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Customer Service by Avis & Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Characters are a variety of ages. Many could be played as either gender. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single (department store) set. Mildly surreal, bordering on farce, with lots of prop gags. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Just another day in a department store, where a pair of bewildered shop clerks encounter a clown, an accountant, a thief, some very colourful customers and a string of misplaced suitcases... |
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Death by Detective by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions). Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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Dummy Cabs by S. P. Franksson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four on-stage characters, seven live voices (which could, conceivably, be played by one male actor) plus a recorded message. |
Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun full-length comedy with likeable characters in a single taxi office setting. |
Synopsis | It's the 1990s and Dermy Cabs is under threat from a competitor. Beryl, the overworked switchboard operator, struggles with phone, radios and in-person customers whilst trying to keep the company's drivers under control, especially Bob, whose wife has kicked him out of the house. |
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Further Education by Pete Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Frank and Anne are written with Geordie accents. |
Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedic play (backed by a bit of recent British history) with a single (scruffy student flat) setting. |
Synopsis | In this very well observed play, set during the miners' strike in the 1980s, Essex University students, flat sharing Rachel, Emma and Claire invite Durham miner Frank to stay with them whilst he joins the picket line in the locality. The clash of working class and middle class values come to the fore during his stay and in amusing turns both sides learn from the other. |
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Getting It Right by Roger Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 124 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama, aimed at adult audiences, on a full stage set - with practical doors. |
Synopsis | Chris and Di have been together for some time, and are getting by - on Di's salon and Chris's small removals business, but they've never hosted both sets of parents. Di thinks now is the time. In fact, there's a lot she's thinking about that Chris hasn't considered... |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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The Great Mallard by Martin Clare |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (hotel reception and bedroom). |
Synopsis | Ginny arrives at The Great Mallard, a dilapidated hotel in a failing British seaside resort. Surprised to have any guests during the off-season, the manager reluctantly accommodates her, but soon finds himself faced with more unexpected guests, all requesting to stay in the same specific room. It rapidly becomes clear that ulterior motives are at play in this tongue-in-cheek thriller. |
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Grimm Tales - For Little Horrors by Peter Nuttall |
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Hair of the Dog by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!] |
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