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| Where the Brass Bands Play by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Detective Sergeant Cross is written female, but could be male with minor adjustments to the text. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length farce. Single interior set (with inevitable French window and sundry places to hide). Warning - contains entendres, some of them twice. |
| Synopsis | Simeon Gandalf, one-time thespian, now theatrical agent, settles into Mrs Esme Golightly's Seaview Guest House, keen to develop the career of his young protégée, Louise Laverne. Despite Simeon's allegedly innocent intentions towards Louise, the last things he needs are the arrivals in quick succession of his long-estranged fifth wife, seeking a divorce and his long-term mistress, keen to be made into an honest woman. It's just as well that Simeon's solicitor is on hand to dig him out of the hole he is digging for himself. Also present, but wishing they weren't, are a hapless burglar and a member of the local constabulary. Will Mrs Golightly's no hanky-panky policy hold up and is there really a contract killer on Simeon's trail? |
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| Where There's A Will... by Alan Tibbles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length thriller in a single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Set in the 1950s English countryside this thriller starts with the Nesbitts and their spouses being called together unexpectedly by their widowed step mother Violet. They gather in the peaceful country home of wealthy Esmerelda Barton for whom Violet has been acting as companion. Old enmities and rivalries emerge and secrets are exposed. All is definitely not as it seems and death is in the air. All is eventually revealed in this cleverly-constructed thriller. |
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| White Rock by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length thriller with one set comprising three simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Autocratic Sir James Bannerman is the long time head of the family publishing firm and brooks no argument from his fellow directors, two of whom are his adult children. Everyone at the office has their own compelling reasons to be rid of him and when he is murdered Inspector Hilliard has his work cut out to find the culprit. |
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Who Did You Say You Were? by Giles Scott
"Best Original Play" 2013 HHDS Awards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The cast play characters who, at times, are playing other characters. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy mystery. Complex plot, but great fun! (Mad in a splendid sort of way.) Single interior set. (The production notes include suggestions as to how the ghost drifts through the walls!) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's supposed to be a murder mystery weekend at a guest house, but one of the guests is psychic and has discovered the ghost of a real murder victim. The others have trouble keeping straight who they are, and who everyone else is and what they're supposed to be doing. Then the murderers arrive... |
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| Will at the Tower by Pete Hartley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Five principals plus a chorus of singers. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs. |
| Style | Period drama. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They observe the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Windfall by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice only and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When an intruder drops dead in their Sudbury flat, Laura Barrett passes off the corpse as husband Neville and claims the life insurance, thereby solving their multiple financial problems. In return for a cut, neighbour Peter supplies a car so Neville can take refuge in Yorkshire while Laura deals with the sale of their flat. Long-suppressed feelings between Laura and Peter soon come to the surface, but all efforts to ‘cement their relationship’ seem doomed to end in frustration at the hands of the emergency services. |
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| Windy Hollow by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Twelve Principals plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Family show, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of panto). 'Windy Hollow' is a show for all the family and for companies of all abilities with lots of opportunities for adults and children. |
| Synopsis | A wonderfully enchanting tale of woodland folk who allow us humans a glimpse into their world. This is a special gift as humans in the shape of supermarket developers are intent on destroying their habitat with their plans for a new superstore. Will Enoki's magic potions and Puffball's fairy charms frustrate these evil humans or will the woodland folk need human assistance in the form of the beautiful Chanterelle? Even the villainous Stinkhorn and her inept stooges Blewitt and Blusher have to put aside their wicked mischief to join the fight against the humans so that everyone can live happily ever after. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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| Wolfgang by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are nine women of Indian origin and one of Canadian-Jewish extraction! |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in eleven scenes. A study of the character and relationships of Indian women of different ages and classes. |
| Synopsis | A grand old lady, Mrs Mira Rajkumar, lives alone and in the past, tyrannizing her two women servants, and imagining her dead dog, Wolfgang, to be still around. A chance reading of a book on Ovid convinces her that she would be able to bring back her dog from Hades, and she does, or does she? |
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| Worth A Fortune by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farcical comedy with a single (drawing room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Setting out to assure his aunt that he is living a sober and respectable life, so as to convince her to leave him a considerable fortune in her will, Timothy weaves an ever increasing web of deceit involving family, the maid, and the vicar! Ex- wife Lavinia's presence really doesn't help either... |
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