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Digging A Hole by Geoff Rose-Michael
Winner of Madeline Boden New Writing Award at Woking Drama Festival ((October 2023) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All Luka's speeches are recorded, since all her stage appearances are as a corpse. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller in a single (livingroom) set. One-act in structure, but run-time on the boundary between full-length and one-act.
First published in 2022, revised 2024. |
| Synopsis | One night, Fi accidentally kills a stranger in her flat, who she believes to be a burglar, but who is in fact an acquaintance of her flatmate and ex-partner Ellie. They attempt to cover up what Fi has done by manufacturing evidence that their visitor was really a burglar. Then they discover the truth... |
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| Dracula by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. This has been written to be easily staged, by use of props, lighting and sound, rather than elaborate sets. |
| Synopsis | The classic gothic tale is authentically brought to life, as young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to a Transylvanian castle to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is planning to move to England. But he doesn't realise that the Count has a taste for blood... |
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| An Evening to Forget by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The 'Boss coming to dinner' trope is one that has been used for years, but this script succeeds in taking it in a new direction in spectacular fashion with elements of light comedy, farce and thriller. |
| Synopsis | Olivia is worried, because her boss is coming to dinner and it’s very short notice. And he’s bringing a companion. And it’s a very important dinner. But when things really go wrong, it’s not any of the issues she was imagining. |
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| The Great Mallard by Martin Clare |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (hotel reception and bedroom). |
| Synopsis | Ginny arrives at The Great Mallard, a dilapidated hotel in a failing British seaside resort. Surprised to have any guests during the off-season, the manager reluctantly accommodates her, but soon finds himself faced with more unexpected guests, all requesting to stay in the same specific room. It rapidly becomes clear that ulterior motives are at play in this tongue-in-cheek thriller. |
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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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| The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Version 2] by Matthew Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length Victorian thriller, with various settings and many short scenes. |
| Synopsis | A fast paced dramatisation of the Conan-Doyle favourite, moving quickly and effortlessly from Holmes' cerebral consideration of the case, to the perils awaiting him and Dr Watson, not to mention Sir Henry Baskerville on Dartmoor. |
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The House Amongst The Willows by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length thriller with a single set |
| Synopsis | Fletcher is taking his fiancée Sadie to stay with the parents of his previous wife. He hasn't really told her much about his last wife's death, and Sadie makes several startling discoveries before she learns the truth about everything. |
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| Hump Day by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (office) setting. |
| Synopsis | Unassuming accountant Barry is auditing the books at the inefficiently run Reynolds head office when he discovers that new recruit Andy plots to take over the firm. But Barry has nefarious ideas of his own. |
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| In the Midst of the Storm by David Ridler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. A wide range of ages amongst the characters from 'late teens' to over eighty. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, fun twist on the stately home murder mystery - in which there isn't a murder. Humour and a range of distinct characters. Simple full-stage sets interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes. |
| Synopsis | It's supposed to be a relaxing holiday in a stately home with a chance to meet the Lord and Lady, but there's a possible poisoning, blood and a knife in the kitchen, and a secret in the cellar. Luckily, there's also a police officer. |
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| The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
| Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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