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| Playing Around by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, set (very simply) on a golf course and in the clubhouse. |
| Synopsis | Andy, Colin and Ian are golfing, but Ian is having a terrible round, made worse by the others' helpful comments. And the following week, Andy is agonising about how to tell Ian that he's not really been womanising, but seeing Ian's own daughter, and they want to marry. |
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| Playing With Elvis by James Skivington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Musicians John and Michelle have retired from showbusiness and taken up gardening. Their peace is interrupted by their old singing partner, the alcoholic Alec, who has news of a possible comeback. Comedy and pathos mingle as they consider their options. |
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| Pluck by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act period farce. Single set (the office of a 1900 Midwest department store). Few props. |
| Synopsis | Oliver is a successful department store owner who is disenchanted with his marriage (his check book tells him so) and he's looking for an outlet for his affections. His roving eye falls upon Isabella, a newly arrived immigrant who - unknown to him - is the former girlfriend of his store manager - that same store manager who Oliver is trying to marry-off to his wife's sister. All the ingredients of a classic farce, played out in 25 minutes. |
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The Point of the Pyramid - Musical by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Thirteen speaking roles with lots of supporting players (with a lot of scope for doubling). The songs need three or four soloists and a chorus or choir. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music (piano and vocal) for six original songs. |
| Style | One-act historical, educational, musical comedy mystery! (What more could you want?) A story of intrigue in Ancient Egypt with a lot of period detail (suitable for the Key Stage 2 history syllabus) snuck in! |
| Synopsis | Someone is plotting against the Pharaoh! On a visit to the construction site of his much-delayed pyramid, his life is threatened by a falling stone. Luckily, Baki, one of the slave builders, saves the Pharaoh and is rewarded with his freedom. Then Baki learns that the Pharaoh has had four food-tasters poisoned in the last three weeks. Can he save the Pharaoh's life again? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Poison by David Neale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two middle-aged men. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Thriller with elements of black comedy. Single interior set. |
| Synopsis | Dennis isn't expecting a visitor, but Archie has something to tell him. Intending to poison his own wife, Archie has been making toxic flapjacks. Sadly, Susan has been giving them away to Dennis, so he's the one who's going to die. But it's an odder day than that for both men.
One room, two men, one way to die! |
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| The Politics Of Bendy by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act political farce in a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Godfrey was hoping Charles would hand him the leadership of the opposition, leaving him a dead cert for Prime Minister, but now Charles has decided to hang on and Godfrey's wife is looking more like Lady Macbeth. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Politics of Bendy' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| Port and Starboard by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Archibald is written male but could be played female (preferably with a different name, and as 'secretary' rather than 'office boy') |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play adapted from an O. Henry short story. Single set divided into three rooms and a waiting area. (This sounds complex, but could be done physically or just with imagination.) |
| Synopsis | Lawyer Gooch has handled many cases of divorce, and arranged the rescuing of more than one marriage. This time he faces three clients, all involved in the same marital discord. Can he untangle the threads and still come out a winner? |
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| Postal by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length whacky comedy play (in two acts). Single set divided into the front and back offices of the Post Office. |
| Synopsis | A dysfunctional post office in Hicksville has a tough inspection, which isn't helped by a former employee taking everyone hostage in an attempt to get his job back. Illicit affairs, novels in progress and unrequited love, not to mention robbery ensure a busy time for all. |
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| Prerogative by Paul Foster |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Pensioner Veronica has settled very nicely into her cottage and has developed a substantial (and profitable) following amongst the men in the village. News of her saucy exploits has reached her daughters who are at first determined to put a stop to it but second thoughts start to creep in. Sibling rivalries boil to the surface and established ideas of family, love, relationships and cake are explored. |
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| Pretty Flamingo by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a single (simple Irish Pub) setting. |
| Synopsis | Liam's girlfriend has dumped him - again! His friend Ronan has taken him to the pub to drown his sorrows. There they meet a couple of regulars for the craic - a sympathetic ear, and some irreverent advice deliverd in the belief that they hold the answers to the mysteries of women. |
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