One Act Plays

'Tis Folly To Be Wise When burglar, Marty Dobson enters the property of Rebecca and Steve Porter, he finds Steve sitting on the sofa pointing a pistol at him. Marty's nightmare begins when Steve make him an offer he can't ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): F1 M3 One-Act. Details

A Bad Review Openly gay and flamboyant, Cooper Hopkins, a respected theatre critic is at home one evening preparing to leave for New York to take up an Arts critic post. With him is ex-partner, Nick Bowen, a Resta ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 3): 3M One-Act. Details

A Last Supper After the dubious arrest of Linwood Morgan, for possession of a controlled substance by Detective Inspector Lorna Farmer, she is confident her action was correct, despite protestations from DC Debbie ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 3F 1M One-Act. Details

A Nation Deflated After a night out celebrating his father's fiftieth birthday, Jason Harris awakes early to find father Mike, in a daze in his apartment. Two females are asleep in their respective bedrooms, and the fe ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 3F 3M One-Act. Details

A New Lease of Wife Billy Chapman, the resident Casanova, at the Greenfields Nursing Home, suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of female attention, as do other male residents, shortly after new Doctor, Andy Pric ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): F4 M4 One-Act. Details

A Quiet Night in with Friends Peter Andrews is a successful businessman. Both he and his wife, Claire are members of an exclusive role-playing club who enjoy "Murder Mystery" evenings. This particular autumn evening it's their ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 9): F4 M5 Full-Length. Details

A Relative Mistake After a year of married life and the credit crunch begins to bite, Kelly and Liam's relationship implodes. When both are made redundant, she cannot accept their lifestyle must change and regrets getti ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2M One-Act. Details

A Second Chance "The Man" enters a room containing a table and ten chairs. The room is a "moment in time." As he introduces himself it is evident he is not from this planet. He has been sent by the "Omnipresent" to o ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): F4 M15 One-Act. Details

A Secret Truth It is 1991 and Harry Baldwin, who is in his seventies, is living out his life in an aged persons unit and is slowly drifting into his own private world, where misery and depression go hand in hand. He ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): F2 M2 One-Act. Details

A Very Odd Couple Sex workers Gary and Sarah, share a flat and ply their trade on a roster basis. Early one morning Gary returns to find Sarah still entertaining out of agreed working hours. Awaiting the transaction to ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 1F 3M One-Act. Details

Airs and Braces Rough, ready and wealthy retired Northern businessman, Albert Prescott, had an unfortunate accident on the Golf course, leaving his libido somewhat deflated. His titled wife Lady Fiona, is rightly fru ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2 M One-Act. Details

Amateur Dramatics When Exotic dancer, Karen Potter, auditions for the part in the Paragonian Players production of, "The Lady Laid Bare," she is excited to be given the female lead. For obvious reasons, Bobby Jones, ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 2F 3M One-Act. Details

An Acute Sense Of Being As their marriage is teetering on the edge of the abyss, Marcia and Neil are invited to a meet and greet evening with new neighbours, Peter and Friday. Marcia is shocked to find their Green, Eco-frie ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 2F 3M One-Act. Details

An Innocent Guilt Donna is short of money and asks her sister, Zoe to help with a scam of preying on older men in the local park by pretending to fall in front of them, then screaming sexual assault and obtaining money ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): F4 M2 One-Act. Details

An Inspector Falls In an attempt to alleviate overstretched Police resources, Detective Inspector Chris Chapman and Detective Sergeant Maria Lawson attend the sudden death of Peter Fisher, a man living alone. It appears ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2 F, 2 M One-Act. Details

Bad Timing Media manipulator and publicist, Chas Pickett is always on the look-out for a story to top his last expose`. After a quiet weekend, stories look thin on the ground, as Monday heralds the start of Gen ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 2F 3M One-Act. Details

Beans on Toast Martin and Leanne Quinn are down on their luck after a failed business venture, are now bankrupt and live off baked beans.Martin comes up with the idea to start an Escort Agency to be run by Leanne, A ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 3F 1M One-Act. Details

Birth Day When four expectant mothers agree to attend a group therapy initiative, chaired by Doctor Cathy Morton, their lives are put under the microscope. Julie is a rape victim, Sharon, is having her last chi ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 6F Full-Length. Details

Broken Biscuits The Armstrong household is becoming a lunatic asylum. Bill spends most of his time in front of the television, while his wife, Mary fantasises over Brad Pitt. Mary's two brothers lodge with them as t ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 9): F5 M4 One-Act. Details

Bursting Soap Bubbles After twenty-five years in the TV soap. "Harry's World," actor Owen Sharp is distraught and on the verge of a mental breakdown. He is unable to come to terms with his character being killed off along ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 3F 2M One-Act. Details

Cavaliere Servente Olympic Gold medallist, Christian Soames, now in his early forties and living in Cyprus, is being blackmailed into having sex with family friend, Sylvia Wright. Two years ago Sylvia found Christian ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): F4 M2 Full-Length. Details

Credit Crunch With the world's money markets in turmoil, Trevor and Julie Brown take drastic action after been made scapegoats of the banking industry. Grinding their highflying lifestyle to a standstill is the ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 3F 3M One-Act. Details

Dead Clothes Rachel Miller is awoken, one Saturday morning from under the duvet of a double airbed, to the dulcet tones of British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, declaring war on Germany. Why is she there? ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 2): 1 Female 1 Male One-Act. Details

Die And Let Live When Mark Draper has a headstone delivered to his flat with his name on it, he treats it as a practical joke. When the undertaker rings for a convienient time to pick up his body he does not see the ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): F3 M3 One-Act. Details

Family and Friends Colin Spears is slowly picking up the pieces after divorcing his wife after 20 years of marriage. Now a one-parent family, the Spears household is slowly coming to terms with life without a matriach. ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): F2 M2 One-Act. Details

Friday Best Jamie Bartels arrives home from America to celebrate his 21st birthday. He finds his father, Jack smartly dressed. He tells Jamie he is dead and that time has slipped back one week.. A series of incid ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): F3 M3 One-Act. Details

Funeral Arrangements As eccentric and dysfunctional families go, the Benson brood take the biscuit. Gathering for the funeral of their matriach, Dot Benson, they receive a telephone call from the funeral directors telling ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 8): 5F 3M Full-Length. Details

Hot Property Freddie Watson, a successful estate agent is sent to a property awaiing the arrival of a prospective buyer, who has not been told that overlooking the house is a Naturist resort. A series of situat ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 9): 4M 5F One-Act. Details

Incidental Emotions and Other Distractions Andy Wilson's early retirement should have marked a happy chapter in his marriage. Wife Carol, fifteen years his junior, has career ambitions. Married life is slowly fading with Andy's needs suffering ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2 F 2 M One-Act. Details

Inside Out The next captain of the England football team is a transsexual. Life in the top flight of English Premiership football is fraught with danger both on and off the field, as the press devours morsels of ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 1F 4M One-Act. Details

Last Performing Rites The Phoenix Descending Theatre Company is in terminal meltdown, as productions are rehearsed back to back with extra rehearsals in between. Artistic Director, Peter Quince, wields an iron fist as his ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): 2 Females 5 Males One-Act. Details

Liam's Last Birthday As family and friends gather to celebrate Liam's thirty-ninth birthday, his parents, Wendy and Dennis, argue about their first years of married life. When heavily pregnant Jenny arrives, not feelin ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 3F 3M One-Act. Details

Lord Capulet was a Geordie Bobby Kemp wakes up one evening in his living room to find Lord Capulet from "Romeo and Juliet" reading the prologue to the play. Bobby thinks he's dreaming and ignores him in the hope he'll wake up. ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): F2 M5 One-Act. Details

Model Behaviour Louise Dent is a dowdy, frigid and recently married 35 year old. She finds herself spending an evening with 59 year old Donna Naylor, an extrovert and ex-glamour model at Donna's house. Both have met ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2M One-Act. Details

Nemesis Rising Martin Hales, an ex-copper, has been diagnosed with cancer. His life has been shattered by the death of his wife, his imprisonment and his daughter's imprisonment. He has a score to settle with Ch ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): F1 M4 One-Act. Details

Net Curtains Widow, Olivia Dawson, an avid reader of romance novels yearns for the glamorous lifestyle of her characters instead of her urban breadline existence. A chance look out of her window reveals some st ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 9): F4 M5 Full-Length. Details

Next! Malcolm Dodd is a giant in the theatre world and an ogre. One day, during auditions for "A Midsummer- Night's Dream" his temper is at boiling point as auditions begin to run late. He is confronted by, ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 3M 2F One-Act. Details

One Rotten Apple As retired millionaire businessman, Martin Smith and his wife Joan, prepare for Christmas, their dark past is dragged up and given an annual airing, laced with a generous helping of alcohol on his par ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2M One-Act. Details

Preventative Detention A new initiative by the headmaster of a comprehensive school leaves Debbie Charlton with the unenviable task of supervising detention with a difference. As school resources are stretched, this is ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): F4 M3 One-Act. Details

Recycled When Baz Watson wins, "Have A Dirty Weekend On Us" competition run by a popular lads magazine, his prize is a weekend for two, at a hi-tech cottage at a secret location in the country. Kate, their "Mo ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 3F 3M One-Act. Details

Reversed Relationships Relationships come in all shapes and emotional sizes and the age gap conjures up some unlikely connotaions. Amanda, in her early sixties, is recovering from a divorce and contemplating a life alone, a ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): F3 M3 One-Act. Details

Romeo and Julian Gay, Billy Collins, an actor in his late forties, is going through a difficult relationship with his partner, who has embarked on a series of illicit affairs. He seeks solace and sympathy with an old ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 2): 2M One-Act. Details

Scenes In Between The Rosebud Theatre is in turmoil. Due to casting difficulties a play that was going to be produced has had to be abandoned. A second play is now in production and once again casting difficulties ari ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2M One-Act. Details

Simon Says Simon is the victim of a vicious attack by four youths which leaves him paralysed and confined to a wheelchair. His only means of communication is via his laptop computer. The culprits have not been a ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 8): 2F 7M One-Act. Details

Strangers By Arrangement When sixty year-old retired Human Resources manager, Amanda Bailey, arrives at the "Strada Florida" hotel in Mid- Wales, early on Friday evening, hoping for a discreet weekend with her youthful compan ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 10): F5 M5 Full-Length. Details

Tablecloths, Tissues and Tampons When MP's Emma Mason (Conservative) and Rob Jackson (Labour) decide to pool their resources and move to London and share a flat, all seems to be going well until several of their expense claims reach ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 5): 3F 2M One-Act. Details

Terminal Logic Miles Bowen, a down and out, wakes up one morning in a drunken stupor, bent on commiting suicide that day. He finds himself sharing a derelict room with an equally drunken down and out, Wendy Dobson ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 2): I F I M One-Act. Details

The Dummy Peter Johnson's life is slowly recovering after the loss of his wife in a traffic accident. He is ready to resurrect his career as a ventriloquist with his agumentative and vitriolic dummy, Albert, wh ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 3M,1F One-Act. Details

The Error Eric and Pat Harris arrive home to find their house has been stripped of its contents and sold. An estate agent arrives with a new contract and thinking them to be the new owners, Eric and Pat decide ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 7): F3 M4 One-Act. Details

The Golden Key It is 1931 in Cyprus and the country is gripped in civil unrest, as the British administration force tax laws on the community against the wishes of the National Council consisting of Greek and Turkis ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 15): F4 M11 Full-Length. Details

The Rewrite After critical acclaim for his trilogy of one-act plays "Family, Friends and other Enemies" under his directorship, Trevor James is resting on his laurels at a secluded hotel in mid-Wales. He enter ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 6): 4F 2M One-Act. Details

The War Effort In 1945, Winston Churchill and Arthur Eckersley stood shoulder to shoulder, celebrating their finest hour, ( but not a lot of people know that). Who the hell is Arthur Eckersley you might well ask? Re ... Author: HAILS, Christopher Cast (at least 4): 2F 2M One-Act. Details