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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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The Long Game by Julie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Thriller, spread over a long timescale, but in a single set. |
Synopsis | Marina seems very happy with the whirlwind romance and marriage to the much older Lawrence, but then she falls ill and her friends are concerned. Is Lawrence trying to drive them away? Is his stepson right about the death of his last wife? And ultimately, who is being conned by who? |
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Murder at Ten Twenty by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length murder mystery thriller with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Wealthy entrepreneur and crossword enthusiast Abel is convinced that one of his children is planning to murder him, and hires a private detective to help catch the killer. But it doesn’t go to plan, and Detective Inspector West must uncover the truth. |
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Murder at the Murder Mystery Party by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy thriller in two short acts and one (dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Richard and Miranda's stormy marriage might reach some semblance of stability during a murder mystery party for their friends. Unfortunately tensions abound at the party and someone is actually murdered. |
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Murder in the Village Hall by Emma Bevan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single (village hall) setting. |
Synopsis | The parish council meeting is interrupted by first the local guides who borrow the table, and then the police, informing them of the death of the parish council chairman in unusual circumstances. A catalogue of disaster follows as the bumbling Inspector tries to solve the murder, but the murderer is still at large and on the rampage with an apparent grudge against the parish council. This comedy thriller follows the investigation real time. Can anyone work out who the killer is before it’s too late? Will the guides return the table? Will the rain ever stop and will the meeting ever be finished? |
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Murder in Writing by Ian McCutcheon |
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 in a single living room set. |
Synopsis | A new executive producer has taken over TV detective show Quest for Justice, and he’s gathered all the writers at his country estate with an ultimatum – present him some exciting new plots or lose their jobs. But soon their weekend takes a surprising turn and the writers have a real murder to solve. |
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Obvious Guilt by Ethan Bortman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Nigel is a smart man: a Psychiatrist, no less. But his wife has gone missing and her mother is determined to involve the police. As time goes by, things look blacker for Nigel, but he protests his innocence to the last. |
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Pawn by Brian Marchbank |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hour, 2 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Character comedy structured as a thriller. Single pawn shop setting. On the boundary between a full-length and a one-act play. |
Synopsis | The robbery of a Manchester pawn shop goes wrong and becomes a hostage situation, trapped together the hostages and hostage takers realise there is history between them, the resulting friction requires the novice police negotiator to deal with both volatile groups to resolve the situation. |
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Person Or Persons Unknown by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Detective Sergeant French is written male but could probably be played female. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length thriller with a single living-room setting. |
Synopsis | Robert's wife has been brutally murdered but the police have no clues as to the perpetrator, but there seems to have been some kind of love triangle involving a beautiful young actress and an unstable neighbour. |
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Read All About It by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned... |
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