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Trinity Road School Reunion by Dawn Cairns Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. As no year of anniversary is mentioned, the cast playing ex-pupils just need to be of similar age. The teachers' ages can vary. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length musical |
Synopsis | A class comes back together years after school has finished, for a 70s night at a local pub. Ne romances awaken, and old ones are remembered. Some have changed quite dramatically, but the old bully is still the same. It’s time for the friends to make a stand at last. |
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The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy (adapted Peter John Cooper) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.) |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set. |
Synopsis | Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result. |
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Trussed by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The ninth character is an offstage female voice. This could be recorded, but would be better played live as it is a phone interaction with an onstage character. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two act comedy with two domestic sets - one in each act - which are the mirror immage of each other! Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | As if being burgled wasn't bad enough, Graham can't get the police to come round, or his insurance adjustor to pay out on the claim. But is staging another burglary really the answer? It seems not, although with help from his wife and the neighbours, he does find the burglar. |
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The Ups And Downs Of Rise And Shine by Clive Carthew |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] Practical run-time should be much shorter! |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farce set in the foyer of a new office block. |
Synopsis | The brand-new Crown Building is scheduled to open tomorrow, but the lift is still erratic and unreliable. Can Michael, the office manager, really get it fixed in time, while still keeping the building's occupants happy? And if he can't keep them happy, can he keep them safe? There are two new arrivals acting extremely suspiciously... |
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Varadachary's Annotated Chess Masterpieces by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Characters include Gandhi, Tolstoy, Fidel Castro, Marcel DuChamp, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Napoleon! |
Run Time | Around 230 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | A cycle of 11 one-act plays, linked by the character of Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - who uses the chess games as allegories for discussions about, art, ethics, politics, love and revolution! |
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A Very Roman Family - 235 AD by Roger Hodge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The eight minor roles can be shared by two actors. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Bawdy Roman farce! Contains a tiny amount of mild swearing (and lots of innuendo). A single set is implied - the courtyard of a Roman home in 235 AD. Originally published in 2010, revised 2015 |
Synopsis | Titus Rambus is a senator, who intends to become emperor by means of assassination. He has chosen Formaggius Vastus to be the assassin in the mistaken belief that Formaggius, a seller of asses, has a brilliant army record. As if that were not bad enough for Formaggius, Emperor Severus has learned of the plot - but not the intended assassin - and he too engages Formaggius to bump-off his rival. Not only that, but Formaggius learns that after the deed the assassin will not survive for long. Can Formaggius save himself and his diverse family? |
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Volunteers by Hilary Mackelden Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. A variety of ages, with the principals at the older end. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play. Single charity shop set. Contains a few very mild swear-words. |
Synopsis | Brenda is running a charity shop, with the slightly addled Prue and the sight-impaired Denny. But there are changes in the charity and John Turk is keen on a new image - younger staff. Brenda has to cope with her customers, a community service offender and the new regime. |
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The W.I. Blues by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama - with plenty of comedy to lighten the darkness! |
Synopsis | Grace is hosting an unofficial WI meeting to discuss the threat to the local organisation by 'the wrong sort of people' in the village. Unfortunately, it turns out that her husband isn't just out for the evening - he's gone for good. |
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A Wake All Night by Mike Warrick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 142 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A spooky full length comedy with a single set. |
Synopsis | The enigmatic Sir Roger Laughton has died, and following his funeral, several select guests are invited to try and spend the night at his haunted mansion. But why these guests? There’s more than deception being practiced tonight. |
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The Wakefields at War by Tom Mather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play). |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family. |
Synopsis | The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War. |
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