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According To Rumour by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Identical (f) twins do not appear onstage together, intended doubling. One offstage megaphone voice could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A classic full length farce, staged in three acts, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Carter can't remember exactly what happened last night, but the naked woman is the last person he wants his Mum to find in his flat. And there's the puzzling matter of the bag of money in his fridge... It's a fine tangle to be mixed up in! |
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| Beware of the Agapanthus by Robert Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and an offstage male voice (called Dave). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a well crafted comedy with a gentle start which gathers pace as the chaotic situation develops. Contains swearing |
| Synopsis | The credit crunch has not been kind to ex-investment banker James who has not only lost his job but also his investments along with his gold digger wife Geraldine. His Father has died and left him, and spinster Sister Peggy, a large house in a village in rural Ireland where he decides to make a new life for himself. The barbecue party he has arranged to get to know his neighbours descends into chaos with a series of unexpected arrivals and equally unexpected revelations. |
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| The Fall and Rise of Gordon Grimshaw by Sandy Truman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A consistently funny farce with a variety of storylines that all come together satisfyingly. |
| Synopsis | Gordon fears that downsizing to Finchurch-on-Sea is the end of his life, with no job, no bowls club, and wife Marion putting him on a strict diet. But he hasn't reckoned on their bizarre new neighbours, kamikaze seagulls, brushes with the law, half-marathons, and getting reeled into amateur dramatics! |
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Get Staffed by Frank Gibbons
Cyril V Hines Trophy (Outstanding Actress) awarded to Stella Hutchinson playing Gaynor in the Droylsden Little Theatre's production, GMDF one-act festival, 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters (with playing ages of 18 to 25) and an offstage Australian female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comical farce. Single (hotel reception) set. |
| Synopsis | It's opening day for the newest Buzz Hotel, but things are not going well. Their first diners have come down with suspected food poisoning, and their only room booking is probably a hoax - surely it's not the real Kylie Minogue? |
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| Jane Eyre - A One Act, Musical Farce by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters is a dog. (This is a speaking role, although most of the words are Ruff.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for four songs and three instrumentals are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Eyre on a G-string. A musical comedy treatment that follows Charlotte Brontë's story accurately (within the constraints of reducing 38 chapters to a single act). |
| Synopsis | The classic Brontë tale given a comic twist, reduced to one act and set to music! Unlike any other Eyre you've seen! |
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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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| Last Séance by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A slick farce with a single domestic set. (Nominally in the USA, but could work in any location.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A family-operated séance scam is laid out before us. Attempts to conceal the swindle lead to a number of surprising twists amid frenetic action. The final startling twist of the play reveals to us - and the family - why this must be the last séance. |
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| Much Ado About W... by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short panto-like, adult-themed farce. |
| Synopsis | Quickfire gags, mistaken identities and outlandish new fashion designs confuse the King into believing his unmarried daughter, Princess Grace is pregnant. Is effeminate fashion designer Sir Pryze at the bottom of this? And what has assistant Watt been up to? |
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Old Boilers by Adrian Cale
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set (hotel foyer). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | When four women of a certain age decide to celebrate divorce in style, they hit upon the idea of a Hen Party in Blackpool - a chance to get away from it all and let their hair down. Except what happens when a face from the past looms along the Prom? And what if that face is the last one you want to see, this side of the Irish Sea... |
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