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Lot 249 by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act thriller, based on the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Multiple settings but intended to be created with lighting and portable set elements. |
Synopsis | Abercrombie Smith is a medical student at Oxford. Living in the flat below him is Edward Bellingham, a strange, short-tempered man who has a fascination with Egypt and owns Lot 249 - a mummy, bought at auction. After a number of strange incidents, Smith begins to believe that Bellingham may have found a way of bringing Lot 249 to life to do his bidding. |
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Love by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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Love in the Time of Zombies by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One of the few one-act stage treatments of the zombie apocalypse. Single living room set. Contains mild (especially for a world over-run by the living dead) swearing. |
Synopsis | Sometime in the near future. As flesh eating zombies terrorise the world, Brian and Susan attempt to maintain a normal life... |
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Lucky Dip by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, featuring the characters from the author’s previous play ‘Out for the Count’. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | William and Marilyn are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the mayor's anti-drugs campaign. Rumours of a drugs ring in the village stoke William's paranoia - what are the 'special plants' Vaslav is growing in his greenhouse, and what's in the mysterious package in the lucky dip? |
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
Synopsis | There'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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The Madness of Sherlock Holmes by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller. Single set - a prison cell! |
Synopsis | A curious and very authentic Holmes tale, with the Great Detective locked in a cell and wearing a straitjacket. Is there really a plot to assassinate the Queen, or is this a fabrication of Holmes' deranged mind, as his friend Watson suspects? |
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The Magic Apple Tree by Brian Coyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a compound (living room/city street) set. Adult themes, strong language. |
Synopsis | Nadia’s brother has gone missing in London and can hardly speak a word of English. He appears to be a lost soul, but who are the real lost souls in the city? A magical tale about how when you leave your home and move to a foreign country, you don’t leave what’s happened to you behind. |
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The Man From Clerihan by Paul Maher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy-drama in a single kitchen set. Themes from Chekhov's 'The Bear' elegantly reworked into modern day Ireland. |
Synopsis | Willie Cleary, a builder, calls on Mary Kate, the young widow of his recently deceased best friend, to collect money that is owing to him. Mary Kate is adamant that she owes him no money, so there is a high stakes stand-off. Mary Kate's fun-loving sister is only too happy to stoke-up the tension in a ferocious battle of wits between a very stubborn man and an equally stubborn woman. |
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Marigolds - Piling on the Agony by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Characters are a couple and their adult daughter. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy of self discovery. Contains swearing and a verbally explicit exploration of sexual themes. |
Synopsis | Harry and Marigold have a rocky marriage, but it's not in as bad shape as his... posterior. After he gets his long-suffering wife to help him out, we follow Harry and his family through more pain to reconciliation. Not for the faint-hearted! |
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