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The Perils at Peddler's Cove by Richard Coleman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleMurder mystery peopled with eccentric - and suspicious - characters. One set with additional front-of-curtain scenes.
SynopsisLetters from a lawyer summon a group of people to a remote island, apparently for a weekend house-party, but then one of the guests is murdered.
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Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleEaster play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set.
SynopsisThe story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.)
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The Play Of The Year by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One M and one F voice are offstage, could be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 66 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy, with a fairly simple set.
SynopsisThe committee tasked with choosing the winner of the 'Play of the Year' competition really has their work cut out, and they also have to contend with being both helped and hindered by the building janitor and tea lady. A comedy drama with twists - which may keep the audience misled until the last moment!
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Postal by Herb Hasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length whacky comedy play (in two acts). Single set divided into the front and back offices of the Post Office.
SynopsisA dysfunctional post office in Hicksville has a tough inspection, which isn't helped by a former employee taking everyone hostage in an attempt to get his job back. Illicit affairs, novels in progress and unrequited love, not to mention robbery ensure a busy time for all.
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Priceless by Mary Portalska
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 54 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA very funny, fast-paced comedy. Simple staging on one set, and a cast of 1M, 3F, 2 either – so easily stageable by most amdram groups.
SynopsisBatley Hall is in desperate need of repairs, and elderly Sylvia refuses to let custodians Tom and Anna sell their one asset, a priceless Ming dynasty vase. Tom hits on the idea of giving guided tours to bring in some money, but their only guests are shady characters with their eyes on the vase, and the hall’s resident ghost only adds to the chaos.
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The Prisoners' Dilemma by Matthew Lynch
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Six main characters and four cameo roles.
Run TimeAround 71 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA drama in two scenes, which could be played as two acts - making it a full length piece, with a single (prison cell) set.
SynopsisA disparate group of strangers are locked in a prison cell, not knowing the reason for their incarceration. They are all put to the test through a series of challenges, some of which could be lethal, and finally seem able to benefit - from finding their inner selves.
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The Purse by E. Bert Wallace
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 53 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act commedia dell’arte play on a single (village square) set. US English.
SynopsisIn a small Italian town in days of old, Arlecchino, a happy but none-too-bright servant, tries to keep the peace between his miserly master, Pantalone, and Dottore, a tipsy scholar. Dottore’s son Fabrizio returns from the University and promptly falls in love with Pantalone’s beautiful young wife, Isabella. Meanwhile, the bragging Capitano and his villainous sergeant Brighella arrive, seeking to con the town.
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Pussycats by Kathleen Grotzinger
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 54 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama offering a thoughtful take on women in a male-dominated workplace, touching on serious issues while never feeling too grim. Well developed characters in a majority female cast.
SynopsisIn Missouri in the 1970s, Lori works as a 'Mama Cat' - a manager for the Casanova Club. She's been waiting for her opportunity to break the glass ceiling and become an executive, and that opportunity finally arrives after one of the 'Kittens' is assaulted at a party - but can she bring herself to do everything she's asked?
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Ransom by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 56 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy with a single composite setting.
SynopsisSuccessful businessman Laurence Benson has been rather clumsily kidnapped by Robbie, Fran and Ted, a tough but likeable gang of unfortunate down-and-outs. It transpires that Benson is such an unpleasant individual that neither his wife, nor his son, nor his business partner want him back. How will the kidnappers react to being foiled and what will it mean for Benson? The action takes place in the days running up to 8th April 1967, when the Grand National was run, providing a vital cog in the plot.
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The Raven by George Douglas Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy play for teenagers, inspired by (rather than based on) the poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Single set.
SynopsisA comedic swipe at the world of sorcery, pitting the not-quite-so-brilliant Phoebus and his apprentice Bulbo, against the evil Dr Sarcophagus in a mage battle to decide the fates of many.
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