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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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| 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 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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Girls' Night by Louise Roche
Best Seller 2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] (including 14 songs) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped. |
| Synopsis | Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications. |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille
Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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| A Gladiator In The House by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy (reminiscent of a Restoration Comedy) with various settings in Ancient Rome designed to be created simply (even in the round). |
| Synopsis | Ancient Rome is brought to life as the love affair between escaped gladiator, Marcus, and Livia, daughter of high ranking citizen Gallus, develops despite the efforts of gladiator owner Proculus and the lecherous banker Carus. |
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| Goldilocks, Three Bears and the Detectives by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family show, structurally in two acts, but run-time on the boundary between one-act and full-length. (Could be expanded with songs at the discretion of the production.) |
| Synopsis | The Bears' cottage has been ransacked - porridge eaten, furniture wrecked, and someone looking a lot like Goldilocks fled the scene when the Bears came home. But is she really guilty? The detectives investigate. |
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| The Goodbridge Million by Sean Dooley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. One set, split between three distinct locations. |
| Synopsis | After years of discussing the same old issues, the Parish Council of the hamlet of Goodbridge is suddenly handed the amazing news that a foreign benefactor is giving the village one million pounds to be spent according to the villagers' wishes. The councillors organise a meeting to allow people to present their proposals for the use of the money, then hold a secret ballot. Unfortunately for the nursery extension, the sports hall and the new church organ, there is an outbreak of tactical voting and the proposal to host the world Scrabble championships wins by a landslide. But never mind all that - the important questions are: can Will ever pluck up enough courage to ask Persephone to marry him? and how will his school play turn out? |
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