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| Towser's Table by Pete Benson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. A mixture of aduts, teenagers and a couple of slightly younger children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy, structurally in one act, but with a run time that puts it into our full-length category. The author has combined satire, farce and affecting pathos to great effect. |
| Synopsis | A murder investigation with a difference sees Private Investigator Jack Doyle using narration and flashbacks in his quest to identify the perpetrator. |
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| Tremayne's Folly by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three adult males, three females and a thirteen-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty period script with some well-crafted characters. A single coastal setting. |
| Synopsis | In 1803, former soldier Parsons has taken up residence as the official hermit of Lord Tremayne's estate. But this simple life is threatened when he gets caught up in the extra-marital affairs of Sir William Pitt, and a dead Frenchman washes up on the beach. |
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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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| The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy (adapted Peter John Cooper) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.) |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set. |
| Synopsis | Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result. |
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| Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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| Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
| Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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| The Waiting Room by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play for a youth theatre company. |
| Synopsis | Becky is surprised to find herself in the afterlife, following a fall from a cliff. Since she died so young, she is offered the chance to return to the world for five 'experiences' that will round out her life before she moves on. |
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| The Wakefields at War by Tom Mather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play). |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family. |
| Synopsis | The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War. |
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| We Are The Cure by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length dystopian thriller with a single (schoolroom) setting. Ideal for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | A group of teenagers, subjects of a genetic experiment raised to believe they possess a cure for the plague that is raging through global society, escape from their compound during a cataclysmic flood. They come upon a ruined school and are amazed to find two normal children sheltering there. As surviving staff from the compound seek them out, they help each other in their desperate situation. |
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| What The Dickens! by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Roles can be doubled at will with some swift costume changes. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for eight original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | A full length musical play for secondary schools / youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | Charles Dickens hosts a musical journey through some of his most popular books. He links the works together and interacts personally with the various characters along the way. This includes some very feisty encounters with his less desirable creations. |
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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
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