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| The Capers at Cricketers' Copse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A tale of intrigue, and double cross as the Ladies of the village of Fritton-upon-Sewer decide to stage their own cricket match, when Fritton should be playing in the first round of the Brewster Cup. Meanwhile a diverse range of suspicious characters are trying to take control of the cricket ground. All this, and hidden treasure too... |
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Captain Bluebeard's Monkey by David Pemberton
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Chorus size very flexible, at the Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act piratical fantasy comedy. |
| Synopsis | The eponymous monkey uses his guile to thwart the late Captain Bluebeard's swashbuckling crew in their attempts to discover Bluebeard's treasure - which is not what it first appears to be. |
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| Captain Crimson by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. This is another script in which wooden acting might be an advantage. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody sketch. (If you don't understand what is being parodied, then it clearly isn't for you!) |
| Synopsis | It's another tough day at crime-fighting organisation PRISM's HQ. Someone has been paralysing the agents of Prism one limb at a time! Could it be the Mysteroffs? And why is Captain Crimson holding those shears? |
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| A Captivating Situation by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Howie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives? |
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| Cards on the Table by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | It seems a cut-and dried case for Inspector Whalley and colleagues - they know the crime and who dunnit, but, of course, there's a twist for the sleuths to sort out.
'Cards on the Table' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2. |
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| Career Change by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Written as 2 male and 1 female, but could be reversed with minor changes. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy parodying religious logic. It might offend some of the more devout members of audiences, but they'll get over it. |
| Synopsis | Wally visits the local vicar to say he is considering a career change and thinks he might like to become a god. The vicar is understandably sceptical at first, but is eventually won over. |
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| Careless Talk by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
| Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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| Carnival by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama, in which the characters are really unsure of their future... |
| Synopsis | It's the day before a huge, unstoppable cataclysm. Some are singing, some are crying, some are partying. Moby and Jill are spending the evening with their friends Corinna and Daval. If the world doesn't end tomorrow, it will never be the same - so why not sing and be with your friends? |
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| Carrie's Lions by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father. |
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| A Case of Good Intentions by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone. |
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