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The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Run Time Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) Synopsis A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
A Brief Encounter with Murder by Peter John Cooper	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Jones the Carpet is written female, but could be either. Run Time Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Absurd comedy. Single livingroom set. Synopsis A restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher, the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man with the Big Hammer? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Connection by Graham Jones	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Run Time Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act comedy play. Not so much a whodunnit as a 'what on earth is going on'? As it morphs from a comedy of mistaken identity to thriller and back. Single (simple office) set. Synopsis Five strangers, with five very different problems, are called to a certain office to meet Mr Hargreaves... But he isn't there! Is there a more sinister reason for them being locked in together? Can they find out what connects them? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Consequences by Duncan Battman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Run Time Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act play. Single interior set. A very theatrical presentation, without being melodramatic. Contains unsavory language (and murder, and policemen). Synopsis A young policeman and his older sergeant discover a dead body, along with a letter that casts new light on a long closed case. A case that the sergeant worked on a young PC, which may have resulted in the wrong man being jailed and dying in prison. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Custard and Disinfectant by Jim Pinnock Performance by Carbost Community Drama came overall second at the Skye Division One Act Drama Festival, 2012	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Murder mystery with a darkly comic edge. Includes swearting. Synopsis Albert's a terror in the old folks' home, making improper suggestions and using bad language. But when he's found dead with a dagger in his chest and sleeping pills under his chair, the problem isn't whodunit, but who DIDN'T... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Dead Ringer by Stuart Ardern	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults Run Time Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Not so much a whodunnit as 'who is doing what to whom?' One-act play, single simple interior set. Synopsis Margo drags her friend Fran to a séance. The sceptical Fran doesn't expect to be able to contact Margo's dead husband but then strange things begin to happen... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
The Double-Headed Penny-Farthing by Robert Black	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Run Time Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short one-act play, single set. Synopsis Holmes and Watson crack a curious case of diamond-thievery without even leaving the fireside of 221b Baker Street. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Frame That Fits by William Campbell	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Interesting crafting of character - especially on the part of Richard Gloster, the unorthodox detective, who, given his name, has a tendency to attempt iambic pentameter. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act detective story - not so much a 'whodunnit?' as a 'how do we prove that he dunnit?' Multiple locations, but intended to be represented minimally in a single composite set. Contains mild swearing. Synopsis A family has been found murdered - apparently by their daughter, who then took her own life. The police suspect a frame-up, since the family's nephew stands to profit from their deaths, but they need to call on the unorthodox services of Private Investigator Richard Gloster to prove it. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Inspector Quaker of the Yard by Peter Stallard	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act comedy play - a spoof detective story. Synopsis Cecil has gone missing (from his position on the mantlepiece) and Lady Boulder has to find him - and his urn. The stage is set for Inspector Quaker of the Yard in The Return of the Cecil Vessel. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! Run Time Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. Synopsis There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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