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| Nothing Old Nothing New by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce with a single-setting - set over two acts, though could be performed in one. Some strong language |
| Synopsis | Valerie is dead but unable to leave her house, now occupied by her son and his wife Zoe - the cause of her fury and her enforced sit-in. Her grandson arrives to find his mother making plans for his sister’s wedding. When the bride and groom and his father arrive for the weekend along with the groom’s psychic mother, scandalous revelations lead to the wedding plans being blown apart and a ruined weekend, although chaotic events lead to Valerie’s happy release. |
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| Oh My Lord! by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A Vicar is astounded when an adult daughter he never knew he had arrives at the vicarage. The problem is further compounded when he discovers that she is a page three model and the Bishop is due anytime. More chaos ensues as the mother of the girl turns up. |
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| One Thing After Another by Steve Beeton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with an 80s setting. |
| Synopsis | When Bert and Eric dig up an old box on the allotment, they hope it contains treasure that will change their lives forever. Changes ARE coming, but the whole family is in for a bunch of surprises. |
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| The Psychotherapist In Spite Of Himself by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comical farce in one act and one (simple, domestic) set. |
| Synopsis | Ronald wants to marry Janey, but he thinks she's worried about his acting career. He poses as a psychotherapist to see if he can convince her that he's a good actor - and ends up taking on her entire family's emotional problems in one very busy day. |
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| A Round Turn & 3 Half Hitches by Nick Hibberd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act farce - misunderstandings, unexpected revelation of secrets, sexual misconduct and all that - set on a cruise ship. (One main set, interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes.) |
| Synopsis | Nicola and her friend Tara are on a cruise ahead of Nicola's son's wedding. But it turns out a very old flame of Nicola's (who may be her son's father) is also on the cruise. Worse, his daughter is about to marry Nicola's son! |
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| A Very Roman Family - 235 AD by Roger Hodge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The eight minor roles can be shared by two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Bawdy Roman farce! Contains a tiny amount of mild swearing (and lots of innuendo). A single set is implied - the courtyard of a Roman home in 235 AD.
Originally published in 2010, revised 2015 |
| Synopsis | Titus Rambus is a senator, who intends to become emperor by means of assassination. He has chosen Formaggius Vastus to be the assassin in the mistaken belief that Formaggius, a seller of asses, has a brilliant army record. As if that were not bad enough for Formaggius, Emperor Severus has learned of the plot - but not the intended assassin - and he too engages Formaggius to bump-off his rival. Not only that, but Formaggius learns that after the deed the assassin will not survive for long. Can Formaggius save himself and his diverse family? |
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| A Wake All Night by Mike Warrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 142 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spooky full length comedy with a single set. |
| Synopsis | The enigmatic Sir Roger Laughton has died, and following his funeral, several select guests are invited to try and spend the night at his haunted mansion. But why these guests? There’s more than deception being practiced tonight. |
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| Worth A Fortune by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farcical comedy with a single (drawing room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Setting out to assure his aunt that he is living a sober and respectable life, so as to convince her to leave him a considerable fortune in her will, Timothy weaves an ever increasing web of deceit involving family, the maid, and the vicar! Ex- wife Lavinia's presence really doesn't help either... |
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