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| Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
| Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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| Shakespeare's Women by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus four phone voices (which could be recordings). |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. |
| Synopsis | Best-selling author, acknowledged world authority on Shakespeare and totally irresistible to women, Herbie has the world at his feet. Or rather, he did, until three mysterious visitors arrive late at night with a mind-blowing offer... |
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| Sherlock Holmes' Last Case by Charlie Cook |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy play (single set). |
| Synopsis | The fabulous Kalimari diamond has been stolen from a locked bag in a locked safe, and when Watson hands over the ransom, the receiver is murdered horribly! A brilliant Holmes pastiche with appropriate gags and a surprise ending. |
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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
| Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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| Shivers by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Trilogy of one-act plays with a supernatural theme. Two interior sets plus the interior of an elevator cabin. A mixture of comedy and ghostly melodrama. |
| Synopsis | The three scripts - Falling Apart, All Hallows Eve and Knock Knock, Who's There? - are all available separately.
Whilst there is no set order to the plays, Falling Apart - with a couple trapped in a lift - might be performed front-of-curtain between the other two plays, which each require an interior setting with a practical window. |
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| Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
| Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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| Something to Talk About - The Play by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in four scenes with various settings. An extension of the sketch of the same name. |
| Synopsis | Friends Grace, Alice and Doreen become increasingly amorously linked to each other’s partners. The settings move between England and Spain as their tangled relationships move forward and their infidelities become more surprising, leading to an eventful conclusion. |
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| Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Eight roles but two of them are written to be doubled by specific cast members. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly, raucous farce set around a séance. Fun characters, cheeky wit, a lot of physical humour, and some audience interaction. (American English.) |
| Synopsis | Madame Sirena prepares to conduct a séance at the mansion of wealthy widower Taffy, who has sworn to bring his late wife's murderer to justice before he remarries - but the clock is ticking for his fiancée, Felicity, who must wed before she turns 30 to claim her inheritance. Meanwhile, escape artist Harry Hugweenie resists the advances of his spirited assistant as he waits on a promised message from the other side. |
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| Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action. |
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| Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
| Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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