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The Haunted Cabin by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense ghost story in two acts and a single set. |
Synopsis | When Emily, Joe and Danny stumble across the isolated cabin on Shantler's Peak all is not as it seems. Strange noises and sinister apparitions plague the stranded inhabitants, who desperately seek a rational explanation. Will they survive the storm until help arrives, or just become the new eternal residents of the haunted cabin? A sinister play with a twist that will fool your audience right to the end - one of the characters is a ghost and cannot be seen or heard by any of the others. He appears to be speaking to them, when in fact he is not. |
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The Murder of Arthur Bennington by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery play. Country house setting. Stage divided into one central section and two raised wings. Two simple sets for the main section, static wings. |
Synopsis | Arthur Bennington, a vile and detestable man is murdered one stormy night. Detective Inspector Perry, with his rather peculiar methods, must solve the case. Why is Elle the maid always so nervous? Did Percy the gardener really see Reginald returning home at 7:00am? Is George really as stupid as he makes out? What's Ronald Shifty got to do with it all and who can make sense of their old Auntie Agnes? Can Perry answer all these before the killer strikes again? |
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A Play on Words by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include the Stage Crew, although these are non-speaking parts (they get as far as nodding and rolling their eyes). |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play set amidst rehearsals for a theatre production. Lots of good jokes, both verbal and visual. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Clifford Pratt-Shore is directing his masterwork, a play about Wordsworth's life and love. Sadly, his leading man is a yob, his Assistant Director is more of a hindrance and the Vicar uses the Hall as a petty cash fund. As for the bit-players Marvin and Benny, how could they be any use to him? |
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The Prisoners' Dilemma by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 71 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A drama in two scenes, which could be played as two acts - making it a full length piece, with a single (prison cell) set. |
Synopsis | A 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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