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The Birdman of Barnocky by Roger Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length drama on a single (disused hotel lounge) set. |
Synopsis | Having scattered his wife’s ashes on the island they both loved, Michael is hopeful he can buy the place and open the hotel they’d planned. But Alex also has plans for the island, as does Danny’s family. It’s enough to make you curse... |
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Blackmail by Lynn Snyder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One role is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Tense full-length drama with political, and moral themes. First published in 2010, revised in 2013. |
Synopsis | A congressman is being investigated over the disappearance of an intern with whom he was having an affair. His son tries to remain loyal but may have to sacrifice his own political career. Then the son meets the sister of the intern and falls in love, changing everything. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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Darling Deborah by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single set dramatising events from the Diary of Samuel Pepys much in the manner of a Restoration Comedy. |
Synopsis | A Victorian Transcriber is outlining sections of Samuel Pepys' diary as the events therein are brought to life by Pepys, Mrs Pepys and servant girl Deborah, reflecting the bawdy nature of 17th Century theatre. |
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Greeting Cards by Frank Flynn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama with a single setting and some adult themes. |
Synopsis | Greeting card artist Robbie has suffered a stroke and his room mate Max is struggling to care for him and encourage him to get back to work. Two women, Mandy and Max’s sister Gertie are the catalyst for life saving changes for both Robbie and Max. |
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Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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Home, Sweet Home by Adam Croft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts in a single living-room setting. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
Synopsis | Richard and wife Claire act as Samaritans as they give homeless Boz a bed for the night in their garage. Their act of kindness rebounds as Boz gradually makes himself at home and Claire is left with a life changing dilemma. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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Oh Pair! by Rob Ricards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy/farce. Single set, which, being a farce has a sofa, multiple doors and a set of French Windows. (The difference from every other stage set with French Windows is that this one is actually set in France!) Contains mild adult themes. |
Synopsis | Maddy and James are on holiday with their daughter and her baby. They've hired a French girl to act as an au pair during the holiday and return to England with them. At least, that's what they tried to do, but Dominique turns out to be Dominic, and he has a few other surprises in store for them... |
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