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The Mr Misty Mystery by Martin Clare Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy, set mainly in the living room of a cheap flat. |
Synopsis | Abbey's brainwave intended to help her and flatmate Jess out of their financial difficulties becomes more and more complex. Her carefully planned art heist seems foolproof until accomplices Suzy and Eva become involved, as does the local police chief with surprising results. |
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Mrs Adapta Iago's Knitting Circle by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama with a single (living room) setting. Containing strong adult language. |
Synopsis | The knitting circle has been meeting in the front room of Mrs Adapta Iago's bungalow every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the past forty years. But everything is not as it seems - there's conspiracy in the air. What is the project they've been working on all that time? Why are the knitting circle members all intellectual women graduates from one of Oxford's top colleges? What is the secret they want to keep from Michael, the bus driver? What actually did happen to Magda? What is the solution to the four colour problem? And what happened to Connie's rash? This darkly comic tale is as full of twists and turns as a ball of wool. |
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A Mug's Game by Sarah Reilly |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, posing question of inner versus outward beauty. Contains mild swearing and an Australian accent. |
Synopsis | Suzy is unhappy with her new life in the country and decides to host a dinner party. She invites her glamorous friend Alice whose reasons for recent plastic surgery splits the group. Her arrival with Suzy's husband causes cynical sister Jo to suspect foul play. As the wine flows, her usually quiet neighbour, Beth, to her husband's dismay, speaks her mind and there are shock announcements as innermost feelings are exposed. Add to this the new handsome neighbour moving in next door, there are comical scenes leading to life-changing results. |
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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
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Murder at Ten Twenty by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length murder mystery thriller with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Wealthy entrepreneur and crossword enthusiast Abel is convinced that one of his children is planning to murder him, and hires a private detective to help catch the killer. But it doesn’t go to plan, and Detective Inspector West must uncover the truth. |
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Murder at the Murder Mystery Party by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy thriller in two short acts and one (dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Richard and Miranda's stormy marriage might reach some semblance of stability during a murder mystery party for their friends. Unfortunately tensions abound at the party and someone is actually murdered. |
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Murder at the Theatre by Emma Bevan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters and an off-stage voice that might be recorded. The gender of five characters (written 4M, 1F) could be changed by changing names and pronouns. |
Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy murder mystery play. |
Synopsis | A director, his assistant, the stage manager and a range of actors are all rehearsing when a murder takes place. Bumbling Inspector Ambrose shows up just in time to start investigating before the theatre is shut off from the world by a snowstorm. Will the murderer strike again? |
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Murder in Check by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play encompassing comedy, a who-dunnit, and some farce. A single, country house lounge set. |
Synopsis | When Harriet Downey's husband heads off to a Pacific island, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she looks for ways of raising funds to keep the family home, Downey Grange, up and running. Harriet's pet project is a chess weekend, bringing together enthusiasts who had only previously played each other online. As one of these enthusiasts is DCI Gareth Trench, enjoying some well-earned leave, it seems likely that some foul deed is in the offing. |
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Murder in the Village Hall by Emma Bevan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single (village hall) setting. |
Synopsis | The parish council meeting is interrupted by first the local guides who borrow the table, and then the police, informing them of the death of the parish council chairman in unusual circumstances. A catalogue of disaster follows as the bumbling Inspector tries to solve the murder, but the murderer is still at large and on the rampage with an apparent grudge against the parish council. This comedy thriller follows the investigation real time. Can anyone work out who the killer is before it’s too late? Will the guides return the table? Will the rain ever stop and will the meeting ever be finished? |
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Murder in Writing by Ian McCutcheon |
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 in a single living room set. |
Synopsis | A new executive producer has taken over TV detective show Quest for Justice, and he’s gathered all the writers at his country estate with an ultimatum – present him some exciting new plots or lose their jobs. But soon their weekend takes a surprising turn and the writers have a real murder to solve. |
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