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| Blind Date, Inc. 111 by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight scenes, eight couples - but since the stories run consecutively, the minimum is two pairs, with lots of doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs. |
| Synopsis | This follows exactly the same structure as the two predecessors Blind Date Inc, and Blind Date, Inc. 2 but with a different set of couples working out different relationships, covering a range of odd issues, with even Sherlock Holmes taking up the dating game! |
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| Blind Date, Inc. 2 by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs. |
| Synopsis | This follows exactly the same structure as Blind Date Inc, but with a different set of couples working out different relationships! |
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Blood On Canvas by Richard James
Best Seller Performance by Teignmouth Players reached the quarter finals of the South Devon Drama festival 2017 and picked-up a best actress award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tense one act thriller with a single (art gallery) setting. |
| Synopsis | Artist Maddie is beginning to establish herself as a successful artist, but her studio and gallery are situated in a remote area and a killer is apparently on the loose. When art collector Stella arrives, it becomes clear that one of them is the killer. The tension rises inexorably... to the shocking final denouement. |
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Bloody Actors! by Archie Wilson
Halton Amateur Theatre Society won the Ralph Newble award for the best comedic moment at the RAFTA one act drama festival April 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single set. |
| Synopsis | A group of retired actors living in a nursing home try to get along but events from their past careers make it difficult. The answer seems to lie in preparing and performing a play for the other residents. |
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The Book Club Of Little Witterington - After The Fete by Joan Greening
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | The ladies of the village book club have gathered to discuss Neville Shute’s ‘On The Beach’. Some of the members have not read the book and the others seem more interested in discussing - or rather gossiping - about people and events in the village which spill over into the meeting. |
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| The Book Club Of Little Witterington - The Vicar's Wife by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) setting. The third in a series, it can be presented either separately or alongside the first two as a full evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | The ladies of the bookclub have gathered again, this time with a new member, the vicar’s newlywed. Once again, gossip and tittle-tattle overwhelm the discussion of the chosen book, ‘The Rector’s Wife’, and the new member finds herself and husband Dennis are the centre of attention. |
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The Book Club of Little Witterington by Joan Greening
Best Seller Performance by Tarrystone Players won Best Comedy award at Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2013. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for five ladies. Minimal set (a sofa and chairs to indicate a living room). Contains a few mild swearwords and several books. |
| Synopsis | The regular ladies of the Book Club, all friends since school, are wary of letting a newcomer to the village join. But there's more to Paula than meets the eye, and she may even have what it takes to get around the appallingly snobbish Belle. |
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| Botany Bother by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Gerald, Geoffrey and Aloysius are written male, but need not be - well, give or take the beard. There are six speaking parts amongst the natives, but there could be many more chanting parts, if you happen to have a spare chorus of natives to hand. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. The majority of characters speak a hitherto undiscovered language. (Fortunately, the script contains a glossary.) |
| Synopsis | A pair of intrepid botanical collectors have an unfortunate encounter with the local inhabitants. |
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| Bottle by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and one teenager. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, two (simple) hospital sets (one with a practical cubicle door). Contains strong adult themes and extremely offensive language from the rebellious teenager. |
| Synopsis | Tom and his stepfather Clive are in the intensive care ward, waiting for news of Tom's mother, who has been viciously beaten. Clive calls Tom's real father Paul, who comes to join them. The three argue about blame, love and life, but can the two men handle the truth about who really beat Tom's mum? |
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| A Bottle Of Sherry by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a living room setting. |
| Synopsis | A misprint in a newspaper has inspired two redundant employees of a sherry importer to take up a new and risky career as 'gurglars'. On one of their working days, when they visit a house without bothering to ask the inhabitants, they stumble upon a domestic secret exposing the hidden life of an apparently respectable lawyer. A tangle of extra-marital affairs, money laundering and sherry thieves, together with a string of coincidences is unravelled in this fast moving farce. |
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