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Mirror, Mirror, on the WallAuthorNicholas Conti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play, a haunting - on the edge of Melodrama. Single interior set - a house in Salem in the 1940s. Characters are all adults but could be within the grasp of teenagers.
Synopsis A couple move into a new home in Salem, only to find that they are not alone...
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The Black WidowAuthorHelen Sharman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Parody of a Victorian melodrama - all the exaggerated wickedness, innocence, heroism and coincidence, with added comedy! Several scenes, but sets implied rather than elaborate. Simple props. Contains mild innuendo.
Synopsis Old lepidopterist, Squire Decrepit, is the wicked Vylene's fourth husband - and she's about to look for a fifth. All that stands between her and the dashing Mark Christmas is the sweet, innocent Abigail her strange uncle, Ivor and Squire Decrepit - who just happens to be in a wheelchair on a cliff-top.
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The Diabolical Duplication of DaisyAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act comedy. A modern take on the conventions of Victorian melodrama - innocent heroines, scheming wicked squires, that sort of thing.
Synopsis Daisy, working with her mother in the kitchens, is trying hard to resist the grubby blandishments of Sir Odious Malpractice, who wants her to marry him. Unknown to Daisy, Victor Tallbody has arrived to tell her she has inherited a fortune, just in the nick of time.
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The Ghosts of Marvin GrangeAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults.
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.)
Synopsis Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely more to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad...
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The Horrible Hot Air HomicideAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format.
Synopsis 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny.
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