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The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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After Twenty Years by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A sketch on a blank stage, based on an O. Henry short story, |
Synopsis | Bob, a wanted criminal, visits New York to see a friend for the first time in twenty years. Ironically, his friend has become a cop. |
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An Afternoon In September by B.J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A drama in two acts (though, with just under an hour's run time - can be performed in one). Touches of tragicomedy and a supernatural element. A simple, multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | The residents of an old folks home are all concerned about Morris who is approaching the end. He expresses a final wish which they all contribute to making come true. An out of world experience he encountered during his service in the Royal Navy poignantly repeats itself for him, with the help of a small pebble. |
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Ageing Disgracefully by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set at a Post Office counter. |
Synopsis | Stella is manning the Post Office counter by herself, when a known awkward customer arrives. |
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Aim by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
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Albert by Janice Sampson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] May be staged with an interval. |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy drama. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Contains swearing (and a coffin). |
Synopsis | Before flying out to Sacramento to visit his ailing brother, Albert leaves a recording of a few confessions in case something happens to him. There has been a plane crash, and Albert's valedictory address is watched by his grieving son, daughter and sister, who learn a few surprising things, but are in for an even bigger surprise... |
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Albert and His Women by Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The youngest character is aged 52. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. Contains one mild swearword (the play, not the set). |
Synopsis | Albert's doing his best to set his 52 year old son Tom up with a female friend. Tom thinks it's to compensate for his lack of ability with women, since he never knew his mother, but actually Albert has other motives... |
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Albert and More Women by Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single (London flat) set. (This uses the same characters and setting as 'Albert and His Women', but functions as an intependent play - thus they could be used together or separately.) Contains minor swearing. |
Synopsis | Albert and his son Tom continue their search for women - Tom by taking Albert's tips and Albert by getting Tom out of the flat. But tonight they both get much more than they bargained for! |
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Albert in the 21st Century by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway). |
Synopsis | You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom At a zoo, for a lion, was chow Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence Saying things like that don't happen now! |
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Alekhine's Greatest Defeat by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student. |
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