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Cast: 12 minimum (flexible casting)
Run time: 45 minutes
Adaptated for youth theatre from Charles Dickens short story.
When the world's grumpiest man is visited by three mysterious spirits on Christmas Eve, he must confront the boy he used to be and the man he's become to save himself—and a young boy's life—from a lonely fate.
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: 3M, 6F (with doubling)
Run time: 110 minutes
When Lady Molly Robertson-Bryce, Head of a Suffragette Cell in London, attends a Halloween shoot, more than a brace of pheasants is killed. Blackmail, treason, and unrequited love are uncovered before she can prove that the victim, the Anti-Suffragist Lord Devonport MP, was not disposed of by one of her loyal followers.
Cast: 1M, 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
Following the loss of her closest relatives, Jess re-visits old haunts, and finds her future.
A Witness for the Deceased
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: Minimum 14 (with doubling)
Run time: 50 minutes
Adapted for the stage from Lewis Carroll’s trilogy:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass,
The Hunting of the Snark and Alice’s Adventures Underground
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Cast: 1m, 3f, 2 any (with doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
A headstrong girl and a cursed prince must find the beauty within to save an enchanted kingdom from an eternal winter.
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Cast: 22, gender neutral
( doubling possible)
Run time: 90 minutes
Join Red Riding Hood for fun romp around the Storybook of fairytale characters, perfect for community groups, youth theatre and family audiences.
Cast: 8, gender neutral (with doubling)
Run time: 20 - 50 minutes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier was Andersen’s first original fairy story, and it sets the trend for what was to follow. It contains many of his trademark features, most notably the tragic central character and the doomed love between the soldier and the ballerina.
The production comes to life with simple physical theatre movements, optional dance sequences, puppetry, and mime.
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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: 1M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
Mistreated by her stepfamily and reduced to a scullery maid, a young woman uses a magical transformation to attend a royal ball, where she must capture a prince’s heart before the stroke of midnight reveals her true identity.
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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: 4M, 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a dreamer and his rat-catching cat arrive in a London infested by the evil King Rat, they must embark on a perilous high-seas journey to clear their names and save the city from a rodent plague.
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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: 14 actors (min. with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
A new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll, with a modern opening, leading through the mirror to the classic tale that everyone loves.
With characters and elements from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark and Alice’s Adventures Underground
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.
Cast: 1M, 1F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After trading his family’s last cow for a handful of magic beans, a destitute farm boy climbs a colossal beanstalk into the clouds to steal a giant’s treasures and save his mother from starvation.
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Cast: Minimum 16 (with doubling)
Run time: 75minutes
When the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham threatens the enchanted lands, a chaotic alliance of storybook legends - together with Jack and SuperGran - must trade their individual fables for a shared mission to find the gold at the end of the beanstalk.
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: 2M, 5F (with doubling)
Run time: 80 minutes
June 1913. When Lady Molly, a staunch supporter of the Suffragette movement, and her companion secretary Eva attend Ladies Day at the races, they cannot help but notice Lady Smythe wearing the most enormous Parisian Hat. The very same day that Emily Davidson Wilding lost her life for the cause.
A week later, Inspector Higgins brings news of Lord Smythe’s death by poisoning in a Bond Street tea rooms, seemingly by a lady wearing that very same hat.
Cast: 2M, 4F, 1 Any
Run time: 80 minutes
London, 1910. Set in a time of political turmoil for women before the Great War. The height of the women’s suffrage movement in the Edwardian era. This fast paced, suspenseful mystery is loosely inspired by the Lady Molly of Scotland Yard mysteries, penned by Baroness Orczy.
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: 3M, 2F, 4 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
When a penniless miller’s son inherits nothing but a talking cat, the crafty feline dons a pair of magical boots and embarks on a swashbuckling quest to outwit an evil ogre, trick a King, and win a Princess’s heart.
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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: 2F, 7 any
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 20 minutes
After escaping an assassination attempt by her jealous stepmother, a displaced princess must team up with a cynical, solitary pixie to reclaim her kingdom and prove that true strength comes in small packages.
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Cast: 2M, 3F (with doubling)
Run time: 25 minutes
A Live Radio Play
Following a deliberate and violent car crash into a brick wall, a severely injured man - referred to by various loved ones as JJ, John, Johnny, and Jonathan Emery - lies comatose in a hospital Intensive Care Unit. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he delivers a cynical interior monologue about the irony of pyjamas marking life's biggest milestones.
Why is he there?
Cast: 3m, 5f (when doubled)
Run time: 120 minutes
In the 1870s agricultural depression, a naive farm girl sent to claim a noble lineage is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy heir, forcing her into a desperate struggle against societal hypocrisy and a tragic fate she cannot outrun.
Cast: 20 gender neutral (minimum with doubling)
Run time: 100 minutes
When a quiet Mole leaves his spring cleaning for a life of adventure on the riverbank, he joins forces with a charming Water Rat, a wise Badger, and an eccentric Toad to reclaim Toad’s ancestral home from the wicked, invading animals of the Wild Wood.
Cast: 2M, 2 any
Run time: 10 minutes
Ebony and Ivory vie to create the best musical alternative to harps beyond the pearly gates.
Cast: 6M, 4F, 2 boys, 1 girl
(with opportunities for doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
After being sent to a secluded Yorkshire estate, a sour young orphan discovers a hidden, neglected garden that becomes the key to healing her lonely cousin and her own cold heart.
Cast: Flexible casting, gender neutral
Run time: 25 minutes
A youth theatre play in one or two acts, adapted from the tales of Beatrix Potter
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Cast: 4m, 3f (with doubling)
Run time: 25 minutes
A play based on a modern adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which may be recorded, produced for the radio, or performed live in front of an audience.
Available royalty free. Please ask for details.