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Frequently Asked Questions by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single set. A provocative drama with adult content. |
Synopsis | Eminent astronomer Professor Smith has long had a theory about the nature of the universe, and whether our position in it is really unique. His lectures and writings have thus far been largely ignored but an enigmatic visitor to his home intriguingly turns everything upon its head. |
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From Here to Maternity by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight principal characters and a slew of minor roles. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A witty and fast-paced full-length comedy with lots of fun characters. The makings of a very good evening's entertainment. |
Synopsis | Obstetrician Clare Mason and her colleague Cathy are on their way to a conference in Moscow, when they find themselves stuck in the dilapidated ex-Soviet state of Bolonia and recruited to supervise the pregnant wife of the President. Meanwhile, President Driblova is under UN pressure to hold an election, but plots to make it anything but democratic. |
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The Fumblings at Friar's Bottom by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy, verging on light farce |
Synopsis | Friar's Bottom is a decaying English Boarding School in the 1950s. Most of the staff are looking to escape - not necessarily with their current partners. Full of double dealings with a shady bookmaker and an American property developer. |
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Further Education by Pete Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Frank and Anne are written with Geordie accents. |
Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedic play (backed by a bit of recent British history) with a single (scruffy student flat) setting. |
Synopsis | In this very well observed play, set during the miners' strike in the 1980s, Essex University students, flat sharing Rachel, Emma and Claire invite Durham miner Frank to stay with them whilst he joins the picket line in the locality. The clash of working class and middle class values come to the fore during his stay and in amusing turns both sides learn from the other. |
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The Future by Andrew Harrison Listed by The Independent as one of the 'Top Five Plays', 2007 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play, single interior set, exploring the merits of living for ever. |
Synopsis | Three couples meet together over the course of twelve years. During those years a drug is perfected that prevents ageing. The advantages and disadvantages are debated and displayed by the friends at each encounter. |
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The Game of Love by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act drama, set in the 1960s. Single interior set. Adult subject matter treated seriously. |
Synopsis | 'Working girl', Carol and her client Tony embark on an emotional journey of personal discovery and revelation between these two very different individuals. |
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Getting It Right by Roger Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 124 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama, aimed at adult audiences, on a full stage set - with practical doors. |
Synopsis | Chris and Di have been together for some time, and are getting by - on Di's salon and Chris's small removals business, but they've never hosted both sets of parents. Di thinks now is the time. In fact, there's a lot she's thinking about that Chris hasn't considered... |
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Ghosts at the Grange by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comic whodunnit. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | Lancelot and Guinevere are dead, and have been for a hundred years. They haunt Arthur's house, and are the only witnesses to his murder. But how can they let his family know who committed the foul deed? |
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The Ghosts of Halfway House by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A halloween play (or a play for whenever else you want a ghost story). Single set. Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Simon and Daphne are looking around an old house, with Simon's mother in tow. They aren't convinced it's the right place for them, and Mr Godley the estate agent is unusual. They're in for quite an evening before they find out more than they expected about the house and its history. |
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The Ghosts of Marvin Grange by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] (Dependent on how much the actors ham up the death scene!) |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
Synopsis | Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely moor to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad... |
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