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Inspector Quaker of the Yard by Peter Stallard
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play - a spoof detective story.
SynopsisCecil has gone missing (from his position on the mantlepiece) and Lady Boulder has to find him - and his urn. The stage is set for
Inspector Quaker of the Yard in The Return of the Cecil Vessel.
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Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicAlternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience.
SynopsisInspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders?
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog!
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue.
SynopsisThere's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead?
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Megan and the Golden Key by Geoff Bamber
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. One character is the unseen 'voice of doom'
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSingle set comic fantasy, parodying (amongst other things) science fiction and James Bond.
SynopsisIt is a little-known fact that the earth rotates because someone turns the mechanism with a Golden Key, housed in The Mystic Chamber deep in The Underland. This is what happens when the key goes missing...
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The Merry Women of Windham by Nicholas Conti
Winner in the Nov. 2005 Gettysburg College (PA.) World Premiere One Act Play Festival. Performance by Trinity Drama Group placed second in the Confined Category in the Balbriggan One Act Festival 2009
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleBlack comedy set in a modern American suburb. One-act, single set.
SynopsisA Garden Mystery or 'Victoria's Secret'... The women of Victoria's Garden Club devise novel ways of dealing with problems in their domestic relationships. All the solutions are permanent, though they require a fair amount of digging, and Victoria's garden contains some unusual plants. All the club members are blissfully contented until the digging and the ceremonial chanting is brought to the attention of a local policewoman, who comes to investigate...
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Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Banker's Hat by Richard Moon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three women and three or four men (John Collin could double with Mr Macduff).
Run TimeAround 29 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy in a single set. A fun take on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, with modern sensibilities and humour.
SynopsisQuietly, behind the scenes, Mrs Hudson and her friends solve a mystery that is baffling the great detective.
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Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Disappearing Trombonist by Richard Moon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Three male roles, but playable by the same actor. Five female roles, requiring at least four actors.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy in a single set. An original case for Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper (although she does help solve a better-known Holmes case on the side).
SynopsisA young man walks into his house and, apparently, disappears from the face of the Earth. But Daisy has fallen in love with him, and wants to know what happened. Mrs Hudson and Mrs Madingley investigate.
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Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour.
SynopsisAn exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer.
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Murder at Dress Rehearsal by Paul Mathews
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play - about a play within a play, on a single stage set.
SynopsisThis plays on the known eccentricities of local theatre. Real life drama is causing tension on and offstage at the dress rehearsal for 'Ich Liebe Dich', the wartime play. But worse is to come, when someone switches the blank ammunition for live and the leading man dies on stage - for real!
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Murder at Peculiar Manor by Paul Mathews
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act murder mystery - a satisfactory plot, with twists and red herrings, but with tongue-in-cheek comedy thrown in. Contains very mild swearing.
SynopsisDr Fincham certified that Lady Peculiar died of natural causes, but an Inspector is asking questions of the staff... What's the Maid's secret? Why was the will changed, and is it important that the apples are being stolen?
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