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Cold Front by Alan Robinson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is a radio voice from offstage and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with farcical overtones, in a remote hut setting. |
| Synopsis | When Mike whisks Karen away to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands, he thinks he's planned the perfect birthday surprise. But things soon sour when the cottage turns out to be nothing more than a rusty tin shack, and the friends Mike has invited are people Karen can't stand. As tensions rise and temperatures plummet, they find themselves entombed in a blizzard, leading to frosty exchanges and those of a more amorous nature. |
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| The Comedy of Errors [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Speaking roles - 4M, 4F, 8 either, plus at least 3 non-speaking townspeople. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Antipholus of Syracuse has come to Ephesus with his servant, Dromio. Unknown to them, their identical twin brothers, also called Antipholus and Dromio, have been living in Ephesus for many years. There is a heap of comic confusion until their true identities are at last revealed. |
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| Contracts by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama focusing on political sleaze, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Hedley is a man on the edge. An MP only re-elected by the slimmest majority, he needs a juicy cabinet job to pay off the debts mounting due to his wife's shopping and his sons' public school. He soon discovers how far he'll go to escape the life he's been living. |
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| Corner's Last Case by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy whodunnit in two short acts. (In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play.) Three remarkably similar office sets. |
| Synopsis | The legendary, brilliant Inspector Corner is not only up against the dastardly Butcher of Baker Street but also has to contend with his superior the mysterious Superintendent Marsha Mallow. This jolly ripping yarn sees the Inspector solve more than just the murder of Sir Newell Post as he comes up against the Russian Mafia in the shape of the Sodov brothers (one of whom is female). |
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Coronation Fever by Vince Jones
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy play in two short acts. Single (village hall) set. |
| Synopsis | With the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second only a year away, the village of Wintercourse Frequent must prepare! The Vicar calls together some stalwarts of the village to plan for the big event over two meetings. |
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| A Corpse for Christmas by Angela Lanyon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length thriller in a single set. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve and the family are gathering, including maiden aunt Cilla who no-one is looking forward to seeing and tempers start to fray as soon as she arrives. A murder ensues... |
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| Costa de los Fugitivos by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single Spanish hotel terrace setting. Some lines in Spanish, translations provided. |
| Synopsis | Fugitive criminals Harry and Reg think they have found the ideal hiding place in an out-of-the-way Spanish hotel. But the peace is chaotically interrupted when English guests arrive and the past - from their old police nemesis to their wives - catches up with them. |
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| The Cottage by John Dowsett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] The author estimates the run time at 80 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A drama set in the 1960s. Structurally in two acts, but on the boundary between one-act and two-act length. |
| Synopsis | Alex’s cottage was once a cosy family home, but since the death of his wife, he’s started to lose his grip on the place. Now his sons see an investment opportunity, if they can persuade him to move out. |
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| Councillors by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, there is an off-stage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A drama touched by elements of comedy and farce, as you might expect from a combination of marriage and politics. Set in a house in South Wales. |
| Synopsis | Bill Owen is a little set in his ways, and distressed to have to dress up smart for his older son's wedding. Edward Owen is marrying a girl with family connections and he doesn't want his family letting him down. But local politics is all anyone can talk about, despite the wedding. |
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| Counsellor Extraordinary by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Set between 1598 and 1600, the play recounts the downfall of the Earl of Essex, once the aging Queen Elizabeth I's greatest favourite in the light of the differing attitudes of brothers Anthony and Francis Bacon towards Essex as their patron. Anthony served in the feudal manner, bound forever to his lord, right or wrong. Francis, the contemporary thinker, limited his allegiance and served save his loyalty to Queen and state. He finally stops supporting Essex during his trial for treason and it is Francis' skill as a prosecutor that leads to a guilty verdict and results in Essex being beheaded. |
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