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Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four by Bart Lovins |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Twenty-eight roles plus offstage voices, but designed to be played by a cast of 10 (one of whom plays several roles incluing a 12-year-old girl.) |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with the multitude of settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects. |
Synopsis | Two British officers of the Andaman Islands Penal Colony encounter the group of three Sikh natives and a British prisoner forming 'The Four' who have access to stolen treasure. Years later Holmes and Watson are set the seemingly impossible task of unravelling the final destination of the treasure. |
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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Play] by Dave Jeanes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is optional. The dwarves are all written male but have not been included in the count of definitely male characters. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play (with the option of music if a production wishes to add it!) This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience. |
Synopsis | The fairytale of the princess driven out by her wicked stepmother, finding refuge with a company of miners. |
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Soldjer by Pete Benson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Mixed-age cast, with the central character played at various ages. The chorus is flexible, but the author recommends five principals plus a minimum of 15 in the chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama. Structurally in two acts, but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length. No set as such, but requires some specific staging. |
Synopsis | Mike struggles against his contradictory upbringing - a father who encouraged him to question and learn about everything but faith - and finds his whole life affected. |
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Some People by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy thriller. Single (hotel lobby) set, made complicated by the presence of a functioning lift (or, at least, a functioning set of lift doors). Contains mild swearing (and eccentricity). |
Synopsis | Things are busy enough at the Lucky Star Hotel, what with the lift being almost as unpredictable as the guests and staff, but now there are two jewel thieves returning to claim the loot they buried years before... under the kitchen floor! |
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Spelled by Adrian Cale |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute comic murder mystery play in a single set. Structurally in two acts, but could be paired with a much shorter play to create a longer entertainment. |
Synopsis | Zelda is the head witch of a modern-day coven, but is despised by its members - she's plagiarised Florence's Big Book of Spells, turned Ethel's owl into vol-au-vents, and made Dora quack like a duck. When Zelda is found dead, the Council of Witches send an investigator to solve the case. |
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Spice Up Your Life by Sarah-May Simpson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Twenty roles (male and female) but written so that they might be played by the five principal characters. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The score for one original song is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script which also suggests the use of 3 other songs. |
Style | Play-with-music. Written for teenagers, but contains strong language. Single set (mainly a school dance studio, but lighting used to indicate changes to other unspecific locations). |
Synopsis | Five girls are preparing a Spice Girls-themed entry to a school talent show. But the problems going on in all their lives cause tensions within the group to be stretched. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Spiked by S. J. Bailey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus three voices which might be recordings. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play set in a shared house. Contains swearing and the sort of adult themes (or as near adult as students get) that you'd expect from the summary. |
Synopsis | Housemates Rosie and Joe have the usual student problems - a looming essay deadline, a useless property manager, and Joe's spoiled girlfriend spending too long in their shower. Oh, and there's also a notorious drug baron holding them hostage, and the police besieging the building. |
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StreetBox by Deanna Alisa Ableser |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Gender of characters could be altered to suit production. |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama for youth theatre with a simple split stage setting, in American English. |
Synopsis | A subtle examination of homelessness amongst teenagers, with an inspirational message delivered with a tender touch and dramatic staging. |
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