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| A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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| Legacy by Lee Stewart |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
| Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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| Life Goes On by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of 19 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 4 minutes to 9 minutes). Few set requirements. There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
| Synopsis | Sketches about life, love, work and cream cakes.
All of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.)
There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
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| Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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| Little Women [Full Length Play] by Louisa May Alcott ad. Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. 11 onstage characters and 3 offstage voices |
| Run Time | Around 156 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama, adapted from the novel of Louisa May Alcott, set in the 1860s, in a single composite set. |
| Synopsis | A faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, following a mother and her daughters during the American Civil War. With their father away in the war, the four sisters must support the household at the same time as they each deal with the transition to adulthood. |
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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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| The Long Road by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters cover a range of ages from young adults to retired. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and in the present day, with rapid changes implying minimal sets, but some large props (hospital bed) and some pyro effects. |
| Synopsis | For Alan, the memories of hospitalisation after World War II are more real than his current stay in hospital, to the distress of his family, but his flashbacks eventually explain the loss of his closest friendship. The play uses the unravelling of the mystery of a broken friendship to explore the nature of memory and its impact on behaviour. |
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| Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know by Jim and Bronwyn Jameson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama with multiple sets adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Set in the early 19th century, this is the gripping story of Lord Byron’s turbulent life and loves, told largely from the female perspective, and including Byron - in vivid language. |
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| Losing Count by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus a brief offstage voice, which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set. A balance of fun farcical comedy and satisfying character development. |
| Synopsis | Oli is the producer at a low-budget TV station attempting an ambitious live election night broadcast. But the show starts to go downhill when the guests don't show up, the host gets drunk, and a reporter picks a fight with a lager-lout. With so much happening, it can only be sabotage. |
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Madame Blavatsky Lives by Joan Greening
Production by Spotlight Theatre Company won Best Play, Best Actress and Best Director at Havering Drama Festival, 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four women with playing ages of 50 to 60. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sparkling comedy in two acts (and four seasons) for an all-female cast. Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Three lifelong friends, Pam who is unhappily married, Jane whose marriage appears to be perfect and their batty spinster friend Lily regularly meet for girlie nights in. All of their lives change dramatically over the course of a year after they meet psychic Maureen who takes on the persona of Madam Blavatsky. Has she really predicted these events? Is she genuinely second sighted as Lily believes or is she the charlatan Pam and Jane are convinced she is? The answers to these questions, and more, are to be found in this hilarious look at the lives of these women of a certain age. Their mirthful journey towards a happy ending is tempered with a tender comic treatment of what otherwise could be tragic events. |
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