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| Right on Cue by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Roles are written as 2 male, 2 female, but all could be played as either. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (police office) setting. |
| Synopsis | The Battersea Batterer is causing havoc for the understaffed local CID as he goes around the neighbourhood hitting people over the head with a billiard cue. The police are snookered at first but are assisted by a psychological profiler in solving the case. |
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| Saint Nicholas and the Three Purses of Gold by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Technically, there are no characters - that is to say, it could be sung by a soloist. In practice, the intention is for the singing to be shared between several narrators and a chorus whilst the story is mimed by actors. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a complete piano and vocal score. |
| Style | A sung story. (Technically, that makes it a Cantata, but don't let the fancy name put you off!) Does not require any set or props, but props could be used as part of a mime of the story. |
| Synopsis | Where does our modern Santa Claus come from? He's descended from legends of Saint Nicholas, the fourth century Bishop of Myra - legends such as this one! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
| Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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| Scene Six by Andrew McGuirk |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The 'director' is an offstage voice and could be doubled by 'David'. The characters appear in a flashback as their childhood selves. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character drama with plenty of acting challenges. Structured in two acts, but, at around 55 minutes, of one-act length. (Includes some swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Two old friends and a new acquaintance decide to put on a play, but the assigned parts, emotional attachments, and the ruthlessness of the director cause rifts between the three. |
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| School Survivor by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. As written, the characters are two TV show presenters and two (non-speaking) secondary school students. We don't think this should be a constraint on the ages of the actors. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dark comedy sketch in which the stresses of reality TV meet the stresses of the education system. |
| Synopsis | The latest TV reality show. Can the competing students survive the challenges? |
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| Scriptaholic by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. In the author's draft of the script, the 'New Member' is male and the 'Group Leader' female, but there doesn't seem to be any necessity for this! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. |
| Synopsis | When a new member joins Scriptaholic, a support group for script writers who have lost sight of the boundaries between fantasy and reality, even the group leader finds him too far gone for help. |
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| Scrooge Lives Next Door by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jolly Jim was having a merry Christmas, until some unwelcome spirits pay him a visit and spill some unpleasant beans. |
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| Second Thoughts by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (The max. and min. numbers depend on whether the production follows the author's intention and uses a quartet of four female singers to punctuate the action. There are also a few lines addressed to passers-by who might or might not appear on stage.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single minimalist set - a bus stop. Few props. A study of an attempted mid-life affair. |
| Synopsis | Harold is waiting at the appointed spot, a bus shelter, for a meeting with his old school friend Patti, and wondering if he's up to having an affair, if that's even what's on offer. |
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| Shakespeare Lite by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short historical play. |
| Synopsis | An Elizabethan narrator introduces three Saxon 'mechanicals' who discuss their lives and the state of their country in the aftermath of the Norman invasion. |
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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
| Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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