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| An Evening to Forget by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The 'Boss coming to dinner' trope is one that has been used for years, but this script succeeds in taking it in a new direction in spectacular fashion with elements of light comedy, farce and thriller. |
| Synopsis | Olivia is worried, because her boss is coming to dinner and it’s very short notice. And he’s bringing a companion. And it’s a very important dinner. But when things really go wrong, it’s not any of the issues she was imagining. |
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| The Great Mallard by Martin Clare |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (hotel reception and bedroom). |
| Synopsis | Ginny arrives at The Great Mallard, a dilapidated hotel in a failing British seaside resort. Surprised to have any guests during the off-season, the manager reluctantly accommodates her, but soon finds himself faced with more unexpected guests, all requesting to stay in the same specific room. It rapidly becomes clear that ulterior motives are at play in this tongue-in-cheek thriller. |
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| Hump Day by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (office) setting. |
| Synopsis | Unassuming accountant Barry is auditing the books at the inefficiently run Reynolds head office when he discovers that new recruit Andy plots to take over the firm. But Barry has nefarious ideas of his own. |
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| Legacy by Lee Stewart |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
| Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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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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| Murder at the Murder Mystery Party by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller in two short acts and one (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Richard and Miranda's stormy marriage might reach some semblance of stability during a murder mystery party for their friends. Unfortunately tensions abound at the party and someone is actually murdered. |
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| Murder in the Village Hall by Emma Bevan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single (village hall) setting. |
| Synopsis | The parish council meeting is interrupted by first the local guides who borrow the table, and then the police, informing them of the death of the parish council chairman in unusual circumstances. A catalogue of disaster follows as the bumbling Inspector tries to solve the murder, but the murderer is still at large and on the rampage with an apparent grudge against the parish council. This comedy thriller follows the investigation real time. Can anyone work out who the killer is before it’s too late? Will the guides return the table? Will the rain ever stop and will the meeting ever be finished? |
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| Pawn by Brian Marchbank |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hour, 2 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy structured as a thriller. Single pawn shop setting. On the boundary between a full-length and a one-act play. |
| Synopsis | The robbery of a Manchester pawn shop goes wrong and becomes a hostage situation, trapped together the hostages and hostage takers realise there is history between them, the resulting friction requires the novice police negotiator to deal with both volatile groups to resolve the situation. |
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| Read All About It by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned... |
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| Some People by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller. Single (hotel lobby) set, made complicated by the presence of a functioning lift (or, at least, a functioning set of lift doors). Contains mild swearing (and eccentricity). |
| Synopsis | Things are busy enough at the Lucky Star Hotel, what with the lift being almost as unpredictable as the guests and staff, but now there are two jewel thieves returning to claim the loot they buried years before... under the kitchen floor! |
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