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| All The Little Dickie Birds by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. Contains some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Richard Finchley is a bird enthusiast who fanatically monitors the garden birds on his computer, but when a new neighbour arrives next door with a pet cat the feathers begin to fly. The Finchleys have an adopted son and a teenage cleaner who get caught up in the chaos. |
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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| The Amazing America Roadtrip by Rob Roznowski |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. 4 main roles (2M, 2F) and 18 further roles designed to be split between 2 actors (1M, 1F). |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy adaptable to small or large casts. US English. |
| Synopsis | After a particularly challenging presidential election, a family decides they need to take a driving vacation across America. Along the way they meet a collection of colorful characters who restore their faith in the country. This surprisingly patriotic yet non-partisan comedy showcases the best of the American spirit. |
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| Amore by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Actors are intended to be doubled up across both acts. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act play, adapted from the plays that in turn inspired Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. (Plautus’ The Menaechmi and Siena Academy's The Deceived Ones) |
| Synopsis | When two sets of identical twins are separated, one of them weaves a sticky web of romance and deception in which the other becomes unwittingly entangled. In Act One, Deception, one of the twins is lost as a child and is discovered by his twin brother ten years later, leading a life of love and deceit in a far-off town.In Act Two, Disguise, a twin sister disguises herself as a boy to get the man she loves, only to find that when her identical twin brother shows up, he is mistaken for her. Each individual act is available separately. |
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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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| Angel of Happiness by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-act comedy, liberally adapted from Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’. |
| Synopsis | When Oliver had a nervous breakdown, Angelo was there to help him. But now that he’s Oliver’s guru, does Angelo really have Oliver’s best interests at heart? Why’s he trying to seduce Oliver’s wife, and break up his daughter’s romance? |
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| Any Colour But Red by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Fourteen on-stage characters (including a detective written male, but playable by either gender) and an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production took 50 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy whodunnit with adult themes. Two almost identical kitchen sets! |
| Synopsis | When Jim and Jani hold an Open Morning to sell their house, a mix-up in arrangements sends them some extremely unusual prospective buyers, some with bizarre expectations. Twenty-four hours later, the house has become a crime scene and the police need the help of the neighbours, Fred and Molly. |
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| Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. In order to be faithful to Jules Verne, most of the characters are written male. How you cast them is up to you! (For example, whilst it was not so in Fogg's day, the Reform Club is now open to women!) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for seventeen songs and nineteen pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length school musical based on Jules Verne's novel. By the nature of the story, there are a lot of locations, but these can be presented in as simple or complex a way as you please. |
| Synopsis | Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to travel around the World in Eighty days. Armed with only Passepartout (his trusty French manservant) and pursued by a detective, he sets out, venturing via Egypt, India (where he acquires a princess!), Japan and the USA. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Conductor's score and band parts (Clarinet/Alto Sax/Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard) for 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Richard Cowling
** Midi Files for the 36 songs and instrumentals from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. The files contain the band arrangements plus vocal lines.
** Backing Tracks for the 36 songs and musical pieces from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (The tracks are the orchestrated instrumentals, with additional instruments playing the vocal lines.)
** Vocal recordings of all the songs from Around the World in Eighty Days by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Richard Cowling and Leanne Cooper.)
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| Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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| As You Like It (60-minute abridgement) by Shakespeare abridged by Philip Schwadron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There are optional roles for non-speaking lords and attendants. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text pruned to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy pared down to around 60 minutes. A play, set in the Forest of Arden, for fans of romance, jesters, dukes, wrestlers, foresters, shepherds, exiles and cross-dressers.
There. Who does that leave out? |
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