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Cause for Alarm by Gareth Rubin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length farcical comedy play. Contains swearing (which, considering the mayhem involved, is not surprising!) |
Synopsis | It's Health and Safety Inspection Day at the Nuclear Power Plant, but when the inspector himself causes an accident, no one feels healthy or safe. |
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A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Eva Bird by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
Synopsis | The cautionary tale of Eva Bird - the Nuclear Nightingale. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Georgie Porgie by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The narrotor's lines could be split amongst several people. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming morality play for kids. |
Synopsis | The familiar tale of Georgie Porgie, whose bullying ways lead him to a grave end, is brought to life in an innovative manner. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Humpty Dumpty by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. No specific gender requirement. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A rhyming comedy monologue, with no set requirement. |
Synopsis | The bullying Humpty Dumpty meets his deserved end, as the narrator reveals how he - or she - pushed him off the wall and describes the subsequent rejoicing. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Miss Lucy Luckett by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A monologue for two persons! The intention is that someone should recite the verse whilst the story is acted out in mime. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy monologue - a cautionary tale told in verse |
Synopsis | Desperate for a life on the stage, Lucy Luckett tragically over-stretches herself! |
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A Cautionary Tale by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | A different take on the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, here showing the Rich Man (Ozymandias) arriving in torment, only for a fellow sufferer to point out the hopelessness of his situation. |
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Celebrating Saint Patrick's by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Single pub set. |
Synopsis | Larry is out to celebrate Saint Patrick's day, but his drinking partner is a little unexpected. |
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Celebrity by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length modern comedy with a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Max has writer's block as well as coping with his newborn and is struggling to meet publisher's deadlines. Wife Amber is harassed with celebrity clients' demands on her PR agency. The arrival of Max's long lost, ex-con, father into the thorny situation leads to even more complexities. |
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Cell Mates by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a single (prison cell) setting. |
Synopsis | Young Terry Cole is entering the prison system for the first time. His youthful swagger is tempered by his apprehension about what lies ahead. His meeting with cell mate, murderer George, has a profound effect on him. |
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