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ALL AT SEA. A PLAY IN ONE ACT Running time 5 minutes. All male cast of 2 late middle-aged men. 1 voice, male. Two friends share a love of sailing and tea. It isn't plain sailing, much to their dismay and that of the coastguard.
ANY OTHER DAY. A PLAY IN ONE ACT. Running time 50 minutes. CAST: 1M, 3F (2f with doubling) Male to appear 30-ish, Females late 20s-mid 40s.
This is an 'imagining' of what might have happened in the days following the death of Alan Turing on 7th June 1954, at his home, HOLLY MEADE, in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Next year, June, will be 70 years since the death of Alan Turing.
BEST FRIENDS. A PLAY IN ONE ACT.
COMEDY. Running time 30 minutes. All female cast. Freda and Jessie have been friends since childhood. They're waiting for Kirsty to arrive from the local paper to interview them. Some home truths are about to be brought to the fore.
BROKE BRITAIN. A PLAY IN ONE ACT.
DYSTOPIAN DRAMA Running Time 10 minutes. All female cast, Jo, early thirties, Marie, late thirties, Nurse, late fifties/early sixties. Britain is on the breadline. There isn't anything left in the kitty for social or welfare care. Cutting treatment to the over seventy-fives was discussed, but thought too devisive. Younger women were considered easier meat. Now all families must have no more than 1 child.
GRESFORD. DRAMA Running Time 60 minutes
This play is a dramatisation of the Gresford pit disaster. One of the worst mining tragedies to have happened in this country. More details to follow.
HOW ARE YOU UNCLE SAM?
COMEDY/DRAMA Running time 15 minutes. A play set in Anglesey, Wales, and in Romiley England. Cast: Ivy; great aunt to Sarah, Megan; Ivy’s neighbour, Sarah; Ivy’s niece, living in England. Elizabeth, ‘Lizzie’: Sarah’s daughter, age 7, Sylvia; Lizzie’s friend, age 7, Uncle Sam; Ivy’s husband and uncle to Sarah.
It is 1930. Action takes place in the sitting room of the two houses. In Anglesey, Ivy and Megan are talking while having afternoon tea.
In Romiley, two seven year old girls, Lizzie and Sylvia are discussing the arrival of Uncle Sam’s bicycle. It is a penny farthing.
Ivy and Megan are both ladies in their late sixties/ early seventies. Both extremely
forthright although Megan knows her place when talking to Ivy. Uncle Sam is a wiry, bearded seventy year old, fond of speaking Welsh and fond of riding his penny farthing.
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY! A PLAY IN 2 ACTS.
COMEDY Running time 30 minutes. CAST: 1M,1F,age mid thirties. Tim and Julie have been happily married for eight years. There's a double dip recession, Julie becomes pregnant, Tim loses his job, but this is great, he knows things can only get better.
JADE
Based on the English Folktale, ‘Tattercoats’
A Play in one act. Running Time 15 minutes. CAST: 2m, 2F.
MR TATE male, Jade’s grandfather, mid/late 70s,
MR LORD male, a friend of Mr Tate and the grandfather of Dan, mid/late 70s,
MRS WILKINS female, late 60s, Mr Tate’s daily help,
JADE female, 18, Mr Tate’s granddaughter
Set, present day, any northern seaside town.
Mr Tate lives in an old house overlooking the sea. His expression is pained and joyless. He has been grieving for the last eighteen years for his daughter who died in childbirth.
Today his granddaughter is eighteen but Mr Tate has never once looked at her face. He cannot bear to be reminded of his tragic loss. He neither gives her money for clothes nor feeds her. That she is there at all is too much for him. If she had died with her mother, he thinks, then it would have been for the best.
JOIN US FOR DINNER. A PLAY IN 3 ACTS.
DRAMA Running time 70 minutes. CAST: 3M, 3F, (2M, 2F age 50s, 1M, 1F, age40s) Carol and Peter are giving a dinner party. They invite four of their friends. A single friend makes up the numbers, becomes a stand-in for Mike, Eva's boyfriend who's away on business. Sue suspects Peter of ... something, ... is everything really all right between Peter and Carol?
JOY! Running time 30 minutes. A PLAY IN 1 ACT.
COMEDY
CAST: 1M, 2F. 1M, mid 40s, 1F, late 60s, 1F, early 30s.
Gordon calls in to visit his mum, Joy. He tells her that Sylvia's outside, he'd
like them to meet, and by the way, today's their wedding day!
JUICED . Running time 1hour 40 minutes. A PLAY IN 2 ACTS.
COMEDY CAST: 3M, 2F, (1M, age late 30s, 1F, age late 30s, 1M, age late 20s, 1M, age 40ish, 1F, age early 20s) At the office of Cartwheel foods there's panic. Geoff, Mercy and Ryan are waiting for area manager Mr Maddocks to visit. Geoff's there, Ryan's late and Mercy is drunk; what else can possibly go wrong? There's a mix up with luggage, a visit from Cerise who works for a rival, a hospital emergency and finally Geoff manages to upset the cleaner.