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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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The Interview Protocol by Pat Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with two simple, waiting room and office, settings. |
Synopsis | A young man nervously waits to be called into the interview room. The odd atmosphere between the waiting candidates unnerves him further, and his experience during the interview is something he has never encountered before. |
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It's All Greek by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of short comedy plays featuring Ancient Greek heroes and god. A set of riffs on myths. |
Synopsis | Five funny plays, each with a cast of two or three, Locations include Troy, Mount Olympus, the skies and a couple of unexpected Ancient Greek offices. |
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Judicial Review of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus by Geoff Fulford |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with a single (courtroom) setting. |
Synopsis | A judicial review debates the death and resurrection of Jesus using attorneys and contemporary witnesses, some present at the crucifixion, along with interested parties. |
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Just Fifteen Minutes by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act historical drama with several simple scenes. |
Synopsis | Just fifteen minutes is how long it takes someone to die from strychnine poisoning. It's this method by which Doctor Thomas Cream disposed of his victims. Cream goes from fresh McGill graduate to a cornered criminal in this recounting of the life of the notorious 'Lambeth Poisoner', whose crimes stretched from Montreal to Chicago and London. |
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Kids in Lurve by Bill Siviter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Lots of flexibility for either doubling characters or splitting the narrator's role amongst several actors. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming play, delivering a rapid, modern and informal version of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. Multiple scenes, but little required by way of set or props. Set in the north-west midlands, but could easily be moved to your home town! |
Synopsis | Bianca is sweet and pretty. All the lads fancy her. But standing in the way, there's Bianca's acid-tongued sister, Kate, and who can tame Kate? Well, since there aren't many lads called Petruchio these days, the modern-day volunteer is Shane. The course of true love never did run smooth (but that's another story). |
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The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Very flexible casting. There is one narrator role, but this could be shared out. Equally, the chorus could be 'all the actors'. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A 40-page musical score is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short musical retelling of an English folk tale. (The music plays throughout, even though some of the narration is spoken rather than sung.) No real set requirements, but the ideal performance would put some effort into creating a fearsome worm! |
Synopsis | The tale of the wild worm of Wearside and its grisly end. It should be emphasised that 'worm' is used in its old sense of 'serpent' - so this is a story of knights fighting dragons. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** CD with backing track for the whole musical The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards. Plus simple rehearsal tracks for each individual section (accompaniment on piano with vocal line played on another instrument.) ** Complete recording of The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards including all songs and the spoken narration.
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Language Lessons (II) Asking the Time by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice - could easily be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] May be separated into short scenes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of scenes put together in one act, or may be divided for short pieces. Minimal or no set requirements. |
Synopsis | A second set of crazy scenes to help hopeless English persons gain a better degree of fluency, in a foreign tongue. This time Polly and Glott prepare the audience for asking the time in various countries and even outer space! |
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Laughter Lines by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults in middle age or older. Some of the women are intended to be played by men (in gossipy, unglamorous middle-aged drag). |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 18 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to ten minutes). Few set requirements (although one sketch takes place in and around a bed). There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
Synopsis | Sketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes. Most of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.) There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
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Lennon and Buddy by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on two (living room/backstage) sets. |
Synopsis | Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform at the London Palladium, and in Liverpool, John Lennon sees the performance on a friend’s TV set. He boasts that his band will surpass Buddy Holly. |
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