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| Death Threats by Ashley Harris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act thriller. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Katherine and Graham have taken a cottage in the country, but a threatening letter addressed to Katherine has found them anyway. She persuades him to call the police for help, but Constable Roberts has a surprise for them. |
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| Death's Desire by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dark full-length drama, with simple staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | Lawrence’s latest therapy client is both challenging and a little scary. Confessing to multiple marriages under false pretences, and then murder, things only get worse when he reveals how much he knows about Lawrence’s fiancée. |
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| Debbie and Claire Find a Working Solution by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a pub. (In this case, that's a table, two chairs and two glasses.) |
| Synopsis | Debbie and Clare discuss career options. |
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| Debbie and Claire Go Round in Circles by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a pub. (In this case, that's a table, two chairs and two glasses.) |
| Synopsis | Debbie and Clare have to choose between men and a funfair. |
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| Debbie and Claire's Men of the World by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a pub. (In this case, that's a table, two chairs and two glasses.) |
| Synopsis | Debbie and Clare classify men by national characteristics. |
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| Deborah's Party by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English farce in two acts. Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing (and intimations of goings-on.) |
| Synopsis | Deborah Jarvis has arranged a dinner party for her 'unlucky in love' work colleague Jenny. Her plan is to pair Jenny off with mild-mannered neighbour Simon. But Jenny already has a suitor in highly-strung TV producer Barnaby Ruttle. Barnaby's unwanted appearance during the course of the evening will test Deborah's nerves. Unknown to Deborah, husband Alan and even cleaning lady Mrs Seymour are also about to have their nerves tested by further arrivals. |
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| Deception by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play freely adapted from Plautus’ The Menaechmi (which, in turn inspired Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) |
| Synopsis | When a pair of twins are seperated as children, one is discovered by his brother ten years later, leading a tangled life of love and deceit in a far-off town. This play forms act one of Amore by the same author. |
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| Defenceless by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-written drama which touches on interesting issues of psychology and gender politics while being first and foremost a procedural crime thriller. One set - a police interview room with practical door. |
| Synopsis | A newly appointed female Detective Inspector has the difficult task of getting a suspected murderer to confess his guilt as lack of evidence means he may have to be released. |
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| The Definition of Love by Benoni Holt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The monologue is in the voice of a sixteen-year-old English girl. (There is some room for manoeuvre - with minor tweaks to the script - in the specific age, and in the nationality). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. No set or props required. Contains swearing and sensitive issues. |
| Synopsis | An angry sixteen-year-old rages about her sister's cancer and the many other trials in her life, all brought about by the ability to love. She argues for and against in an eloquent, sometimes poignant, monologue with an unexpectedly positive ending. |
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| Deja Deja Vu by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a surreal edge. Single set (the minimum required to indicate a living room). |
| Synopsis | You know the feeling you get that something has happened before? Well Derek's had that feeling before - and for good reason. |
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