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Out For The Count by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy-farce, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Walter and Mabel are celebrating their ruby wedding. Unbeknown to the other, both arrange a surprise party. The twists and turns are exacerbated by the arrival of two amateur hypnotists who wreak further chaos. |
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Out Of Hours by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act, farce-like play. |
Synopsis | John Williams is relieved his wife has had to dash off to her mother's - because he has some work to do. He calls his secretary, even though it's outside work hours, to help him calibrate the new technologically advanced bed he's been given... |
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The Pagan Priests by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce with a single (church sacristy *) setting. * In other denominations, this may be a vestry. |
Synopsis | Father Benedict has blotted his copybook in the past and his only hope for a job is Bishop Langley whose plan to appoint him as parish priest at St. Thomas' is motivated by money. Housekeeper Mrs Humbley is about to be made redundant for the same earthly considerations. Sister Mary Joan throws a spanner in the works and when the press get involved things get really complex for the Bishop. |
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Penny Black by Rob Wellington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An action packed farce that takes us to 221B Baker St in 1898 and to a secret house just roundthe corner. |
Synopsis | The story of how Holmes Hardy, the postman, became Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective. It tells of how he managed to get the money to support his opium and violin habit without having to work, of how Dr Watson Hardy, Holmes's hapless brother, sex therapist and practitioner in the treatment of sexual deviancy, became his partner and how Maurice (Morrie) Hardy, the older, evil brother became Holmes’s arch enemy. The desperate search for a secret formula written on the back of a Penny Black stamp involves not only the Hardy boys but their dotty parents and the sinister Russian Misha Ivanovich, who all have secret pasts which unfold before us with increasing riotous action. |
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Perfect Duck by Paul Gisby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Two of the characters have brief non-speaking roles. All characters are adults. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length drama with a lot of comedy. Mainly one set, with an episode in another location (which could be created by lighting and props). A couple of unusual props! Contains swearing and mild adult themes. |
Synopsis | JJ and Bobby are trying to build up their hotel business. She's the New Age consultant, running life-changing courses with the help of Sam the beauty therapist. He's the chef, preparing the gourmet food and trying to breed the perfect duck. The trouble is, something keeps stealing the ducks, and the hotel guests are in for more than they bargained for - with the possible exception of Ivan, who is in danger of leaving with less than he brought... |
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Pleased to See the King by Adrian Cale |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are adults with a variety of ages (some need to be credibly the adult offspring of others!) |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Combination of Costume Drama and Farce. Single set (interior of a country inn in 1775). Simple props. |
Synopsis | There's excitement at the 'Kings Arms' when it is announced that the King is expected in the neighbourhood. Then the actors arrive - not so much strolling players as players on the run, not wishing to be recognised, so at first it is very convenient to be mistaken for the king. At least until the real king arrives. (And, since the King is George III, it's no surprise that it all gets a little mad.) |
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The Politics Of Bendy by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act political farce in a single setting. |
Synopsis | Godfrey was hoping Charles would hand him the leadership of the opposition, leaving him a dead cert for Prime Minister, but now Charles has decided to hang on and Godfrey's wife is looking more like Lady Macbeth. |
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Race to the Bottom by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast largely adults, but also a couple of students in their late teens. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act farce with set in a school headmaster's office. |
Synopsis | Schools are always tense when the Ofsted inspectors are in, but this time the Principal has even more to worry about - his own son is trying to convince teachers to take part in his fund raising scheme involving photocopied bottoms. |
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Reading Between The Lines by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. An academic, a gambler, a vicar, a housekeeper, a French lady... No stereotypes here, oh dear me, no. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farce. Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Professor Andrew Stokes, new owner of The Old Rectory Cottage, returns from a foreign study visit in time to help wife Rachel organise the village literary festival, based at Saint Fabian's church hall. Star attraction is to be famous romantic novelist, Lydia Bray. The success of the weekend's event is threatened by the arrival of Andrew's oldest friend, Reivers Fenn, professional gambler, lothario and all-round liability. The chances of Reivers failing to be an embarrassment recede as not one, but two, of the women from his past turn up in the village. While one would rather forget that she ever knew him, the other has chosen not to forget that he owes her a lot of money. |
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The Reunion by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy/farce in a single drawing room set. (Inevitably, this includes French windows.) |
Synopsis | In its heyday the now decayed Marton Vale Village Hall was the hub of the community and, as headquarters of the Marton Vale Youth Association, a Mecca for the young people of the area. Local worthy Lady Lucinda Somerton is looking to revive both hall and community by organising a reunion - for those with happy memories of the Youth Association stretching back decades. A generous benefactor will be guest of honour. But how will that benefactor be received by those who can remember how things were in days gone by? |
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