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A Man Walks Into a Bra by Jonathan Goodson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy-thriller with a single set (plus front-of-curtain prologue). |
Synopsis | A pair of detectives investigate suspicious activity in Bar Harmony, uncovering fraud, theft, deceit, administering a noxious substance and very poor taste in trousers. |
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The Master Thief by Joseph A. Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Distinct age gap between the two characters. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy drama, with tension - about deceits and money. |
Synopsis | An old man has his quiet evening in his poor home disturbed, by a frightened young man pretending to come from a charity. He isn't, but the old man isn't what he seems either. |
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Maverick Cop by Paul John Matthews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length madcap comedy caper with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | When the local police force is baffled by a series of seemingly unrelated murders they decide that the only answer is to recall the rule-breaking individualist detective Bob Marsland to take over. His Clouseau-like antics somehow achieve the breakthrough the police have been seeking. |
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Me And You by Tony Domaille Journeyman Theatre Productions - Best Director, Best actor, Best actress and Best Supporting actor, Avon Short Play Festival 2020 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama. Part II of the author's Changes trilogy. |
Synopsis | Phil and his mates have bungled a robbery and he and his friend, Mikey, have run to the only safe place they can think of: The 'Me & You Café', owned by Phil’s daughter. Whilst they wait to see if the police are on to them, Phil and his daughter find themselves exploring how it all came to this, and whether their relationship can withstand past and present pressures. |
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Merely Players by Damian Trasler Performance by Debenhem Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the 2015 Woodbridge Drama Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Each of the actors plays two contrasting roles. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, morphing from light back-stage romantic comedy into a murder mystery and back again. Single set, most of which is put in place during the course of the play. |
Synopsis | This is great fun. Starting with a bare stage, under the guise of tidying the theatre's store of props and costumes, the characters accidentally build the set of a drawing-room murder mystery, and Phyllis's daydream of being the Lady of the Manor suddenly comes to life as a period drama, until the spell is broken, leaving Phyllis with new insights into her life. |
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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 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Black comedy set in a modern American suburb. One-act, single set. |
Synopsis | A 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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Micky Marvello by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Micky Marvello is Circus Fantastique’s accident prone magician and now he has disappeared. The police are investigating how and why he has gone missing, whilst people in the circus aren’t sure if it is a case of foul play or magic gone wrong. |
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Misdemeanours by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | At the police station, the sergeant comes up against reality. |
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The Mr Misty Mystery by Martin Clare Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy, set mainly in the living room of a cheap flat. |
Synopsis | Abbey's brainwave intended to help her and flatmate Jess out of their financial difficulties becomes more and more complex. Her carefully planned art heist seems foolproof until accomplices Suzy and Eva become involved, as does the local police chief with surprising results. |
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Murder At Merryweather Mansion by Lauren Jones Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch-length murder mystery parody. In theory, two sets, but the opening scene could be delivered front-of curtain or in a spotlight to one side of the stage. |
Synopsis | When the odorous Mike Merryweather is murdered in his own living room, Detective McGloclyn is left with a roomful of suspects and more than a few clues and motives. His keen detective sense may not be up to unmasking the killer. |
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