Historical Drama
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Cast: 12 minimum (flexible casting)
Run time: 45 minutes
Adaptated 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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