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Being of Sound Mind by Andrew Hull
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. (One character is - deliberately - uncredited in the script.) |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Edward Goodchild has died, and the will is read. Penny and Stephen are hoping for cash. Rebecca wants the truth about her sister's death. Martin is surprised to be there, but to get a single penny, they must first survive a night in the house. |
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| Between Appointments by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters plus two offstage voices and the option of additional non-speaking patients in the dentist's surgery. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act comedy/farce with a split stage - half dental surgery, half living room. |
| Synopsis | Jeffrey gets himself into a tangle when his girlfriend Veronica and wife Claudia end up with identical handbags...
And just as Veronica has got herself out of that mess, there's the arrival of her jailbird brother who needs cover - and think's Veronica is it.
The two acts of this play function as separate one-act plays and are available separately as - Switched and AKA Charlie |
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| Beware of the Agapanthus by Robert Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and an offstage male voice (called Dave). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a well crafted comedy with a gentle start which gathers pace as the chaotic situation develops. Contains swearing |
| Synopsis | The credit crunch has not been kind to ex-investment banker James who has not only lost his job but also his investments along with his gold digger wife Geraldine. His Father has died and left him, and spinster Sister Peggy, a large house in a village in rural Ireland where he decides to make a new life for himself. The barbecue party he has arranged to get to know his neighbours descends into chaos with a series of unexpected arrivals and equally unexpected revelations. |
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| Big Idea by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy satirising an amateur dramatic company. Minimal set but a variety of 'sound effects' props which are used live are essential. Notes include how to make a Wind Machine! |
| Synopsis | Big Idea is a comedy about the members of the local amateur dramatic society, the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company (none of whom bears any resemblance to anyone you might have met). The 'Big Idea' in question is a new television series, where a lucky person gets the chance to fulfil a great ambition. In this case, the Off-the-Wall company's director, the egotistical Jonathan, has harboured a dream of writing a masterpiece for the stage. The TV series gives him the chance to have his play broadcast on national television - with the help of the other members of the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company, who do not necessarily share Jonathan's view of his abilities. |
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| Births, Deaths and Marriages by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients in the second act. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in three acts (each in a different setting). |
| Synopsis | A family saga told through three comic episodes. Laughter turns into tension in all three plays as family frictions and heartaches unfold.
Each of the three components is also available separately:
Arrival
Oncology
Anniversary |
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| A Bit of a Problem by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Mary should be old enough to be Adam's mother. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An unusual, full length play with strong language and adult situations, in two split settings. |
| Synopsis | Against their better judgement, Mike and Adam have brought their wives to see the local drama group's play. But the plot of a man sleeping with his brother's wife hits a bit close to home and a whole surprising bunch of secrets come tumbling out in one busy evening. |
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| A Bride In The Hand by Angela Lanyon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Widowed Kate is to marry George and daughter Vickie is doing her best to organise the wedding day, which is becoming more and more frenetic. Best man Eddie is variously mistaken for a delivery man, an electrician and Vickie’s fiancée - but his true identity turns out to be even more bizarre. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
| Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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| Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
| Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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| The Capers at Cricketers' Copse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A tale of intrigue, and double cross as the Ladies of the village of Fritton-upon-Sewer decide to stage their own cricket match, when Fritton should be playing in the first round of the Brewster Cup. Meanwhile a diverse range of suspicious characters are trying to take control of the cricket ground. All this, and hidden treasure too... |
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