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Here I Sit All Alone, I Think I'll Play My Xylophone by Martin Alcock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with a single (theatre dressing room) setting. |
Synopsis | Once famous comedy duo Wild and Wooley have been relegated to dead end provincial panto. They are excited to learn that their new agent has negotiated a possible television show for them when their erstwhile, crooked agent turns up - to rain on their parade with secrets from the past. They deal with his blackmail in a surprisingly shocking way, after which they are able to come to terms with the past and go forward to a brighter future. |
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The Horrific Case Of Mr Valdemar by Edgar Allen Poe - adapted Richard Layton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodramatic full-length play. Multiple settings, but one main set with minor locations playable front-of-curtain or picked-out by lighting. |
Synopsis | In this dramatization of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, the eerie atmosphere surrounding Mr Valdemar's death and the intervention of the questionable hypnotist Rufus is authentically and chillingly brought to life. |
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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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How Does Your Garden Grow? by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Funny full length British farce. Single set (hotel reception area). Contains mild swearing and intimations of nudity and adultery (obviously an adult theme). |
Synopsis | Banker Roger Crompton is hoping to celebrate his fiftieth birthday by consummating an adulterous affair with a colleague. Unfortunately, the hotel he's picked just happens to be the one his colleague has been threatening to shut down. In true dirty weekend tradition, they are booked in the name of Jones, but of course, they aren't the only Joneses staying in the hotel - there's Nathan Pond, an aging rock star, heading for a festival with his agent, but also hiding from a stalker. Mistaken identity abounds, not least when Roger assumes that the local policewoman is really a stripogram. |
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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 Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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In A Hole by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and wildly unusual full-length play in two sets - one on the inside, looking out, and the second in the garden. |
Synopsis | Woody Woodward is mildly interested in why his neighbour has dug a huge hole in the back garden, but when he involves his friend Benny in the mystery, things get serious. Is it a grave? A bunker? The answer leads to more questions. |
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In My Lady's Chamber by Giles Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Bedroom farce in the form of a medieval romp. Single (castle bedchamber) set. Contains adult goings on and the occasional French accent. |
Synopsis | While Lord William has been away, Lady Jane has been dallying with his Squire, but now his Lordship has returned and intends to relieve Her Ladyship of the chastity belt she is no longer wearing and cannot find. This is just the start of the troubles... |
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In the Midst of the Storm by David Ridler New |
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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