By Dennis Kelly

Short Play, Drama, Contemporary

CASTING: 11M or F

Some teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right?

By David Foxton

Short Play, Drama

CASTING: 15M or F

This perceptive play for young adults, set ten years after the bomb, portrays with frightening clarity the destruction of human character as social standards are lost in a struggle for power and survival. In the ruins of an abandoned building fifteen teenage survivors struggle to make sense of the desolation. 

By Dan Zolidis

Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary

CASTING: 3M, 5F, 2M or F

It's the end of the world and hordes of rampaging zombies are about to kill you. What do you do? Try your hand at kung fu against the undead? Attempt to reason with creatures that would rather eat brains than use them? Turn to this handy and hilarious guide to survive the apocalypse!
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Adapted by Don Quinn. From the story by C.S. Lewis.

One Act, Fantasy/Adventure

CASTING: 15M or F

That master of imaginative enchantment, C.S. Lewis, has created a unique world and he invites children to walk into it and enjoy both surprise and adventure. An old house in rural England becomes the home base for four children who wander into an incredible country through an old wardrobe and help the country return to summer.

By Peter Shaffer

Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary

CASTING: 5M, 3F

Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique collector next door to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer.

By Edward Albee

Short Play, Drama, Contemporary

CASTING: 2M

To escape his wife, two daughters and two parakeets, Peter sits on a bench in Central Park, reading and thinking. Jerry joins him, having just been to the zoo. He draws the unwilling Peter into conversation and extracts information from him. In return Jerry supplies Peter with a curious medley of information about his wanderings in New York. The outcome of the meeting is a willing death for one of them.

By Lynn Brittney

Short Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI

CASTING: 2M, 4F

The Battle of Fromelles took place on the days of July 19th and 20th, 1916, and came to be known as "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history." This play recounts the story of a fictional "first body" in the shape of Mick Feeney -- stubborn Australian miner from Ballarat, who volunteered, even though he was in his late 30s.

By Lynn Brittney

Short Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary

CASTING: 1M, 4F

Carol and Anne are holding a residents' meeting for their block of flats, but the subject of ground rent gets lost in the welter of human issues that get aired on this particular evening. Anne is getting a divorce; Margaret's son has just told her that he is gay; Judith has a domineering husband and Carol is far from pleased to be "outed" as a lesbian.

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