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| Cold Front by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is a radio voice from offstage and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with farcical overtones, in a remote hut setting. |
| Synopsis | When Mike whisks Karen away to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands, he thinks he's planned the perfect birthday surprise. But things soon sour when the cottage turns out to be nothing more than a rusty tin shack, and the friends Mike has invited are people Karen can't stand. As tensions rise and temperatures plummet, they find themselves entombed in a blizzard, leading to frosty exchanges and those of a more amorous nature. |
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| Costa de los Fugitivos by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single Spanish hotel terrace setting. Some lines in Spanish, translations provided. |
| Synopsis | Fugitive criminals Harry and Reg think they have found the ideal hiding place in an out-of-the-way Spanish hotel. But the peace is chaotically interrupted when English guests arrive and the past - from their old police nemesis to their wives - catches up with them. |
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Curtain Up! by Adam Croft
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy, in two acts, with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | The Gerrysthorpe Amdram group are putting on a new play, but despite finding a cast, they may be in trouble. The village hall is going to be demolished to make way for Waitrose, so the performances have been moved up drastically! |
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| Dance With The Devil by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] Approximate timing includes songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for six traditional songs, with alternative lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length restoration-style comedy with music. |
| Synopsis | When Charles II is restored to the crown in 1660, multitudes of aristocratic émigrés return from exile in Paris, bringing with them a lifestyle rich in a French flamboyance quite alien to the English Puritans. Lord Ascot agrees to take on a young French footman, Claude Duval, whose Gallic affectations and charms quickly catch the eye of Lady Ascot and her circle of friends. Unbeknown to his employers, Duval is a compulsive gambler with a penchant for committing robbery on the highway. |
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| Darra's Coffin [Full-Length Version] by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single (undertaker's workshop) setting. Contains adult language and themes. |
| Synopsis | Funeral Director Darra's death puts the future of the business in jeopardy and workers Gladwyn, Tom and Terry take drastic action to prevent Darra's blowsy widow Winnie from selling out to competitors Musgroves. Their tactics soon get out of hand... |
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| Date with Destiny by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The non-speaking 'barperson' is written female in the script, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy (with a touch of romance) in two acts. One simple set in each act - an office and a bar. |
| Synopsis | Mrs White has been running her dating agency for over forty years, but now she's decided to advertise! The new influx of customers get matched up, but the files are dropped and the only clue Mrs White's decisions is her remark 'They all match up as famous couples'... |
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| Death in a Most Peculiar Manor by Roger Mathewson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery play. Single box set - the classic domestic set, complete with French windows. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Old, right-wing Sir Edwin teagle-Bland is furious with his son for being thrown out of college and worried his wife will find out he's planning to sell off part of the estate to make a golf course. When he's killed in his own gun room, most people assume it's suicide, but there's much more than meets the eye. |
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| Death's Desire by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dark full-length drama, with simple staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | Lawrence’s latest therapy client is both challenging and a little scary. Confessing to multiple marriages under false pretences, and then murder, things only get worse when he reveals how much he knows about Lawrence’s fiancée. |
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| Deborah's Party by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English farce in two acts. Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing (and intimations of goings-on.) |
| Synopsis | Deborah Jarvis has arranged a dinner party for her 'unlucky in love' work colleague Jenny. Her plan is to pair Jenny off with mild-mannered neighbour Simon. But Jenny already has a suitor in highly-strung TV producer Barnaby Ruttle. Barnaby's unwanted appearance during the course of the evening will test Deborah's nerves. Unknown to Deborah, husband Alan and even cleaning lady Mrs Seymour are also about to have their nerves tested by further arrivals. |
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| The Devenish Curse by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts, with a single set - a lavish 'Jacobean house' lounge. |
| Synopsis | Susie Devenish inherits Devenish Hall, but immediately realises that a large financial injection is needed to keep the house running. Her new boyfriend Jago has a scheme to help her... Unfortunately for Susie, of a nervous disposition, Devenish Hall is thought to have its own curse and that serious misfortune is about to strike someone in the house. Luckily Inspector Trench is on hand to put everyone's mind at rest. So we can all sleep easy, can't we? |
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