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Murder in Writing by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length thriller in a single living room set. |
Synopsis | A new executive producer has taken over TV detective show Quest for Justice, and he’s gathered all the writers at his country estate with an ultimatum – present him some exciting new plots or lose their jobs. But soon their weekend takes a surprising turn and the writers have a real murder to solve. |
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New Beginnings by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, elements of a detective thriller (though with plenty of levity). Some mild language. |
Synopsis | Ex Insurance Investigator Gary’s suggestion that he and wife Fern go on a cruise is not as altruistic or romantic as first appears. A ring of thieves are aboard and Gary has suspicions as to the indentity of the culprits. |
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Obvious Guilt by Ethan Bortman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Nigel is a smart man: a Psychiatrist, no less. But his wife has gone missing and her mother is determined to involve the police. As time goes by, things look blacker for Nigel, but he protests his innocence to the last. |
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One Sweet Kiss by Emma Northcott Best actress at the 2020 NOSCARS (NODA East District 9). Original script Winner 2017. Queen Mother Theatre. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act thriller with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Sophie has invited her friends Sarah and Ross over for dinner. Tony, Sophie’s partner, isn’t pleased. Sarah thinks she has discovered a chilling secret from Tony’s past and as the evening wears on, her tongue loosens and accusations are made with devastating consequences. |
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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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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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Reasonable Doubt by A.D. Peters |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play in two short acts - courtroom drama and crime - the way the jury sees is, and the way it happened. |
Synopsis | A tense courtroom drama with the prosecutor battling a slick defence lawyer at the murder trial of social misfit Josephine Mason. The second act takes the form of a flashback portraying the murder of which she is accused. We are left with the dilemma of knowing jury's decision before we learn the identity of the murderer. We are then able to evaluate the justice of the verdict, wherein lies the final twist. |
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Room with a View by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | Four thieves meet in a high rise hotel room after a botched bank heist. The situation only gets worse. |
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A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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