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| Contracts by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama focusing on political sleaze, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Hedley is a man on the edge. An MP only re-elected by the slimmest majority, he needs a juicy cabinet job to pay off the debts mounting due to his wife's shopping and his sons' public school. He soon discovers how far he'll go to escape the life he's been living. |
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| A Controlling Interest by D.S. Warner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single interior set (could easily be done as a 'black box' presentation). |
| Synopsis | Ryan brings his new girlfriend back to the house he shares with his university student friends, James and Charlotte, setting off a chain of events with, ultimately, tragic consequences. |
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| Coppers by Kate Stafford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four onstage characters and an offstage (male) voice. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act tale of brutal deceit in the world of politics, building to a satisfying twist. Two sets (office and pub) indicated by furniture. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | In 1984, government minister Christabel and police chief Neil grapple with the embarrassment of having rings run around them by a criminal gang, while journalist Suzy is sniffing out a scandal and attempting to bribe Christabel’s old flame. |
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| Cops and Robbers by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child (but it's comedy, so the age needs to be played, not necessarily actual). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set required. |
| Synopsis | Barry explains to his dad how the kids today play cops and robbers... |
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Copycat by Charles Dennison
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act thriller - a drama with a twist, in a single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | Chris seems to have ended up at Harriot's house because of an accident, but he has evil plans in mind. A visit from her neighbours isn't going to be enough to stop a notorious killer from claiming another victim. But who will the victim be? |
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| Corner Property by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written male. The character with the pack would be the easiest to change. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. Single set (with no requirements - could easily be played front-of-curtain. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Joe and Peter, two former soldiers, beg for change on a street corner and watch the world pass them by - whilst underneath, there's a power struggle going on. |
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| Corner's Last Case by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy whodunnit in two short acts. (In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play.) Three remarkably similar office sets. |
| Synopsis | The legendary, brilliant Inspector Corner is not only up against the dastardly Butcher of Baker Street but also has to contend with his superior the mysterious Superintendent Marsha Mallow. This jolly ripping yarn sees the Inspector solve more than just the murder of Sir Newell Post as he comes up against the Russian Mafia in the shape of the Sodov brothers (one of whom is female). |
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| Coronation Fever by Vince Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy play in two short acts. Single (village hall) set. |
| Synopsis | With the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second only a year away, the village of Wintercourse Frequent must prepare! The Vicar calls together some stalwarts of the village to plan for the big event over two meetings. |
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| A Corpse for Christmas by Angela Lanyon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length thriller in a single set. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve and the family are gathering, including maiden aunt Cilla who no-one is looking forward to seeing and tempers start to fray as soon as she arrives. A murder ensues... |
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| The Corruption of Patience Undercroft by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an off-stage voice (that could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern pastiche of a Victorian melodrama (the same ingredients, but playing-up the comedy, rather than the Victorian sentimentality). Designed for a black-box set. Could easily be played as part of a Music Hall evening. |
| Synopsis | During a village celebration for Queen Victoria's jubilee, sweet, innocent Patience Undercroft has ventured out to a barn, summoned by a note from an admirer. She is hoping that it comes from her childhood sweetheart, Victor Knightly. Little does she know that it is the wicked Squire Grimly Blackheart who lies in wait... |
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