One Act
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Cast: Minimum 12 (with doubling)
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: Minimum 14 (with doubling)
Run time: 50 minutes
Adapted for the stage from Lewis Carroll’s trilogy, this one act version of Alice in Wonderland combines Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark and Alice’s Adventures Underground
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: 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.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.