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Look at the View by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun comedy thriller. A single set modified between the acts. |
Synopsis | Max and Fiona move into a beautiful urban apartment that seems too good to be true. When they find a hidden burner phone, each accuses the other of hiding a secret. But their estate agent was not who he seemed, and they’re drawn into a series of events no one could prepare for. |
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A Mug's Game by Sarah Reilly |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, posing question of inner versus outward beauty. Contains mild swearing and an Australian accent. |
Synopsis | Suzy is unhappy with her new life in the country and decides to host a dinner party. She invites her glamorous friend Alice whose reasons for recent plastic surgery splits the group. Her arrival with Suzy's husband causes cynical sister Jo to suspect foul play. As the wine flows, her usually quiet neighbour, Beth, to her husband's dismay, speaks her mind and there are shock announcements as innermost feelings are exposed. Add to this the new handsome neighbour moving in next door, there are comical scenes leading to life-changing results. |
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The Normandy Conquests by David Weir Constance Cox Award for best play (Sussex Playwrights) 2015 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A wistful full length comedy - some strong language. |
Synopsis | As a group of family and friends spend a weekend away in Normandy, past tensions come to the fore. Susan looks forward to seeing her lifelong unrequited crush Colin for the first time in 20 years, while trying not to murder her tedious husband Jeff. With her sister and niece, and Colin's libidinous brother and disapproving mum also in the Normandy farmhouse, the scene is set for tale of life, love and the ones that got away. |
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Out With The Old by Wendy Ash |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Tannoy is an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play with simple settings. |
Synopsis | Two very different couples are next to each other at a car boot sale. Frank and Trace have more kids than they can handle, Julia and Mark are selling the baby things they'll never need and two further characters bring other upheavals into the mix. Quite a roller-coaster of emotions, resulting in surprising friendships and varied support between them all during the day. |
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Outside the Box by JPS Yates Performance by Tarrystone Players won the John Rigg Award for Best Comedy and the South of England Building Society Award for Best Stage Presentation at the Maidenhead Drama Festival 2011. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Six on--stage actors plus three offstage voices appearing briefly at the start (so could be recordings). |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play for adults, satirising office life - where the office workers are nursery toys. Single set. Written in one act, but quite long. A cracking pace might get it down to one-act-play festival length. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The nursery toys are mostly happy with their lot in life - only Ragdoll feels unwanted, so it doesn't surprise her when bureaucratic Fairy Crackernuts arrives and announces they're having 'a re-shuffle'. What does surprise her is that Teddy is the who's been made redundant... |
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Prodigal Daughter by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, hard-hitting family drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | A happy family is shocked by the arrival of father Bradley's previously unknown daughter - Katrina. Doubts as to whether she really is his daughter, and Tyler and Lucy's half-sister, gradually force the family apart until the shocking truth is revealed. |
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Reasonable Doubt by A.D. Peters |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play in two short acts - courtroom drama and crime - the way the jury sees is, and the way it happened. |
Synopsis | A tense courtroom drama with the prosecutor battling a slick defence lawyer at the murder trial of social misfit Josephine Mason. The second act takes the form of a flashback portraying the murder of which she is accused. We are left with the dilemma of knowing jury's decision before we learn the identity of the murderer. We are then able to evaluate the justice of the verdict, wherein lies the final twist. |
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Right Move by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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The Second Friday Of The Month by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A farce in two short acts (which puts it on the boundary between a one-act and full-length play). Single (small flat *) set. Contains mild swearing and adult themes. * I mean it's set in a small flat, not that the set is small and flat. |
Synopsis | Dan has a somewhat clinical sexual relationship with a psychologist who lives in the flat above him. They meet every second friday of the month, but their routine is broken by the arrival of some of Dan's diverse acquaintances. A clever, funny play, exploring some rather unconventional relationships. |
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