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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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Dead RingerAuthorStuart Ardern
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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...
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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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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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Night CallAuthorArchie Wilson
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play. Single domestic set. Simple props. Contains mild swearing and sexual elements.
Synopsis Matthew's quiet night in is disturbed by a couple of strange visitors. The fearsome Scanlon seems very interested in Matthew's book collection while the voluptuous Lisa is paying more attention to Matthew himself. But what is it they are really after? A menacing short play with a comic twist.
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Ragtime MysteryAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the principal characters it would be possible to have a number of non-speaking 'extras'.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Three Scott Joplin rags suggested as musical accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short, simple detective story. Three scenes, but integrated by music whilst the set is dressed for the next scene.
Synopsis Gossip columnist Veronica Rivers gets a mysterious invitation to a party, where she recognises an infamous jewel thief - just before a diamond necklace goes missing. It's down to Charlie 'Ragtime' Jones the piano-playing detective to solve the mystery.
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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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Sherlock Holmes' Last CaseAuthorCharlie Cook
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act comedy play (single set).
Synopsis The fabulous Kalimari diamond has been stolen from a locked bag in a locked safe, and when Watson hands over the ransom, the receiver is murdered horribly! A brilliant Holmes pastiche with appropriate gags and a surprise ending.
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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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