bring back their children’s innocence.
Cast: 1M, 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
After a life changing accident, Brian continues to go to work day after day, even participating in the Christmas party - but nobody can bear to tell him that his wife is dead.
Cast: 2m, 3f (with doubling)
Run time: 10 minutes
Most people take grapes to hospital; others take pyjamas
Cast: 1F, 2 any
Run time: 10 minutes
Pigeons sit on a lamppost lamenting the loss of habitat in the local park, and vying for the crumbs that humanity drops.
Cast: 2f
Run time: 45 minutes
After losing her father, Skye attempts to bridge the gap with her distant, list-making mother by trading spreadsheets for sleeping bags on a star-gazing trip that might be their last chance at a bond.
Cast: 2M, 2 any
Run time: 10 minutes
Ebony and Ivory vie to create the best musical alternative to harps beyond the pearly gates.