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| Being of Sound Mind by Andrew Hull |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. (One character is - deliberately - uncredited in the script.) |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Edward Goodchild has died, and the will is read. Penny and Stephen are hoping for cash. Rebecca wants the truth about her sister's death. Martin is surprised to be there, but to get a single penny, they must first survive a night in the house. |
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The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
| Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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| Death in Character by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play. |
| Synopsis | The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim. |
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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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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
| Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
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| Murder! Mystery! - and Suspenders? by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All characters are adults. Variety of ages. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic take on the classic whodunnit. Single box set with practical door and French window. |
| Synopsis | There's a body in the library - apparently strangled with a suspender belt (unless you're American, in which case he was strangled with a garter belt) - a mystery to be solved and lots of people acting suspiciously. All the ingredients of the classic whodunnit, including the pipe-smoking amateur detective - though in this case, she might well be one of the suspects! |
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| Romeo and Juliet Date Other People by Jon Jory |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy starting from Shakespeare and straying a good way. Simple to stage. Written in American English. |
| Synopsis | Romeo's wooing of Juliet fails when both run out of poetry, so they agree to take a break and see other people. Romeo's dates with Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and the Wicked Witch of the West don't go well, nor do Juliet's with Paris, Iago and Oberon. Maybe the star-cross'd lovers are the only ones right for each other. |
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| White Rock by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length thriller with one set comprising three simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Autocratic Sir James Bannerman is the long time head of the family publishing firm and brooks no argument from his fellow directors, two of whom are his adult children. Everyone at the office has their own compelling reasons to be rid of him and when he is murdered Inspector Hilliard has his work cut out to find the culprit. |
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| With Friends Like These... by Pat Baker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The setting is a school re-union, so whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be other actors milling-about, doing whatever it is people do at school re-unions. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery play. Single set (school hall with no specific features). Contains mild swearing. (Also contains murder.) |
| Synopsis | A bunch of old classmates meet at a school reunion. Classmates, but not necessarily friends. Everyone seems to hold a grudge against Carol, but whose thoughts have turned to murder? |
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