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| Whiz Kids by Geoff Motley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Cpmedy play for adults about writing for children. One act by length - a two act play if you count the number of acts! Lots of physical comedy. Single office set (with furniture changes during the play). Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Gareth, Eddie and Maggie write and draw 'Whiz Kids', an eccentric children's comic initiated by Colonel Cheviot. Now the Colonel has died, and his wife, Lady Hermione is not so indulgent. She installs a new editor and a new coffee machine to keep noses to the grindstone and out of the pub. How will the staff cope with the shock of the new? |
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| Wild Bill's Swan Song by Craig Sandeman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (with a serious edge). Multiple settings, but one basic set with minimal changes. |
| Synopsis | Wild Bill has had a brush with death, and knows he's got a choice - die happy or live miserable. In the time he has left, he has to re-form his stripping group for one last show, and mend the relationship with his daughter and son-in-law. |
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| The Windfall by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice only and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When an intruder drops dead in their Sudbury flat, Laura Barrett passes off the corpse as husband Neville and claims the life insurance, thereby solving their multiple financial problems. In return for a cut, neighbour Peter supplies a car so Neville can take refuge in Yorkshire while Laura deals with the sale of their flat. Long-suppressed feelings between Laura and Peter soon come to the surface, but all efforts to ‘cement their relationship’ seem doomed to end in frustration at the hands of the emergency services. |
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| Yard Sale by Michael Paul |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Two main characters plus six others who could be played by two people. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Mark and Julie are holding a yard sale, but having strangers rummaging through their possessions brings some darker thoughts and feelings to light, and it's not long before their marriage is at crisis point. |
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Zoo by Terry Adlam
Performance by Biggleswade Amateur Theatrical Society won three awards at Bedfordshire Drama Festival, 2011, & performance by Little Eyases won 'Best Comedy' at The 38th Wellington Drama Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Five characters appear on stage, with a further eleven as radio or telephone voices. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious one-act comedy. Single set. Contains a little swearing, a little physical violence and a penguin. |
| Synopsis | It's an important day for the zoo manager - financier Sir Norman is coming for an inspection, and nothing must go wrong. So it would be a bad time for the gibbons to hijack a car, the tractor to run into croc lake and the tiger to take up residence in the coffee shop. And don't ask about the penguin. |
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| Zum Speisen mit der Langewörtergesellschaft by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst it the characters are given masculine or feminine names (or titles, in the case of Herr Ober), it could be reassigned with the change of names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dinner with the Society for Long Words - comedy skit in German with English commentary!
Intended as a light piece for a school language class, but clear and funny enough to form part of a general sketch show. |
| Synopsis | It's a meeting of the German Society for Long Words in their favourite cafe. Can they keep the words shorter than the waiter's temper? Apparently not. |
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