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Play Safe by Paul A J Rudelhoff & Jane Hilliard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
Synopsis | All is not what it seems at the Fair Lawns home for retired entertainers. The combination to a safe has been hidden somewhere by one of the former residents, and two young criminals-in-training are in the house undercover to track it down. |
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Pleased to See the King by Adrian 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. [Estimated!] |
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 About by Sue 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. [Estimated!] |
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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Quizzers by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farce in a single (study) set. |
Synopsis | Just when Keith Smedley is looking forward to the pub quiz that he lives for, the arrival of daughter Alison’s boyfriend’s mother, Stella, throws him off his stride. Keith and Stella have a historical ‘connection’ Keith would rather gloss over, particularly when wife Lorna is around. Throw in womanising best friend Ross, highly-strung interior designer Binny, ex-con Rat and a misconception that Keith has arranged a contract killing and the quiz evening looks unlikely to go to plan. |
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Reading Between The Lines by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. An academic, a gambler, a vicar, a housekeeper, a French lady... No stereotypes here, oh dear me, no. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farce. Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Professor Andrew Stokes, new owner of The Old Rectory Cottage, returns from a foreign study visit in time to help wife Rachel organise the village literary festival, based at Saint Fabian's church hall. Star attraction is to be famous romantic novelist, Lydia Bray. The success of the weekend's event is threatened by the arrival of Andrew's oldest friend, Reivers Fenn, professional gambler, lothario and all-round liability. The chances of Reivers failing to be an embarrassment recede as not one, but two, of the women from his past turn up in the village. While one would rather forget that she ever knew him, the other has chosen not to forget that he owes her a lot of money. |
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The Reunion by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy/farce in a single drawing room set. (Inevitably, this includes French windows.) |
Synopsis | In its heyday the now decayed Marton Vale Village Hall was the hub of the community and, as headquarters of the Marton Vale Youth Association, a Mecca for the young people of the area. Local worthy Lady Lucinda Somerton is looking to revive both hall and community by organising a reunion - for those with happy memories of the Youth Association stretching back decades. A generous benefactor will be guest of honour. But how will that benefactor be received by those who can remember how things were in days gone by? |
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A Round Turn & 3 Half Hitches by Nick Hibberd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act farce - misunderstandings, unexpected revelation of secrets, sexual misconduct and all that - set on a cruise ship. (One main set, interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes.) |
Synopsis | Nicola and her friend Tara are on a cruise ahead of Nicola's son's wedding. But it turns out a very old flame of Nicola's (who may be her son's father) is also on the cruise. Worse, his daughter is about to marry Nicola's son! |
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The Second Friday Of The Month by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A farce in two short acts (which puts it on the boundary between a one-act and full-length play). Single (small flat *) set. Contains mild swearing and adult themes. * I mean it's set in a small flat, not that the set is small and flat. |
Synopsis | Dan has a somewhat clinical sexual relationship with a psychologist who lives in the flat above him. They meet every second friday of the month, but their routine is broken by the arrival of some of Dan's diverse acquaintances. A clever, funny play, exploring some rather unconventional relationships. |
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Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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The Sharp End by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length farce in four acts. Single drawing room set (time to bring out the French Windows again). |
Synopsis | The Hillcrest Estate is to host a lavish trade function. Lady Hillcrest isn't convinced that it's a good idea despite the efforts of event manager Matthew Sharp and his assistant, Elaine. Fortunately Lady Hillcrest has other things on her mind, principally son and heir Tarquin's continued inability to acquire a bride to carry on the family line. Personal stylist Juste Valadier is called in to turn Tarquin into a more attractive proposition. Also in attendance is a sinister Eastern European hit-man seeking out his victim and willing to eliminate anyone in his way. Add to the mix the Finneran family and blunt businessman, Norman Arbuthnot and a successful event seems a rather distant possibility... |
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