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The Monster of Morgrave Manor by Louise Bramley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play on a manor house set. |
Synopsis | McClutchy the butler is enjoying a semi-retirement in Morgrave Manor, but his peace is shattered by new arrivals. Elaine is the niece of the previous owner, and has inherited the Manor. Old secrets are about to be uncovered. |
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My Angel by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length romantic comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | Mark's life has become intolerable following bankruptcy, marriage breakdown, ill health and the shame of having been caught shoplifting. He is resolved to end it all, though his apprentice guardian angel stops him and helps him put his life back together. But when everything is fixed, and Mark goes back to his wife, is it the kind of eternity Mark and his angel would choose? |
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Not 2B by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Excellent characters. Amanda especially would be a joy of a part - a scatty woman who's raised two wildly ambitious children, kind and soft except when she gets onto the subject of her ex-husband when she becomes positively possessed. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act play (but on the shorter side of that form). Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Amanda worries that her children, Tom and Laura, are too ambitious. Tom sets Laura up with a guy from his company, but the evening takes a few twists that no one was expecting. Luckily it all goes over Amanda's head, and she tells herself she's got a happy ending after all. |
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Oh My Lord! by John Furse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | A Vicar is astounded when an adult daughter he never knew he had arrives at the vicarage. The problem is further compounded when he discovers that she is a page three model and the Bishop is due anytime. More chaos ensues as the mother of the girl turns up. |
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Oh Pair! by Rob Ricards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy/farce. Single set, which, being a farce has a sofa, multiple doors and a set of French Windows. (The difference from every other stage set with French Windows is that this one is actually set in France!) Contains mild adult themes. |
Synopsis | Maddy and James are on holiday with their daughter and her baby. They've hired a French girl to act as an au pair during the holiday and return to England with them. At least, that's what they tried to do, but Dominique turns out to be Dominic, and he has a few other surprises in store for them... |
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Outside the Box by JPS Yates Performance by Tarrystone Players won the John Rigg Award for Best Comedy and the South of England Building Society Award for Best Stage Presentation at the Maidenhead Drama Festival 2011. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Six on--stage actors plus three offstage voices appearing briefly at the start (so could be recordings). |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play for adults, satirising office life - where the office workers are nursery toys. Single set. Written in one act, but quite long. A cracking pace might get it down to one-act-play festival length. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The nursery toys are mostly happy with their lot in life - only Ragdoll feels unwanted, so it doesn't surprise her when bureaucratic Fairy Crackernuts arrives and announces they're having 'a re-shuffle'. What does surprise her is that Teddy is the who's been made redundant... |
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Pawn by Brian Marchbank |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hour, 2 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Character comedy structured as a thriller. Single pawn shop setting. On the boundary between a full-length and a one-act play. |
Synopsis | The robbery of a Manchester pawn shop goes wrong and becomes a hostage situation, trapped together the hostages and hostage takers realise there is history between them, the resulting friction requires the novice police negotiator to deal with both volatile groups to resolve the situation. |
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Puppycock's Demons by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length supernatural comedy on a single (living room) set. Adult themes. |
Synopsis | John and Mary live with Mary’s mother, a stalwart in the church of the Universal Tabernacle. Mary’s always hoped John would assert himself a bit more, but now it seems that something demonic has got into him. |
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Right Move by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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