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Consequences by Duncan Battman Production by CHADS won the Best Senior Production award at the Wilmslow One-Act Festival, 2017 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single interior set. A very theatrical presentation, without being melodramatic. Contains unsavory language (and murder, and policemen). |
Synopsis | A young policeman and his older sergeant discover a dead body, along with a letter that casts new light on a long closed case. A case that the sergeant worked on a young PC, which may have resulted in the wrong man being jailed and dying in prison. |
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Dead Air by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance anticipated to be one act length. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for an opening song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A non-interactive Murder Mystery in two acts, with the performance anticipated to be one act length. |
Synopsis | It is 1965 and obnoxious and demanding radio star Oscar learns that his show is to be axed, pushing his nastiness to even greater levels. There are many suspects for his inevitable murder and the investigation takes many turns. |
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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 by Detective by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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Death of the Dowager by Rupert Dick Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy murder mystery on a single (drawing room) set. |
Synopsis | The family believe the dowager is fading fast, but it’s still not fast enough for some. Death certainly does have appointments in the house, but he comes for some unexpected characters first. |
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The Double-Headed Penny-Farthing by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set. |
Synopsis | Holmes and Watson crack a curious case of diamond-thievery without even leaving the fireside of 221b Baker Street. |
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An Elliot Steinway Mystery by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark. |
Synopsis | Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably. |
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The Fiery Bride by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Traditional carols, to be sung or played from a recording between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A ghost story for Christmas, interspersed with traditional carols. (Structurally in two acts, but with a duration on the boundary between one-act and full-length.) |
Synopsis | This dramatisation of a classic Dorset ghost story evokes life in rural Dorset and the clash between aristocrats and servants at the turn of the 18th Century. |
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A Frame That Fits by William Campbell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Interesting crafting of character - especially on the part of Richard Gloster, the unorthodox detective, who, given his name, has a tendency to attempt iambic pentameter. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act detective story - not so much a 'whodunnit?' as a 'how do we prove that he dunnit?' Multiple locations, but intended to be represented minimally in a single composite set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A family has been found murdered - apparently by their daughter, who then took her own life. The police suspect a frame-up, since the family's nephew stands to profit from their deaths, but they need to call on the unorthodox services of Private Investigator Richard Gloster to prove it. |
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The Ghosts of Halfway House by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A halloween play (or a play for whenever else you want a ghost story). Single set. Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Simon and Daphne are looking around an old house, with Simon's mother in tow. They aren't convinced it's the right place for them, and Mr Godley the estate agent is unusual. They're in for quite an evening before they find out more than they expected about the house and its history. |
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