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| Gold Cup Week by Peter Green |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play. |
| Synopsis | Suzanne and her three friends agree to provide lodgings in their houses for jockeys attending the Cheltenham race meeting. Their guests have a significant influence on the families' lives, particularly on Suzanne - who experiences a poignant life changing effect. |
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| Good King Richard by Ian Dixon Potter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length historical drama. (A lot of locations, but simple to stage, give or take the butt of malmsey.) |
| Synopsis | After the death of Edward IV, his brother Richard becomes Lord Protector and then King. Richard III is determined to be a good king, but his principles - out of place in the royal court - enable challengers including Henry Tudor to plot his downfall. A counterpoint to Shakespeare's Richard III (which was based on the testimony of Richard's greatest enemy), Good King Richard sets the historical record straight. |
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| The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
| 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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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| Greeting Cards by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with a single setting and some adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Greeting card artist Robbie has suffered a stroke and his room mate Max is struggling to care for him and encourage him to get back to work. Two women, Mandy and Max’s sister Gertie are the catalyst for life saving changes for both Robbie and Max. |
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| Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
| Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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| Happy Families by David Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with elements of farce as well as family drama. |
| Synopsis | Two families are brought together by the engagement of their children. The future in-laws meet for the first time, and could not be more different - but two of them hold a secret past. |
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| He's Dead by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length murder thriller. |
| Synopsis | Rose's horrific nightmares become reality when her friend Maria is fatally stabbed. As the plot twists and turns ulterior motives are gradually revealed. |
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| A Heart-Shaped Cushion by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The patients can be any age from about thirty-five to sixty-five. Beth and Tom should be about the same age. Doubling and trebling-up is possible with a minimum of one man and six women |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama following a patient's experience with breast cancer, through chemo and physiotherapy, to exiting the treatment. |
| Synopsis | Along the way we meet people dealing with similar experiences. |
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| Henry V Revisited by David Baldwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length revised version of the Shakespearean play. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's famous play about the battle of Agincourt is updated, and Chorus reveals and explains the historical facts. The essentials of the original play are covered and the 'St. Crispin's Day' speech is retained unaltered. |
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| Here I Sit All Alone, I Think I'll Play My Xylophone by Martin Alcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama, with a single (theatre dressing room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Once famous comedy duo Wild and Wooley have been relegated to dead end provincial panto. They are excited to learn that their new agent has negotiated a possible television show for them when their erstwhile, crooked agent turns up - to rain on their parade with secrets from the past. They deal with his blackmail in a surprisingly shocking way, after which they are able to come to terms with the past and go forward to a brighter future. |
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