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In A Hole by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and wildly unusual full-length play in two sets - one on the inside, looking out, and the second in the garden. |
Synopsis | Woody Woodward is mildly interested in why his neighbour has dug a huge hole in the back garden, but when he involves his friend Benny in the mystery, things get serious. Is it a grave? A bunker? The answer leads to more questions. |
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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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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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Legacy by Lee Stewart |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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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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Mark Twain and Livy by Joseph P. Ritz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Poignant full-length biographical play. Contains mild swearing (from an era when it was probably called 'cussing'). |
Synopsis | An elderly Mark Twain escorts us through the early days of his marriage to Livy Langdon, from their first night in their new house, through to the day they left it with their first child. An emotional and insightful play about two strong-willed characters. |
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Origins by Martin Sadler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single (hotel room) setting. Adult themes and language. |
Synopsis | Harry has booked a hotel room to rekindle his former relationship with Min, who has since married. Their idyll is frustrated as first Min’s married daughter Rosie arrives, accompanied by new love Harris. Hot on their heels come Min’s husband Geoffrey and Rosie’s husband Keith. |
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Orville Station by Frank J. Avella |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One offstage role for voice announcement. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with strong language, set in a railway station in New Jersey, U.S.A. |
Synopsis | Lenny is twenty five, a screenwriter wannabe, living in a small town in New Jersey. He has completed one script that was met with universal rejection and has allowed fear and his family to rule his life. Lenny usually hangs out with his two best friends from High School often catching the train to NYC, but this place has the notoriety of most train deaths per year, usually suicides. Here Chizzy meets up and befriends Lenny, triggering a major re-think for Lenny's life-purpose. |
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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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