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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play in three episodes. (Think of this as three acts!) |
| Synopsis | Three cases involving Inspector Whalley and the hapless PC Hitchcock. They try to catch the Battersea Batterer, the Wandsworth Weirdo, and solve the mystery of Hitchcock's breakdown. All with the help of a profiler and Doctor Boffin. |
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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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| The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
| Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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| Isaac and Ishmael by Christopher Kent |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful play for a small cast in a single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Adam is waiting for the reading of his father's will, but that won't take place until the attorney arrives and Adam's institutionalised brother David is brought to the house. The noises only Adam can hear are scaring him, as does the fear his brother's madness may be genetic... |
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| It's Business As Usual by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.) |
| Synopsis | Plover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary. |
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| It's Deja View... Again by The Stannington Scribbler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production run time was between 95 and 100 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play in a single set. (Mainly a living room set, with the option of separate areas at either side of the stage for two telephone operators.) |
| Synopsis | Peter has been tied up and robbed, as well as hit on the head. Getting justice is just as hard as getting the insurance money, and then he's robbed again, and accused of the robbery! Can the Neighbourhood Watch help catch the real crook? |
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| It's On, It's Off by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All adults. Range of ages. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tight, funny farce in two acts. Single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | It's two days before Tina Humphrey's wedding and her parents, Gerald and Daphne, are expecting their daughter's future mother-in-law for dinner. However, with infidelity, illegitimate children and a case of mistaken identity, all Daphne really wants to know is whether it's on or it's off! |
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| Jane Eyre by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 134 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length dramatic adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel |
| Synopsis | An adaption of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel, telling the story of Jane, who takes the position of governess of Mr Rochester's young French ward in 1846. |
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| The Japes at Jester's Reach by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very funny comedy with strong characters and various plot lines woven well together to a satisfactory resolution! Requires careful set design. |
| Synopsis | The annual Snorton Bennington Croquet Tournament is being held at Jester's Reach, home of Lord and Lady Digby-Slushing. When the local champion pulls out, a stand-in is required. However, due to an unfortunate incident with a policeman's helmet the tournament stand-in isn't who everyone thinks he is either. Chaos ensues as unexpected visitors arrive and attempts are made to rig the tournament and steal the trophy. |
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| Joe Briggs-Widower by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 170 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Single farmhouse kitchen set. |
| Synopsis | Joe Briggs, widowed five years previously, breeds pigs on a hill farm. He lives with his only daughter Kate, a single schoolteacher. His farm-worker is Vincent who is also unmarried and who has lived in a tied cottage since he was a boy. Joe's elder sister, the many times wed Gertrude, keeps the financial records. The pig industry is in a downturn and against Joe's wishes Gertrude employs Lesley Jardine, a business consultant for advice. This results in Liz Ryan co-owner of Ryan's Country Foods Ltd, coming to the farm. Having planned on living a quiet life, Joe is thrust into a world he doesn't understand. His business is unprofitable, he has a failed relationship and there are plans to construct a wind farm on his land. |
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