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| Problem In Judaea by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easter play. Structurally in two acts, but of one act length. Three sets, but designed for minimal staging. |
| Synopsis | A minimalist retelling of the events surrounding the Crucifixion, told from the point of view of Pilate, the Sanhedrin and Herod. |
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| Profound Moments by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a single pub set. Contains swearing (and discussions amongst ladies). |
| Synopsis | A quartet of modern single lady friends gather in a pub for a girlie night out. They relate (in intimate detail) their experiences with the opposite sex, and their search for that profound moment which will see them find Mr Right... |
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| Psychic Babble by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play One Mistake. |
| Synopsis | Aspiring psychic Jim joins his new girlfriend Sandra and her friends Vera and Marjorie for a pub quiz, and tries to predict the answers. He hopes to impress Sandra enough for her to invest in his business. |
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| The Psychotherapist In Spite Of Himself by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comical farce in one act and one (simple, domestic) set. |
| Synopsis | Ronald wants to marry Janey, but he thinks she's worried about his acting career. He poses as a psychotherapist to see if he can convince her that he's a good actor - and ends up taking on her entire family's emotional problems in one very busy day. |
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| The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play |
| Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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| Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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| The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play with a single garage setting. |
| Synopsis | When the mechanics at Smith’s garage take on a new apprentice, they don’t expect Frankie to be a woman, or so capable. She soon has the place running better than ever, and that creates a new problem. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| The Quickness of the Hand by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy loosely adapted from a short story by Saki (H. H. Munro). |
| Synopsis | Sarah is celebrating her fortieth birthday with husband Adrian and some friends. A relative not seen for years shows up, and they're not sure whether it's Sarah's kleptomaniac cousin Frank or Adrian's Frankfurter cousin Frank. And then a box with two gold rings goes missing. |
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| The Quintessential Quintet by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are five adventurous children, probably to be played by adults. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody in the style of Enid Blyton. |
| Synopsis | Four children (two boys, one girl, one tomboy) and their dog are out in the countryside for a picnic. They encounter some odd flashes of light that could be smugglers signalling, and an odd sort of boy who may be a new chum or someone more sinister. |
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| Quite a Buzz! by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. An unusual cast of characters! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play, minimal set requirements (a chair), simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Blue has got herself stuck, but Mr S is not helping her - in fact, he's tied her up. Two more fall victim to Mr S's trap, before we meet his lady-friend and find out what - or who - is really for dinner. |
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