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Girls' NightAuthorLouise Roche
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped.
Synopsis Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications.
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Exclusions Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:-
The USA & Canada, from the first day of October, 2007 to the last day of December, 2020
South Africa, from the first day of October, 2007 to the last day of December, 2020
Australia & New Zealand, from the first day of October, 2007 to the last day of December, 2020
Charles Dickens' Christmas EveAuthorWende Feller
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the male characters is a child. The script has a cast of 18, but divided across the two acts so that the cast of 9 from the first act can double to perform the second act.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A series of Christmas Carols is recommended in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Two act period piece. Single set with split-level stage.
Synopsis The first act focuses on Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, adapted from material by Washington Irving, Jane Austen and Wilkie Collins. The second act is Wende Feller's adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Moving With The TimesAuthorJennifer Garthwright
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children.
Run time Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.)
Synopsis Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage.
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Acting FunnyAuthorJack Burgess
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
Style A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches.
Synopsis A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs,five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.]
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A Fairy Tale AdventureAuthorSophia Holder
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
Synopsis The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
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An Elliot Steinway MysteryAuthorGary Diamond
Roles Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark.
Synopsis Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably.
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Apartment of the FeignAuthorChanning Cornwall
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length play (technically in three acts). A drama of personality and disturbance.
Synopsis Bert shares his apartment with three imaginary friends who are very real to him. He’s visited and then befriended by Liz, who's escaping from her abusive cop boyfriend. Bert's imaginary friends don't like Liz, but Bert falls in love with her. Finally Liz arrives so badly beaten that she dies in Bert's arms. He's arrested for the murder by unsympathetic cops and, at the last, is deserted even by his imaginary friends.
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Big IdeaAuthorNigel 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A comedy, set in the present day, satirising the activities of a local amateur dramatic company. Minimal set is required, although a variety of 'sound effects' props which are used live are essential. Production 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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Building BridgesAuthorColin Calvert
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character (the dog walker) could be an offstage voice!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length character comedy with an environmental theme. Single set - simple, give or take the boardwalk which is constructed on-stage during the show! Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis It's nerdy Clive's first time with The Ferrets - a group of environmental volunteers - and today they're building a boardwalk over some boggy ground. What will he make of officious Bob, strident Beryl and ASBO Mandy? And what's so special about Molly's culinary offerings?
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Emporium - The Story of the StoreAuthorBob Tucker
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. A crowd of indeterminate number enters towards the end of the final act. (The minimum is one, which is small, as crowds go, but in this case feasible!)
Run time Around 135 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy play (in three acts). Single set. A combination of the five short plays of the Emporium series.
Synopsis In a strange retail outlet (no matter what the problem, our happy smiling staff are always here to blame the customer!) romance blossoms between one of the staff and a policeman brought-in to investigate a break-in.
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Faith, Hope and BerthaAuthorDaniel Krueger
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One character is deliberately doubled - playing twin brothers.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A temperance melodrama, complete with perfect heroines, mustachioed villain, exaggerated gestures and asides. A lot of comedy to be had from playing this straight! Two interior sets, plus front-of-cloth scenes.
Synopsis In the wilds of the Yukon, dastardly villain, Ivan Mean has designs on the estate of Ben Upright - and he intends to get them by hook or by crook. That includes marrying Ben's daughter, Faith - but first he has to be rid of her intended, Ernest Noble...
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Fone HomeAuthorNicholas Conti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults, some of whom are deceased (and therefore ageless!)
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full length play, single set (split between two apartments)
Synopsis Nick and Jen’s marriage is threatened by his addiction to work and her attraction to her boss. When Nick accidentally dials his old home number, he is astonished to hear his mother (dead for twenty years) answer the phone. She, Nick's Dad and Nick's Uncle Louie are all on the line from Heaven with advice to help Nick through the hard times. But will it be enough to save the marriage?
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God's MinstrelAuthorJoseph P. Ritz
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set.
Synopsis Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling.
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Green Things in SpaceAuthorPaul Gisby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, two people appear on video and there are several voice-overs.
Run time Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length play. Simultaneously comic and poignant. Stage (and action) split between a modern hospital and the deck of a sci-fi spaceship!
Synopsis Stan is in hospital, suffering from the effects of years of working with asbestos, but he lives on in his unpublished science fiction epic - an unintentionally hilarious account of a galactic war.
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Hair of the DogAuthorMolly McCluskey
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props.
Synopsis In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!]
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His Shoes Were Far Too TightAuthorJohn Chambers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The ages of the two characters vary considerably (and not sequentially!) during the play!
Run time Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length play for two actors. A study of character and relationships. Contains some swearing.
Synopsis The English eccentric (artist, musician and writer of nonsense verse) Edward Lear takes a sentimental journey back through his relationship with his loyal Albanian servant Giorgis Kokalis. They recall their first meeting, their travels, arguments and understandings.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?AuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Funny full length British farce. Single set (hotel reception area). Contains mild swearing and intimations of nudity and adultery (obviously an adult theme).
Synopsis Banker Roger Crompton is hoping to celebrate his fiftieth birthday by consummating an adulterous affair with a colleague. Unfortunately, the hotel he's picked just happens to be the one his colleague has been threatening to shut down. In true dirty weekend tradition, they are booked in the name of Jones, but of course, they aren't the only Joneses staying in the hotel - there's Nathan Pond, an aging rock star, heading for a festival with his agent, but also hiding from a stalker. Mistaken identity abounds, not least when Roger assumes that the local policewoman is really a stripogram.
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It's On, It's OffAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All adults. Range of ages.
Run time Around 115 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A tight, funny farce in two acts. Single (living room) set.
Synopsis It's two days before Tina Humphrey's wedding and her parents, Gerald and Daphne, are expecting their daughter's future mother-in-law for dinner. However, with infidelity, illegitimate children and a case of mistaken identity, all Daphne really wants to know is whether it's on or it's off!
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Le Petit MortAuthorPhillip Rudy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Play with a contemporary setting. Three acts, many sets (therefore naturalistic treatment would be impractical!) Contains explicit language, strong adult themes, some graphic sexual dialogue, and brief violence.
Synopsis David and Karen pursue a stormy relationship on and off the stage - exploring the relationship between sex, love and commitment.
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Local NewsAuthorSean Dooley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length farcical comedy. Multiple sets (intended to be changed quickly via backdrops). Unusually (for a modern play), divided into five acts - indicating the phases of the story, rather than places for audience breaks!
Synopsis The town of Taviscombe is a quiet, peaceful hamlet, however this leaves the local newspaper and police force without much to do. To try and combat their boredom and get themselves recognised on a national level, both organisations independently plan a robbery. Unfortunately the fool-proof schemes they come up with are identical, leading to a great deal of confusion and the disappearance of the money they were targeting.
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Looking BackAuthorDavid Wheatley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are a couple played at various ages - from sixteen to well-past sixty. The number of actors required to do this is a matter for the production - the minimum is four. Whilst there is no requirement for a chorus, there is one group scene.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length bitter-sweet play with a split-stage set. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis A couple in their late sixties are at the seaside where they met, reviewing the significant events of their lives on a very special day.
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Mark Twain and LivyAuthorJoseph P. Ritz
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Poignant full-length biographical play. Contains mild swearing (from an era when it was probably called 'cussing').
Synopsis An elderly Mark Twain escorts us through the early days of his marriage to Livy Langdon, from their first night in their new house, through to the day they left it with their first child. An emotional and insightful play about two strong-willed characters.
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Midwinter FollyAuthorTrevor Hughes
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. (The doubling assumes that Alan and 'Bad News' are played by the same actor, which cuts out Alan's final non-speaking entrance.)
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy whodunnit. Single set (furnished living room with the inevitable French Windows). Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis There's to be a play reading at Midwinter Folly, but one of the guests is not at all welcome. When she's found dead the next morning, there's no shortage of suspects. (They're actors - so acting suspiciously comes naturally.) A good, theatrical murder mystery.
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Mind Over ManorAuthorLoretta Willoughby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are all adults. They are written as 3M, 7F, but one of the male characters could be switched to female with the change of a couple of lines.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Modern comedy play. Single set (reception room of large, old US house), simple props. Three acts.
Synopsis Jasmine and Chester arrive at Summer Meadows, a large out-of-town mansion, looking for the owner. What they meet is a collection of people who are, at the very least, eccentric. When Jasmine starts to question them fierecely, the residents start to question her motives - then Jasmine goes missing...
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Murder! Mystery! - and Suspenders?AuthorKaren Doling
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All characters are adults. Variety of ages.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic take on the classic whodunnit. Single box set with practical door and French window.
Synopsis There's a body in the library - apparently strangled with a suspender belt (unless you're American, in which case he was strangled with a garter belt) - a mystery to be solved and lots of people acting suspiciously. All the ingredients of the classic whodunnit, including the pipe-smoking amateur detective - though in this case, she might well be one of the suspects!
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Name That MurderAuthorTroy Shearer
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run time Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two-act, single-set farce.
Synopsis All the classic elements of a farce, with lovers, spurned husbands, misunderstandings, discoveries and deceptions. Plus, of course, a huge number of entrances and exits! (All this and an errant toupee.)
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Nursery Crimes - the Complete SeriesAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements.
Synopsis A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code.
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Oh Pair!AuthorRob Ricards
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy/farce. Single set, which, being a farce has a sofa, multiple doors and a set of French Windows. (The difference from every other stage set with French Windows is that this one is actually set in France!) Contains mild adult themes.
Synopsis Maddy and James are on holiday with their daughter and her baby. They've hired a French girl to act as an au pair during the holiday and return to England with them. At least, that's what they tried to do, but Dominique turns out to be Dominic, and he has a few other surprises in store for them...
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Perfect DuckAuthorPaul Gisby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Two of the characters have brief non-speaking roles. All characters are adults.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full length drama with a lot of comedy. Mainly one set, with an episode in another location (which could be created by lighting and props). A couple of unusual props! Contains swearing and mild adult themes.
Synopsis JJ and Bobby are trying to build up their hotel business. She's the New Age consultant, running life-changing courses with the help of Sam the beauty therapist. He's the chef, preparing the gourmet food and trying to breed the perfect duck. The trouble is, something keeps stealing the ducks, and the hotel guests are in for more than they bargained for - with the possible exception of Ivan, who is in danger of leaving with less than he brought...
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PigAuthorPaul Gisby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. One small role for a child (assumed male), the rest are adults.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length black comedy play. Many scene changes, so minimallist sets with settings indicated by essential props.
Synopsis A pioneering transplant operation gives Iuean a pig's kidney. Unfortunately, the kidney starts to take over, and it's not just any old pig...
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Pleased to See the KingAuthorAdrian Cale
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are adults with a variety of ages (some need to be credibly the adult offspring of others!)
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Combination of Costume Drama and Farce. Single set (interior of a country inn in 1775). Simple props.
Synopsis There's excitement at the 'Kings Arms' when it is announced that the King is expected in the neighbourhood. Then the actors arrive - not so much strolling players as players on the run, not wishing to be recognised, so at first it is very convenient to be mistaken for the king. At least until the real king arrives. (And, since the King is George III, it's no surprise that it all gets a little mad.)
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Putting it AboutAuthorSue Gowers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy. A single-set British farce, complete with multiple practical doors, behind which lurk multiple practical (and emotional) problems!
Synopsis Though married, Danny is keeping a harem of ladies on the boil, including his step mother in-law. They all arrive at the house on the same afternoon, and he manages to keep them separate until his younger brother Matt arrives to throw a spanner in the works.
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Read All About ItAuthorColin Calvert
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing.
Synopsis It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned...
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Ripping Off AngelsAuthorNigel Holloway
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!)
Synopsis The Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels!
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SammyAuthorHilary Mackelden
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Brilliantly written full-length play about coping with the long-term medical problems of a family member (who never appears on the stage). Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis Jenny and Mark have a young son, Sammy, who has Prader Willi syndrome, a compulsive eating disorder. Mark wanted a son desperately, but is shocked by Sammy's condition and the work it will entail. Christine and Phil next door can't have children at all, so they are constant visitors. Eighteen years of family strife in one play.
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Strangers ReunitedAuthorPaul Mathews
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy play for the Friends reunited generation, people who have dreamed of or dreaded the school reunion. It's fun, unpredictable, compelling, and has that touch of drama that marks a really good comedy. Contains swearing and adult themes.
Synopsis A couple whose marriage is on the rocks each attend an old school reunion without telling each other they're going. Tom is going there to see an old flame, and maybe rekindle it, but Emma has an entirely different encounter in mind...
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Tea With Mrs PankhurstAuthorRuth Urquhart & James Douglas
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles).
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set.
Synopsis The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage.
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The Affairs At Meddler's TopAuthorRichard Coleman
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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 a revealed, leading up to a murder.
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The Capers at Cricketers' CopseAuthorRichard 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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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The Clamourings at Giggly HaltAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One female character appears briefly in only one scene, so could easily be doubled. Two male characters are telephone voices, and could be doubled.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic mystery.
Synopsis A daring robbery has taken place at Meddler's Top, but the thieves set off the alarms and need somewhere to stash the loot. Sir Pingnet Threefall is having an affair with Miranda from the holiday camp, and they need to be discrete. Harry Toxin is suffering from large-scale pilfering, a cash flow crisis and accusations of cruelty to donkeys. In the middle of all this, there's a campaign to protect a nesting corncrake, and all the threads are converging at Giggly Halt railway station.
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The Death on the Smug JugglerAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the female characters is optional (with only a brief appearance for the first scene). If this character is dropped then alternative dialogue is provided in the Producer's copy of the script.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Classical 'Whodunnit' - a closed environment, a murder and lots of motives - as a full-length play. Single main set plus front-of-gauze scenes. Simple props.
Synopsis Theodore Shimmer is a businessman, smuggler, blackmailer and crook - a man who easily attracts enemies - and many of them seem to have been invited onto 'The Smug Juggler' for a Nile cruise. There's the fading film-star, the debt-ridden gambler, the dodgy doctor and the business rival. No surprise, then, that Theodore Shimmer is found dead. However, the manner of his death is more of a surprise. (Fans of this genre will be led to thinking that they are witnessing a cross between 'Death on the Nile' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' - only to be taken in by the author's cunning plot twist!)
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The Fumblings at Friar's BottomAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comedy, verging on light farce
Synopsis Friar's Bottom is a decaying English Boarding School in the 1950s. Most of the staff are looking to escape - not necessarily with their current partners. Full of double dealings with a shady bookmaker and an American property developer.
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The Ghosts of Marvin GrangeAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults.
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.)
Synopsis Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely more to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad...
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The Goodbridge MillionAuthorSean Dooley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comedy play. One set, split between three distinct locations.
Synopsis After years of discussing the same old issues, the Parish Council of the hamlet of Goodbridge is suddenly handed the amazing news that a foreign benefactor is giving the village one million pounds to be spent according to the villagers' wishes. The councillors organise a meeting to allow people to present their proposals for the use of the money, then hold a secret ballot. Unfortunately for the nursery extension, the sports hall and the new church organ, there is an outbreak of tactical voting and the proposal to host the world Scrabble championships wins by a landslide. But never mind all that - the important questions are: can Will ever pluck up enough courage to ask Persephone to marry him? and how will his school play turn out?
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The Greatest Form of FlatteryAuthorAmy Sutton
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing.
Synopsis Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone.
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The Japes at Jester's ReachAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A very funny comedy with strong characters and various plot lines woven well together to a satisfactory resolution! Requires careful set design.
Synopsis The annual Snorton Bennington Croquet Tournament is being held at Jester's Reach, home of Lord and Lady Digby-Slushing. When the local champion pulls out, a stand-in is required. However, due to an unfortunate incident with a policeman's helmet the tournament stand-in isn't who everyone thinks he is either. Chaos ensues as unexpected visitors arrive and attempts are made to rig the tournament and steal the trophy.
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The Killings at Snowball's DriftAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. A (male) newsreader appears in the opening prologue. Could be doubled with the Police Inspector or could be done as a voice over.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two-act murder mystery set in 1948. Single interior set (with the stage split into two or three rooms). Simple props.
Synopsis Snowball's Drift is the home of Sir Gerald Mooncast, head of the Mooncast publishing empire. Authors are gathering at the house for the announcement of the annual Mooncast literary prize. In addition to the artistic tensions, there's skulduggery within the publishing house, romantic rivalries for the affections of Sir Gerald and a family feud involving his estranged sons. The stage is set for murder!
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The Long RoadAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters cover a range of ages from young adults to retired.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]