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The Bright and Shiny Radio Show [Robust Edition] by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 61. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Which could be increased with addition of musical numbers between sketches. |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 26 sketches suitable for either a radio show or a stage revue. (There are sound effects, but no props or set requirements listed.) This 'robust' edition has three more sketches and a few more rude words than the family edition. |
Synopsis | A comedy collection, which includes a number of very problematic job interviews, investigations into the difficulties of being a snake, a homing pigeon or an insect, unlikely various television and radio shows and the inevitable doctor's sketch, along with a couple of running gags. |
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The Cabbage Consortium by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single pub setting. |
Synopsis | A disparate group of pub regulars join forces to develop Harry’s sure fire money making scheme involving the cabbage futures market. Things go well until the Russian Mafia get wind of the machinations and the consortium find themselves in difficulties with the gangsters. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Cabbage Consortium' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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A Case of Good Intentions by Peter Stallard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Cause for Alarm by Gareth Rubin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farcical comedy play. Contains swearing (which, considering the mayhem involved, is not surprising!) |
Synopsis | It's Health and Safety Inspection Day at the Nuclear Power Plant, but when the inspector himself causes an accident, no one feels healthy or safe. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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Chekhov's Shorts by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of five short plays based on short stories by Anton Chekhov. |
Synopsis | A Lottery Ticket adapted from the story of the same title A Meeting on a Train Loosely adapted from 'An Enigmatic Nature' Difficult People adapted from the story of the same title Natalie’s Vacation adapted from 'A Tripping Tongue' I’m Famous based on 'Joy' |
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A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! |
Synopsis | Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. |
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The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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Director's Cut by Chris de Vere Hunt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (village hall) setting. |
Synopsis | The Huntscombe Valley Players are rather unambitious and set in their ways when it comes to choosing the annual village play. Newcomer Tristram, an experienced director, puts the cat amongst the pigeons - with his bold attempts to break the mould. |
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The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage. An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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