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| The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical play |
| Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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| Never Mind The Butler by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy set in a stately home. With some robust language. |
| Synopsis | The stately home of the Uppington family is in peril once again, thanks to his Lordship's gambling. To save it from falling into the hands of Big Bob - The Cheat - McBruiser, desperate measures must be considered... Perhaps even murder! |
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The Normandy Conquests by David Weir
Constance Cox Award for best play (Sussex Playwrights) 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A wistful full length comedy - some strong language. |
| Synopsis | As a group of family and friends spend a weekend away in Normandy, past tensions come to the fore. Susan looks forward to seeing her lifelong unrequited crush Colin for the first time in 20 years, while trying not to murder her tedious husband Jeff. With her sister and niece, and Colin's libidinous brother and disapproving mum also in the Normandy farmhouse, the scene is set for tale of life, love and the ones that got away. |
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| Not 2B by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Excellent characters. Amanda especially would be a joy of a part - a scatty woman who's raised two wildly ambitious children, kind and soft except when she gets onto the subject of her ex-husband when she becomes positively possessed. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act play (but on the shorter side of that form). Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Amanda worries that her children, Tom and Laura, are too ambitious. Tom sets Laura up with a guy from his company, but the evening takes a few twists that no one was expecting. Luckily it all goes over Amanda's head, and she tells herself she's got a happy ending after all. |
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| Nothing Old Nothing New by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce with a single-setting - set over two acts, though could be performed in one. Some strong language |
| Synopsis | Valerie is dead but unable to leave her house, now occupied by her son and his wife Zoe - the cause of her fury and her enforced sit-in. Her grandson arrives to find his mother making plans for his sister’s wedding. When the bride and groom and his father arrive for the weekend along with the groom’s psychic mother, scandalous revelations lead to the wedding plans being blown apart and a ruined weekend, although chaotic events lead to Valerie’s happy release. |
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Nursery Crimes - The Catnap Kidnap Caper by tlc Creative
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst Puss-in-Boots is written male, he is, when all's said and done, a cat. Whilst this isn't a panto, Prince charming could be played by a girl as a pantomime Principal Boy. There's also a wolf... and a troll. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A daft detective story set in the worlds of Fairytale and Nursery Rhymes. A full length play addition to the popular Nursery Crimes series. Charles Perrault meets Raymond Chandler. |
| Synopsis | When a trio of bears go missing in Fairytale land, Private Investigator, Puss in Boots is hired to track them down. But as other groups of three animal start to disappear, it seems that the case could be just the start of something much more sinister! Puss, and his assistant Mary Quite Contrary, try to unpick the mystery, meeting Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Woodsmen, Trolls, Wolves, Soldiers and even Royalty along the way... |
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| Nursery Crimes - the Complete Series by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code. |
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| Occupational Hazards by Clive Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Offstage voices included, may be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy play with a single (Vicarage living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Reverend Bill Gould finds his church has been occupied by protestors - objecting to his involvement with a Financial Institution. The situation escalates as the press and the Bishop's press office become involved, and Bill struggles to deal with protestors, his churchwardens, his Banker brother, as well as his wife's infidelity. As far as we know - the clergy (and others) involved, swear more than the average cleric! |
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| Oh Pair! by Rob Ricards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy/farce. Single set, which, being a farce has a sofa, multiple doors and a set of French Windows. (The difference from every other stage set with French Windows is that this one is actually set in France!) Contains mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Maddy and James are on holiday with their daughter and her baby. They've hired a French girl to act as an au pair during the holiday and return to England with them. At least, that's what they tried to do, but Dominique turns out to be Dominic, and he has a few other surprises in store for them... |
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| Old Boilers by Adrian Cale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set (hotel foyer). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | When four women of a certain age decide to celebrate divorce in style, they hit upon the idea of a Hen Party in Blackpool - a chance to get away from it all and let their hair down. Except what happens when a face from the past looms along the Prom? And what if that face is the last one you want to see, this side of the Irish Sea... |
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