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| The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
| Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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| Darra's Coffin [Full-Length Version] by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single (undertaker's workshop) setting. Contains adult language and themes. |
| Synopsis | Funeral Director Darra's death puts the future of the business in jeopardy and workers Gladwyn, Tom and Terry take drastic action to prevent Darra's blowsy widow Winnie from selling out to competitors Musgroves. Their tactics soon get out of hand... |
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| A Day in the Life by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun! |
| Synopsis | A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch. |
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| The Devenish Curse by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts, with a single set - a lavish 'Jacobean house' lounge. |
| Synopsis | Susie Devenish inherits Devenish Hall, but immediately realises that a large financial injection is needed to keep the house running. Her new boyfriend Jago has a scheme to help her... Unfortunately for Susie, of a nervous disposition, Devenish Hall is thought to have its own curse and that serious misfortune is about to strike someone in the house. Luckily Inspector Trench is on hand to put everyone's mind at rest. So we can all sleep easy, can't we? |
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| An Elliot Steinway Mystery by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark. |
| Synopsis | Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably. |
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| Just Desserts [One-act Comedy] by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with elements of farce. Two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Simon and Caroline's plans to renovate and resell an old house are thwarted by elderly sitting tenant, Dorothy. Assuming that the old lady will soon pass away they proceed, only to find that Dorothy is far from death's door. The only solution seems to be to hasten her death by nefarious means, but Dorothy is up to the challenge. |
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| The Killers by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is voice only so could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (apartment) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | Struggling artist George and his partner Paulie are presented with a golden opportunity to transform their perilous financial situation when their landlord’s wife needs a hitman to dispose of her brutish husband. A burglar, a policeman and a malfunctioning toilet enter the fray as the plan goes awry. |
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| Last Respects by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play in funereal black - so obviously a comedy! Single set (a funeral parlour), replete with coffin. |
| Synopsis | Henry Throgmorton (deceased) has decreed that a wake should be held in his honour at the funeral parlour. The guests, previously unknown to each other, are his wife and his two mistresses... |
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| The Morning After The Night Before by Lee Baddock & Chris Kirby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are middle-aged (whatever that means). They declare their ages in the script, but those statements can be changed to suit the cast. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length macabre farce set in a bedsit flat. |
| Synopsis | After a night on the town, four drunken friends crash out in what they think is Eleanor's flat. Unfortunately they seem to have ended up in the wrong flat, and mayhem ensues, not least when the flat owner returns, since it turns out that the flat is owned by a serial killer. |
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