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| A Brief Encounter with Murder by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Jones the Carpet is written female, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Absurd comedy. Single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | A restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher, the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man with the Big Hammer? |
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| The Brilliance in the Room by Phil Porter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 105. No chorus. An ensemble piece designed for a cast of 12 or more, each playing multiple roles. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length sweep of Dickensian vignettes, with an ensemble of actors playing multiple characters. No specific set, but props are manipulated to convey locations. |
| Synopsis | A dreamlike convergence of Dickens’ characters and situations swirl about the stage, in a celebration of the author’s works. |
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| Building Bridges by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character (the dog walker) could be an offstage voice! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length character comedy with an environmental theme. Single set - simple, give or take the boardwalk which is constructed on-stage during the show! Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's nerdy Clive's first time with The Ferrets - a group of environmental volunteers - and today they're building a boardwalk over some boggy ground. What will he make of officious Bob, strident Beryl and ASBO Mandy? And what's so special about Molly's culinary offerings? |
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| Butchers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production running time was between 95 and 105 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy whodunnit with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | John Cleaver has just changed his will when he is found apparently murdered. The new will demands certain unpalatable tasks from some, but not all, of the beneficiaries. Novice detective Bullock struggles with his investigation into the members of the dysfunctional Cleaver family. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
| Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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| Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
| Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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| The Cape and the Klan by Ted Ryan and Tin Penavic |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice only and could be doubled with another (male or female) role. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 13 points in the script, mostly at start of scenes, where music is cued. The Producer's script includes specifric suggestions for 6 of these and the rest are at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length drama based on a true historical story, with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | 1946. As the civil rights movement for desegregation is about to get underway, lone reporter Harry goes undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan. He realises that changing the hearts and minds of others will take the help of a powerful, famous individual, so brings his story to an old war buddy of his, the producer of the radio show The Adventures of Superman. Ultimately, the Man of Steel brings the fight against racism and bigotry to millions of listeners. |
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| The Capers at Cricketers' Copse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A tale of intrigue, and double cross as the Ladies of the village of Fritton-upon-Sewer decide to stage their own cricket match, when Fritton should be playing in the first round of the Brewster Cup. Meanwhile a diverse range of suspicious characters are trying to take control of the cricket ground. All this, and hidden treasure too... |
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| Cardigan Coast by Louise Bramley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | The world of reality TV sets its sights on the senior market, as the pilot of 'Cardigan Coast' kicks off. There are five housemates, all in their twilight years but determined to show the camera they’re up for anything. |
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| Casualty Chaos by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play which doesn't rely on traditional doctor gags for laughs, instead creating plausible but zany situations which work well in the established 'almost real' world. Single split-stage set. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy few days in the Accident and Emergency department - they're short of Doctors but long on impatient patients. People are plastered, the sole doctor is plagued by rats and can't finish his knitting, and the devastating fire just slows things down a little. |
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