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Murder! Mystery! - and Suspenders? by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All characters are adults. Variety of ages. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic take on the classic whodunnit. Single box set with practical door and French window. |
Synopsis | There's a body in the library - apparently strangled with a suspender belt (unless you're American, in which case he was strangled with a garter belt) - a mystery to be solved and lots of people acting suspiciously. All the ingredients of the classic whodunnit, including the pipe-smoking amateur detective - though in this case, she might well be one of the suspects! |
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Murdering the Truth by Rachael Jolley and David Weir |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length spoof comedy murder thriller with a single (newsroom) setting. |
Synopsis | The boorish editor of the local newspaper gives every reason for someone to bump him off. When he is found stabbed, everyone is suspect. Inspector Watson of the Yard, ably assisted by elderly sleuth Miss Parmel, is able to see through the half-truths and convoluted alibis to discover the whole shocking story. |
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My Angel by Tony Domaille |
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 | A full-length romantic comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | Mark's life has become intolerable following bankruptcy, marriage breakdown, ill health and the shame of having been caught shoplifting. He is resolved to end it all, though his apprentice guardian angel stops him and helps him put his life back together. But when everything is fixed, and Mark goes back to his wife, is it the kind of eternity Mark and his angel would choose? |
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Name That Murder by Troy Shearer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act, single-set farce. |
Synopsis | All the classic elements of a farce, with lovers, spurned husbands, misunderstandings, discoveries and deceptions. Plus, of course, a huge number of entrances and exits! (All this and an errant toupee.) |
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Naughties At The Nineteenth Hole by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 103 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, good old-fashioned farce. |
Synopsis | In rural 1950s England, MI5 agents are investigating various nefarious deeds at Bristle Upon Rise Golf Club. Harry Toxin wants to build an extension to his holiday camp but faces opposition from the environmentalist Toads In Trouble brigade. Interwoven are the members’ extramarital goings on, and a diamond smuggling ring. |
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Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's script includes suggestions for pieces of music to be played at particular points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
Synopsis | After Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, undertake the task of publishing all of his scripts, and the First Folio is born. Four centuries later in 2001, the First Folio is auctioned at Christies. |
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The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act historical play |
Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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Never Mind the Bonnets by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Fourteen characters, playable by a cast of 10 (plus a brief cameo from the stage crew, playing a conga of servants). |
Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes lyrics to three (mercifully short) songs from Lord Meddlesome (who fancies himself as a shantyman). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Engagingly comic parody of Jane Austen's 19th century romances. Nominally three locations, but these are all interiors and can be created with furniture and stage dressing. |
Synopsis | In the Regency Era, a family of young women and their mother are forced to accept a small property on a relative's estate when the man of the family dies. Naturally, they must be thrown into the path of suitable husbands ... |
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Never Mind The Butler by Lou Treleaven Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy set in a stately home. With some robust language. |
Synopsis | The stately home of the Uppington family is in peril once again, thanks to his Lordship's gambling. To save it from falling into the hands of Big Bob - The Cheat - McBruiser, desperate measures must be considered... Perhaps even murder! |
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The Normandy Conquests by David Weir Constance Cox Award for best play (Sussex Playwrights) 2015 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A wistful full length comedy - some strong language. |
Synopsis | As a group of family and friends spend a weekend away in Normandy, past tensions come to the fore. Susan looks forward to seeing her lifelong unrequited crush Colin for the first time in 20 years, while trying not to murder her tedious husband Jeff. With her sister and niece, and Colin's libidinous brother and disapproving mum also in the Normandy farmhouse, the scene is set for tale of life, love and the ones that got away. |
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