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The New Patio by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The police are written male but could become female with a few small tweaks to the script. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and witty one-act comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | Sarah's marriage to Jeffrey is effectively over, even before he emails her to say he's absconded with fraudulently earned riches. She shows the message to the police, but they find no evidence of the crime. Can she be planning to join him or has she instead formed a liaison with friendly builder Ted, who has just laid her new patio? |
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Nursery Crime Scene Investigation by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody - a ten minute play with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Tommy is a Nursery Land CSI officer, charged with investigating the death of Solomon Grundy - who seems to have lived his life in something of a hurry... Could this be a case of identity theft, and can Tommy unmask his killer? |
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Nursery Crimes - the Complete Series by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements. |
Synopsis | A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code. |
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Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody as a 15-minute play, with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Business is slow for Fairytale PI, Puss in Boots. All that changes when he is handed a set of files belonging to the late Humpty Dumpty Puss is drawn into a complex web of intrigue and conspiracy involving the FBI (Fairyland Bureau of Investigation), the 3 Pigs Construction Empire and the Big Bad Wolf. |
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Nursery Crimes: Four and Twenty by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Film noir meets nursery story meets TV parody (in this case '24') in a one-act play. (This is the longest of the Nursery Crimes series of corny pastiches!) |
Synopsis | It is Special Agent Jack Horner's first week on the CTU (Counter Trolls Unit) and he is just about to face the toughest four and twenty hours of his career! |
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On Unofficial Business by Craig Sandeman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An inspirational one act play mixing comedy with delicately handled pathos within the imaginative setting of a prison van! Contains swearing (and a lot of other things). |
Synopsis | Prisoners Tam, Lenny and Bruce are being transferred to another jail when their van is hijacked by Christine who is struggling with her own desperate situation. As they hide in a forest clearing the unlikely quartet slowly become a unit, offering heart-warming and amusing support one for the other as they sit around the camp fire and gradually bare their souls. |
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One Thing After Another by Steve Beeton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with an 80s setting. |
Synopsis | When Bert and Eric dig up an old box on the allotment, they hope it contains treasure that will change their lives forever. Changes ARE coming, but the whole family is in for a bunch of surprises. |
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The Order of the Pink Pantyhose by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An old-fashioned 'play' on manners and a light-hearted spoof of the traditional murder mystery. |
Synopsis | Four elderly women-a fidgety hostess, her grumpy cousin, a southern belle, and a British cynic--sit down for afternoon tea. One is a murderer in disguise, one a detective in disguise, one a humanitarian worker in disguise, and one an innocent bystander (also in disguise). Conversation soon turns from the state of the weather to the untimely death of Great-Aunt Charlotte Robinson (the undercover leader of band of pantyhose thieves). And before you can say 'pink pantyhose,' an innocent tea party has turned into a dangerous (if slightly silly) game of 'who dun it?' |
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Over My Dead Body! by Pat Baker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic murder mystery set in a manor house in the 1920s. One act, one set, simple props. |
Synopsis | Tensions are rising at Grabbit Manor. Lord Grabbit won't buy his daughter a new dress for her engagement to the unsuitable wastrel Roger. Curt, the butler, hasn't been paid for months and Lord Grabbit suspects Cook of cooking the books. When the lights come on after a sudden blackout, a body is found - a problem for Inspector Foot (of the Yard)... the problem being that the corpse has been poisoned, strangled, stabbed and shot! |
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Partners by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Barry and Diego are on the run after just robbing a bank. They choose the wrong apartment to hide in. |
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