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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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Origins by Martin Sadler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single (hotel room) setting. Adult themes and language. |
Synopsis | Harry has booked a hotel room to rekindle his former relationship with Min, who has since married. Their idyll is frustrated as first Min’s married daughter Rosie arrives, accompanied by new love Harris. Hot on their heels come Min’s husband Geoffrey and Rosie’s husband Keith. |
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Oscar's Sale by Horry Parsons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Farce. Two acts in structure, but of one-act length. |
Synopsis | As Punch and Judy intrude, the staff meeting at Oscars Department Store soon descends into chaos as long standing inter departmental frictions come to the fore. These tensions are soon forgotten however when news comes of a take over of the store by a multi-national company which will mean the long serving, loyal staff's well established work routine and perks are to be seriously curtailed. The solution to their problems comes in a surprising final twist. |
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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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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Pagan Priests' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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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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Play Safe by Paul A J Rudelhoff & Jane Hilliard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
Synopsis | All is not what it seems at the Fair Lawns home for retired entertainers. The combination to a safe has been hidden somewhere by one of the former residents, and two young criminals-in-training are in the house undercover to track it down. |
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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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