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Chum by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (rowing boat) setting. Adult themes. |
Synopsis | Freddy was acquitted of the murder of Junior's sister Lucy. On a moonlit night in the Bayou, the pair find themselves alone in a fishing boat, after apparently reconciling, but Junior has a sinister plan. |
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A Corpse for Christmas by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length thriller in a single set. |
Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve and the family are gathering, including maiden aunt Cilla who no-one is looking forward to seeing and tempers start to fray as soon as she arrives. A murder ensues... |
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Dead Ringer by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Not so much a whodunnit as 'who is doing what to whom?' One-act play, single simple interior set. |
Synopsis | Margo drags her friend Fran to a séance. The sceptical Fran doesn't expect to be able to contact Margo's dead husband but then strange things begin to happen... |
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Death on Dartmoor by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller with a single (pub) setting. |
Synopsis | Two newlyweds emerge from the thick mist into a remote Dartmoor inn. Why is the landlady so unwelcoming and what is the chef concealing? How long will it be before hidden agendas are revealed and someone is driven to murder? |
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Death Threats by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, one act thriller. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Katherine and Graham have taken a cottage in the country, but a threatening letter addressed to Katherine has found them anyway. She persuades him to call the police for help, but Constable Roberts has a surprise for them. |
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Death's Desire by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark full-length drama, with simple staging requirements. |
Synopsis | Lawrence’s latest therapy client is both challenging and a little scary. Confessing to multiple marriages under false pretences, and then murder, things only get worse when he reveals how much he knows about Lawrence’s fiancée. |
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Defenceless by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A well-written drama which touches on interesting issues of psychology and gender politics while being first and foremost a procedural crime thriller. One set - a police interview room with practical door. |
Synopsis | A newly appointed female Detective Inspector has the difficult task of getting a suspected murderer to confess his guilt as lack of evidence means he may have to be released. |
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Dig In For Murder by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller. |
Synopsis | Tensions rise as final preparations for tomorrow's village fete become fractious and old enmities come to the surface. This results in a gruesome murder in the garden shed and everyone, including the vicar, is suspect. |
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Dracula by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. This has been written to be easily staged, by use of props, lighting and sound, rather than elaborate sets. |
Synopsis | The classic gothic tale is authentically brought to life, as young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to a Transylvanian castle to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is planning to move to England. But he doesn't realise that the Count has a taste for blood... |
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The English Game by Roger Hodge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set. Some interesting challenges for the technical team! Contains mind swearing. |
Synopsis | Two German agents are preparing to meet a new contact on the eve of the Second World War. He seems genuine, but their suspicions become aroused and there is a confrontation. |
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