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| Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Banker's Hat by Richard Moon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three women and three or four men (John Collin could double with Mr Macduff). |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. A fun take on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, with modern sensibilities and humour. |
| Synopsis | Quietly, behind the scenes, Mrs Hudson and her friends solve a mystery that is baffling the great detective. |
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| Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour. |
| Synopsis | An exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - At Centre Parcs by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Smith recounts her adventures on a family holiday to Centre Parcs |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - Michelle's Diet by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Smith reviews timekeeping and her daughter's approach to a healthier lifestyle. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - My Day Out by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | An account of Mrs. Smith's holiday - a day trip to the Bluewater shopping centre. |
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| Much Ado About W... by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short panto-like, adult-themed farce. |
| Synopsis | Quickfire gags, mistaken identities and outlandish new fashion designs confuse the King into believing his unmarried daughter, Princess Grace is pregnant. Is effeminate fashion designer Sir Pryze at the bottom of this? And what has assistant Watt been up to? |
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| Much Ado About William by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be played by kids or by a mixed group of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A harassed Shakespeare tries to complete a play while his Stratford family bring noise, combat and teenage strife into the room where he works, until the silent Bard can take no more. |
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| Mudboy and the Messkings by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Mom, the parent and the announcer are (obviously) written as adults, but there is no impediment to them being played by teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and two reprises are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A comedy play with music in one act. Three sets - representative rather than detailed, though the final scene does require a practical mud pit! |
| Synopsis | Robby Robindale and his gang, the Messkings, are experts in getting everything - particularly themselves - muddy. However Robby's nemesis is at hand in the form of Lilly Lucas whose ambition is to take Robby to the school dance, whether he likes it or not. |
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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
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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
| Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
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| Murder at Peculiar Manor by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery - a satisfactory plot, with twists and red herrings, but with tongue-in-cheek comedy thrown in. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Dr Fincham certified that Lady Peculiar died of natural causes, but an Inspector is asking questions of the staff... What's the Maid's secret? Why was the will changed, and is it important that the apples are being stolen? |
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