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| Stuff And Nonsense by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian murder mystery melodrama presented with a large dose of comedy |
| Synopsis | It’s Christmas, and the Squire is on his way to evict the entire household of down-on-his-luck Taxidermist Sid Softnut. But the family have a plan to prevent the Squire throwing them out. His sudden death from poisoning changes everything... |
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To Know When My Time Will Come by Tony Frier
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with elements of murder mystery. (The comedy becomes darker as the murder mystery elements are introduced, but it retains its sense of humour and never becomes overly grim.) Single set. |
| Synopsis | Life trundles along at the Sunset Retirement Home - except when it comes to a sudden end. The matron offers residents an unusual bet: she predicts their date of death, and if she's right, she inherits all their wealth. Suspicious newcomer Emily decides to find out what's really going on. |
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| Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
| Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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| White Rock by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length thriller with one set comprising three simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Autocratic Sir James Bannerman is the long time head of the family publishing firm and brooks no argument from his fellow directors, two of whom are his adult children. Everyone at the office has their own compelling reasons to be rid of him and when he is murdered Inspector Hilliard has his work cut out to find the culprit. |
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Who Did You Say You Were? by Giles Scott
"Best Original Play" 2013 HHDS Awards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The cast play characters who, at times, are playing other characters. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy mystery. Complex plot, but great fun! (Mad in a splendid sort of way.) Single interior set. (The production notes include suggestions as to how the ghost drifts through the walls!) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's supposed to be a murder mystery weekend at a guest house, but one of the guests is psychic and has discovered the ghost of a real murder victim. The others have trouble keeping straight who they are, and who everyone else is and what they're supposed to be doing. Then the murderers arrive... |
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| Wild Ride by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters span four generations of a family. Ages range from teenage to retired. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play. Fast-paced comic mystery, featuring a murderously dysfunctional family. Single interior set (modern home). |
| Synopsis | The Wild family theatre has been a gold-mine, and it seems that the family members will do anything to get their hands on it, including various forms of deceit, forgery and even murder. Everyone seems to be scheming against everyone else - but who fired the fatal shot, and who is the strange policeman who comes to investigate? |
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| With Friends Like These... by Pat Baker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The setting is a school re-union, so whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be other actors milling-about, doing whatever it is people do at school re-unions. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery play. Single set (school hall with no specific features). Contains mild swearing. (Also contains murder.) |
| Synopsis | A bunch of old classmates meet at a school reunion. Classmates, but not necessarily friends. Everyone seems to hold a grudge against Carol, but whose thoughts have turned to murder? |
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