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Hair of the Dog by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!] |
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Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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Happiness by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, there is an opening voiceover from a priest (which, for casting purposes, is assumed to be arecording.) |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play. Is this a romantic comedy? Probably! It's well-plotted, with serious and comedic moments and plenty of scope for character acting. Single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The countdown to Philippa's marriage to Christopher is almost up, but they're just coming back from a funeral. The death of her beloved Aunt Susan is just the first event of many that makes Philippa reconsider her future plans for happiness. |
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Happy Campers by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters range in age from 15 to 60. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act comedy drama. Single outdoor set (a campsite with tents!) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A comedy with a bite to it, this tells the story of a family gathering in the Yorkshire countryside to scatter the ashes of a man with a dark history. There are revelations all round and an unexpected treasure hunt. As the tag line for one of the productions put it, The excitement is in tents. |
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Happy Christmas Shirley by Louise Roche |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters are adults, with a broad range of ages. The Auxiliary (who appears in two scenes) might double with Peggy. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play (and tear-jerker) about a family Christmas. Single set (divided, largely by lighting, into several playing areas, for which there are stage diagrams in the Producer's copy of the script). |
Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve and the outside of Shirley's house looks like the Blackpool Illuminations. Inside, everything is ready and Shirley is determined to have the perfect Christmas day. But will she be able to keep a lid on family feuds? Will grumpy Nan go too far this year? Will heavily pregnant daughter Donna give birth? And how on earth will Shirley react when her other daughter tells her she has invited a lonely old man to share their Christmas dinner? |
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Happy Families by David Allan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy with elements of farce as well as family drama. |
Synopsis | Two families are brought together by the engagement of their children. The future in-laws meet for the first time, and could not be more different - but two of them hold a secret past. |
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The Haunted Cabin by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense ghost story in two acts and a single set. |
Synopsis | When Emily, Joe and Danny stumble across the isolated cabin on Shantler's Peak all is not as it seems. Strange noises and sinister apparitions plague the stranded inhabitants, who desperately seek a rational explanation. Will they survive the storm until help arrives, or just become the new eternal residents of the haunted cabin? A sinister play with a twist that will fool your audience right to the end - one of the characters is a ghost and cannot be seen or heard by any of the others. He appears to be speaking to them, when in fact he is not. |
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A Haunted Haunting by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Two spirits, Mona and Edgar are bemused as to the manner of their deaths. Medium Mona uses her skills to summon up a host of oddball spirits to try to find the answer. Meanwhile a new family move into the house and many confusions ensue. |
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He Deserves It by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short-ish two act play - a comic melodrama. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | George Potter dreams of building the low-cost housing his father never finished, but he's long on dreams and short of cash. Will he get the money from mean old banker Bailey, or will his childhood friend Frank help him out? A play that plays with variations on the characters and themes of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. |
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He's Dead by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length murder thriller. |
Synopsis | Rose's horrific nightmares become reality when her friend Maria is fatally stabbed. As the plot twists and turns ulterior motives are gradually revealed. |
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