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| Benchmarks by Bob Hartwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The classic park bench set is the starting point for a gently funny and satisfying script that gives strong roles for six actors. |
| Synopsis | Around an ordinary park bench on a November day, the stories of six people intersect - an old lady determined to make trouble, a paranoid and overworked park keeper, a teenage mother anxious to meet a stranger, a jogger desperate to get fit, a businessman secretively making notes, and a married woman keen to deceive her husband. |
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| Turning The Tables by Bob Hartwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and two offstage (male) voices. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, fast-paced comedy in a single café set. |
| Synopsis | Londoner Freddie Fleetwood buys the Cozee Corner Café in a rural village, planning to open an upmarket eatery. But the cook and waitress regard themselves as fixtures and fittings, and an elderly customer always shows up even when the place is closed. Throw in Freddie's dodgy business adviser and a French chef who cannot speak French, and all seems lost. |
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