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| The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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| Stuff And Nonsense by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian murder mystery melodrama presented with a large dose of comedy |
| Synopsis | It’s Christmas, and the Squire is on his way to evict the entire household of down-on-his-luck Taxidermist Sid Softnut. But the family have a plan to prevent the Squire throwing them out. His sudden death from poisoning changes everything... |
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To Know When My Time Will Come by Tony Frier
Best Comedy - Maidenhead Drama Festival 2024 and Best Play (Adult) - Maidenhead Drama Festival 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with elements of murder mystery. (The comedy becomes darker as the murder mystery elements are introduced, but it retains its sense of humour and never becomes overly grim.) Single set. |
| Synopsis | Life trundles along at the Sunset Retirement Home - except when it comes to a sudden end. The matron offers residents an unusual bet: she predicts their date of death, and if she's right, she inherits all their wealth. Suspicious newcomer Emily decides to find out what's really going on. |
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