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A Girl Next Door by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very funny full-length farce set in three apartments in the same block. (So a single set, redressed for each scene.) |
Synopsis | Tom's trying to have a quiet morning, but his new neighbour on one side brings his marital suspicions, while the woman on the other side brings her mother and fake boyfriend, all followed by Tom's estranged wife and property damage. |
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The Goodbridge Million by Sean Dooley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. One set, split between three distinct locations. |
Synopsis | After years of discussing the same old issues, the Parish Council of the hamlet of Goodbridge is suddenly handed the amazing news that a foreign benefactor is giving the village one million pounds to be spent according to the villagers' wishes. The councillors organise a meeting to allow people to present their proposals for the use of the money, then hold a secret ballot. Unfortunately for the nursery extension, the sports hall and the new church organ, there is an outbreak of tactical voting and the proposal to host the world Scrabble championships wins by a landslide. But never mind all that - the important questions are: can Will ever pluck up enough courage to ask Persephone to marry him? and how will his school play turn out? |
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Play) by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic retelling of fairytales - many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props. |
Synopsis | Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways. |
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The Guest House by P. B. Stenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage roles plus an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single bedroom set. An episodic structure (because all the guests can't occupy the same bedroom at the same time.) |
Synopsis | Clara and Will have bought the Guest House at Number 13, a new business venture for them. They find that there is a lot of on-the-job learning to do - for example, they have to decide what to do with the stash of old twenty pound notes in the hidden wall safe, not to mention the peculiar behaviour of their guests. |
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Hair of the Dog by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!] |
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The Haunted Cabin by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense ghost story in two acts and a single set. |
Synopsis | When Emily, Joe and Danny stumble across the isolated cabin on Shantler's Peak all is not as it seems. Strange noises and sinister apparitions plague the stranded inhabitants, who desperately seek a rational explanation. Will they survive the storm until help arrives, or just become the new eternal residents of the haunted cabin? A sinister play with a twist that will fool your audience right to the end - one of the characters is a ghost and cannot be seen or heard by any of the others. He appears to be speaking to them, when in fact he is not. |
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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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His Shoes Were Far Too Tight by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The ages of the two characters vary considerably (and not sequentially!) during the play! |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play for two actors. A study of character and relationships. Contains some swearing. |
Synopsis | The English eccentric (artist, musician and writer of nonsense verse) Edward Lear takes a sentimental journey back through his relationship with his loyal Albanian servant Giorgis Kokalis. They recall their first meeting, their travels, arguments and understandings. |
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Home, Sweet Home by Adam Croft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts in a single living-room setting. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
Synopsis | Richard and wife Claire act as Samaritans as they give homeless Boz a bed for the night in their garage. Their act of kindness rebounds as Boz gradually makes himself at home and Claire is left with a life changing dilemma. |
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Hotel Mikado by S. P. Franksson Winner of the Alistair Hewitt Play Writing Competition 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One (female) character is a recorded voice only. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | Wendy and Kevin return to their honeymoon hotel room for their 10th anniversary. They discover her ex-husband is at the same resort with a friend. Coincidence? Not at all. Henry's a scorned and bitter man who still holds a huge candle for his ex-wife, and he means to win her back. |
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