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| Men of Harlech by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gently humorous and life-affirming one-act play. Single set (a Welsh living room. Make your own mind up as to how that differs from, say, an English living room). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's the chance of a lifetime for Alun Evans - a friend is offering him a ticket to the Rugby World Cup Final to see Wales play. But it's in New Zealand. Then Alun's wife offers to buy his plane ticket for him... but it'll mean missing their 30th Wedding Anniversary. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Sebastian and Puck are written m but can be played f, with a name change for Sebastian and minor amendments to the text. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors, bringing a modern English version of the Shakespearean play to the stage. |
| Synopsis | Preparations are under way for the high-profile wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride the Warrior Queen Hippolyta, but the wedding planner Sebastian finds that he has more problems with the guests than the happy couple... including a rift in the Underworld, in-fighting among the entertainers, and a mischievous sprite to contend with. |
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| A Midsummer Nightmare by Karen Ince |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools - with a single, village tavern, setting. |
| Synopsis | William Shakespeare is suffering with writers' block. Struggling to find inspiration he visits a local inn, and whilst listening to a group of local workmen - who are planning to put on a play for a special wedding day, comes up with the plot he is looking for. |
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| Nothing Old Nothing New by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A farce with a single-setting - set over two acts, though could be performed in one. Some strong language |
| Synopsis | Valerie is dead but unable to leave her house, now occupied by her son and his wife Zoe - the cause of her fury and her enforced sit-in. Her grandson arrives to find his mother making plans for his sister’s wedding. When the bride and groom and his father arrive for the weekend along with the groom’s psychic mother, scandalous revelations lead to the wedding plans being blown apart and a ruined weekend, although chaotic events lead to Valerie’s happy release. |
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| On the Way to the Wedding by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two couples: a middle-aged man and his wife, and the wife's parents. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Domestic comedy. Single set divided into living room, hall and garage. |
| Synopsis | Nora, her husband Sid and Nora's parents have been invited to a wedding. Sid couldn't be happier - but that's because he is in the garage, changing the oil on his beloved car, where he can forget that his mother-in-law has inexplicably moved in. |
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| Our Julie's Big Day by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | It is the morning of Julie's wedding day. Her older female relatives fuss around her as they help her get ready for the big event when Julie drops the bombshell that she is having serious second thoughts. In describing the trials and tribulations of their own marriages Mum, Aunts and Granny strangely make up her mind for her. |
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| Out For The Count by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy-farce, with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Walter and Mabel are celebrating their ruby wedding. Unbeknown to the other, both arrange a surprise party. The twists and turns are exacerbated by the arrival of two amateur hypnotists who wreak further chaos. |
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| Perseus and Medusa - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for 7 songs (including reprises) plus overture are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical for kids - a humorous treatment in modern (American) English of ancient Greek myth. |
| Synopsis | Perseus has been given a challenge by the King: he must find and behead the gorgon Medusa, and bring the head back for the King's wedding day. Along the way he will meet gray sisters, nymphs, the gorgon herself and maybe even the woman he will marry... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Pride, Prejudice and Other Useful Qualities by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, in which Geoff Bamber exacts a gentle revenge on Jane Austen. In theory, there are multiple settings, but it is remarkable how similar Longbourn and Netherfield look... |
| Synopsis | The Bennet sisters are shopping their father into penury. He needs to marry them off (preferably without an expensive wedding.) There's Mr Bingley who's keen on Jane, Mr Collins who is keen on anyone who'll have him (which seems to limit the field), Captain Wickham, a military cad, and Mr Darcy who seems to be intent on making trouble or making whoopee (possibly at one and the same time). |
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| Reiterations by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat comedy in three acts. In theory there are two locations, but they are both very similar hotel interiors, so the difference between the acts is a bit of set dressing. |
| Synopsis | Three honeymooning couples end up at the wrong hotel and discover they have a lot more in common than sharing a wedding day - including the fact that all of the women have married the same man at least once! Moving to a different hotel does not help. |
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