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| Inspector Snow and the Elf-Inflicted Wounds by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are back on the case, hunting the killer of not one, but two Mall Santas. Before the killer can strike for a superstitiously crucial third time, Snow and Merryman must catch them! |
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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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| Interrogation by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act political drama set across three simple interrogation rooms. |
| Synopsis | Three different people are being interrogated at different points in time by different interrogators, all because of crimes related to their political beliefs. |
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| The Interview by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play. An unusually updated, piece of Dickens. |
| Synopsis | An excerpt from David Copperfield - except that a lot has changed since the nineteenth century. David takes his good friend Traddles to discuss with the Misses Spenlow the matter of his engagement to their niece, Dora. |
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| The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
| Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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| It's All Greek by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of short comedy plays featuring Ancient Greek heroes and god. A set of riffs on myths. |
| Synopsis | Five funny plays, each with a cast of two or three, Locations include Troy, Mount Olympus, the skies and a couple of unexpected Ancient Greek offices. |
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| It's Business As Usual by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.) |
| Synopsis | Plover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary. |
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| Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
| Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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| Knight in Shining Armour by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The dragon and the horse are nominally male, but they are, after all, a dragon and a horse (and the horse is made from two people), so casting aginst gender is the least of the production's problems. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch (a long sketch or a very short play!) with minimal set requirements (although it does require a rock and chains). |
| Synopsis | A not-so-heroic knight is on a quest, but when he finds a maiden to rescue, the prospect of going up against an actual fire-breathing dragon is a bit much for him. Luckily for her, there's another option. |
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| Knock, Knock, Who's There? by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voices of one female laughing and multiple children, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a living room setting. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | Yvonne is desperate for the council to arrange a transfer for her and husband Dennis, from their high rise flat in Barbara Castle Towers to a lovely maisonette with gnomes in the garden... Her case may be enhanced when a TV crew arrive to investigate poltergeist activity in the flat. |
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