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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Sebastian and Puck are written m but can be played f, with a name change for Sebastian and minor amendments to the text. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy for young actors, bringing a modern English version of the Shakespearean play to the stage. |
Synopsis | Preparations are under way for the high-profile wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride the Warrior Queen Hippolyta, but the wedding planner Sebastian finds that he has more problems with the guests than the happy couple... including a rift in the Underworld, in-fighting among the entertainers, and a mischievous sprite to contend with. |
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Mind Over Manor by Loretta Willoughby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are all adults. They are written as 3M, 7F, but one of the male characters could be switched to female with the change of a couple of lines. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern comedy play. Single set (reception room of large, old US house), simple props. Three acts. |
Synopsis | Jasmine and Chester arrive at Summer Meadows, a large out-of-town mansion, looking for the owner. What they meet is a collection of people who are, at the very least, eccentric. When Jasmine starts to question them fiercely, the residents start to question her motives - then Jasmine goes missing... |
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Miss Glossop Comes to Tea by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Character ages range from young adult to retired. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set (domestic living room). One-act play. |
Synopsis | Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits an old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty. |
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Moving With The Times by Jennifer Garthwright |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.) |
Synopsis | Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage. |
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Much Ado About Nothing [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing', with every word remaining Shakespeare's. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Don Pedro, prince of Aragon, comes sweeping into town - along with his wayward brother, Don John, who is bent on making mischief. He finds his opportunity when he seeks to spoil the romance between Claudio (one of the Prince's knights) and Hero, the daughter of their host. Meanwhile, Claudio and Hero try to kindle a romance between Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend Benedick, who everyone thinks made for each other - if they can ever get beyond their endless verbal sparring. |
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Mudboy and the Messkings by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Mom, the parent and the announcer are (obviously) written as adults, but there is no impediment to them being played by teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and two reprises are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A comedy play with music in one act. Three sets - representative rather than detailed, though the final scene does require a practical mud pit! |
Synopsis | Robby Robindale and his gang, the Messkings, are experts in getting everything - particularly themselves - muddy. However Robby's nemesis is at hand in the form of Lilly Lucas whose ambition is to take Robby to the school dance, whether he likes it or not. |
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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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Murder at the Theatre by Emma Bevan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters and an off-stage voice that might be recorded. The gender of five characters (written 4M, 1F) could be changed by changing names and pronouns. |
Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy murder mystery play. |
Synopsis | A director, his assistant, the stage manager and a range of actors are all rehearsing when a murder takes place. Bumbling Inspector Ambrose shows up just in time to start investigating before the theatre is shut off from the world by a snowstorm. Will the murderer strike again? |
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Murder in the Village Hall by Emma Bevan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single (village hall) setting. |
Synopsis | The parish council meeting is interrupted by first the local guides who borrow the table, and then the police, informing them of the death of the parish council chairman in unusual circumstances. A catalogue of disaster follows as the bumbling Inspector tries to solve the murder, but the murderer is still at large and on the rampage with an apparent grudge against the parish council. This comedy thriller follows the investigation real time. Can anyone work out who the killer is before it’s too late? Will the guides return the table? Will the rain ever stop and will the meeting ever be finished? |
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The Murder of Arthur Bennington by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery play. Country house setting. Stage divided into one central section and two raised wings. Two simple sets for the main section, static wings. |
Synopsis | Arthur Bennington, a vile and detestable man is murdered one stormy night. Detective Inspector Perry, with his rather peculiar methods, must solve the case. Why is Elle the maid always so nervous? Did Percy the gardener really see Reginald returning home at 7:00am? Is George really as stupid as he makes out? What's Ronald Shifty got to do with it all and who can make sense of their old Auntie Agnes? Can Perry answer all these before the killer strikes again? |
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Murdering the Mikado by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script, based on songs from The Mikado. The music covers five songs (for a variety of voices with keyboard accompaniment) plus an instrumental (scored for two keyboards). |
Style | Full-length play (set amongst the preparations and production of a pantomime) with songs adapted from the Mikado. |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous journalist gets his theatrical comeuppance in a desperately improvised performance of an Aladdin pantomime - based on Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado! Another hilarious romp with the Off-The-Wall Theatre Company (The fictional but all-too-familiar heroes of several Nigel Holloway plays). |
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