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| The Big Night IN by Richard Marsh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy, with adult themes and language, set in a living room. |
| Synopsis | Great pals Tony, Rob, Simon and Gary meet for another of their usual - nights out. They become dismayed when they realise that they are getting older, girlfriends are getting serious and marriage, kids, slippers, and mortgages beckon. But even staying IN is not as simple as it used to be. |
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| Bill by Janice Sampson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy structured in two act (but on the boundary between one-act and full-length in run-time). Contains swearing. Multiple settings, but with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A multi-strand story that introduces us to five separate characters in the first act, then draws all their tales together in the second: Bill with his knee-replacement, David mourning his lost mother, Audrey arrested for her Fancy Dress Brawl, Rita marrying again and Constance trying a new exercise routine. |
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| Births, Deaths and Marriages by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients in the second act. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in three acts (each in a different setting). |
| Synopsis | A family saga told through three comic episodes. Laughter turns into tension in all three plays as family frictions and heartaches unfold.
Each of the three components is also available separately:
Arrival
Oncology
Anniversary |
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| Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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| Blackmailing Butterflies by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Recommended 4 or more Chorus |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for songs (mainly from The Beggar's Opera) are supplied with Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A full length comedy play with music, set in a garden and a rehearsal room. |
| Synopsis | Tensions within a theatre company arise when a couple of mid-life crises unexpectedly drag past and present emotions into the sharp focus of an ambitious young blackmailer. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Blond by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but suitable for a teenage cast. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy comes with sheet music (piano and vocals) for 13 songs. |
| Style | Small-cast comedy musical, packed with manic zaniness. Few staging requirements, but some interesting sound effects (head struck by frying pan, that sort of thing). Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jackson Bligh isn't quite the brilliant detective he thinks he is, but he undertakes the job of safeguarding James Blond's amazing recipe from the dreaded Morticia De Bauch. She's in league with James' sister, and it'll take a miracle to save the world... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Bottoms Up! by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for 13 original songs plus Overture and Entr'act are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical comedy play set amongst the staff of a High School. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The disconsolate teachers of Neeson High have a new member of staff, whom the young male members absolutely fawn over. But following her to the school is her crime boss father and his two henchmen. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Box by Alan Tibbles |
| 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 seven human characters, there is a crucial role for Winnie the cat! |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy drama set in an English kitchen in the 1960s. Contains a modicum of swearing. |
| Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Parker want to move into a smaller house so the children will get their own places, and the kids wonder if they dare move out or whether the parents would miss them too much. Is the mysterious box Dad found in the garden the answer? Or is it just some old junk Grandad hid? |
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| A Bride In The Hand by Angela Lanyon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Widowed Kate is to marry George and daughter Vickie is doing her best to organise the wedding day, which is becoming more and more frenetic. Best man Eddie is variously mistaken for a delivery man, an electrician and Vickie’s fiancée - but his true identity turns out to be even more bizarre. |
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| A Brief Encounter with Murder by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Jones the Carpet is written female, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Absurd comedy. Single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | A restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher, the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man with the Big Hammer? |
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