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Custard and DisinfectantAuthorJim Pinnock
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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...
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Death in CharacterAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play.
Synopsis The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim.
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Inspector Quaker of the YardAuthorPeter Stallard
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle DoodleAuthorErica Glenn
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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?
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Miss Glossop Comes to TeaAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Character ages range from young adult to retired.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set (domestic living room). One-act play.
Synopsis Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits an old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty.
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Miss Glossop's Weekend BreakAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters range from young adults to retirees.
Run time Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set. One act play.
Synopsis A murder is committed at a small hotel, and Miss Glossop is on hand to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions. A second outing for the incompetent detective who first appeared in Miss Glossop Comes to Tea. (Note that this is not a sequel - the two plays function independently.)
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Murder in the GreenroomAuthorIris Winston
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Very short one-act play. A murder mystery with a single simple set (backstage at a theatre) and good opportunities for character acting.
Synopsis It looks like the new members of the 'Oak Six' drama club are getting on the nerves of the founders, but surely the old guard wouldn't resort to murder? Or would they?
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Over My Dead Body!AuthorPat Baker
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic murder mystery set in a manor house in the 1920s. One act, one set, simple props.
Synopsis Tensions are rising at Grabbit Manor. Lord Grabbit won't buy his daughter a new dress for her engagement to the unsuitable wastrel Roger. Curt, the butler, hasn't been paid for months and Lord Grabbit suspects Cook of cooking the books. When the lights come on after a sudden blackout, a body is found - a problem for Inspector Foot (of the Yard)... the problem being that the corpse has been poisoned, strangled, stabbed and shot!
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RipplesAuthorPete Grocock
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Long one-act murder mystery (or short full-length play). Single set. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis A family meal is marred by the discovery of the body of a murdered woman in the hall trunk. The owners of the house don't know who she is or how she got there, but some of their guests know her well, and one is hiding further secrets.
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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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