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Dummy Cabs by S. P. Franksson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four on-stage characters, seven live voices (which could, conceivably, be played by one male actor) plus a recorded message. |
Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun full-length comedy with likeable characters in a single taxi office setting. |
Synopsis | It's the 1990s and Dermy Cabs is under threat from a competitor. Beryl, the overworked switchboard operator, struggles with phone, radios and in-person customers whilst trying to keep the company's drivers under control, especially Bob, whose wife has kicked him out of the house. |
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Extended Relations by Eric Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters ages are especially relevant. |
Run Time | Around 127 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A farce-style comedy, in two acts, with a single set. |
Synopsis | Hillary has tracked down her birth Mother and has arranged a meeting - after six months of phone calls. Unfortunately for her, her adoptive Mother doesn't take the hint and comes round to visit on the same day. It doesn't help matters when her newly-discovered birth Dad drops by too! |
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For Your Tomorrow by Peter Ayre |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there are nine characters, doubling of three is invited (for example, the young Albert Parker is intended to be played by the actor who plays David, the older Albert's son.) |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama. Two domestic sets (in the original production this was one box set, with the location change was achieved by using an upstage curtain to conceal or reveal additional set details). Contains a little swearing. |
Synopsis | Albert is getting old and forgetful, so he's moving in with son and daughter-in-law. His presence and decline add to the problems they're already having with their son. But the play also shows how Albert lived as a young man and husband, and tells of some of the experiences that made him who he was - in particular a little-known second world war campaign that marked a turning-point in the war with Japan. |
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Four Sinister Bookworms by Paul John Matthews New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A quirky and clever comedy - a murder mystery where there hasn't been a murder. Two simple sets (that can be constructed with the same furniture and just minor changes in decoration and layout between scenes). One act. |
Synopsis | Library employee Mandy is desperate for something interesting to happen. She gets more than she hoped for when the library's four most eccentric regulars all receive anonymous notes that one of them is a murderer, and gather to solve the case. |
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The Future by Andrew Harrison Listed by The Independent as one of the 'Top Five Plays', 2007 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play, single interior set, exploring the merits of living for ever. |
Synopsis | Three couples meet together over the course of twelve years. During those years a drug is perfected that prevents ageing. The advantages and disadvantages are debated and displayed by the friends at each encounter. |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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Hair of the Dog by Molly McCluskey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props. |
Synopsis | In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!] |
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The House Amongst The Willows by Robert Scott Best Seller |
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 | Full-length thriller with a single set |
Synopsis | Fletcher is taking his fiancée Sadie to stay with the parents of his previous wife. He hasn't really told her much about his last wife's death, and Sadie makes several startling discoveries before she learns the truth about everything. |
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Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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