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The Cat and The Monkey by Charlotte Court
Production by Jinx Theatre Company scooped the Daniel Penfilled Award for Best Actress at the BC Drama Festival in 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedic-drama in one act, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | At first it appears that a marriage guidance session for Sophie and James is in progress - using the audience as the counsellor. But as all of their simmering grievances come to the fore, it gradually becomes clear that something completely different and poignant is happening. |
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| The Cat Club by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are cats (anthropomorphised and inhabiting a very human environment). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a comedy and character piece with a single bar-room set. |
| Synopsis | A group of cats meet up at their regular haunt to share some sad news about one of their number. They remember her fondly (in the main) and decide how they will go on. |
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Catapult by David Lovesy
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and an offstage voice. Roger and Geoffrey are written male but gender is unimportant and names can be changed to fit the gender of the available actors. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Two medieval peasants try out a new, quick, cheap form of transport. |
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| Catch As Catch Can by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, in a single set. A comedy, which is not what one expects from Othello. |
| Synopsis | An alternative history of Othello, playing with our preconceptions of Shakespeare's characters. A worldly wise Iago is giving advice about women to a distraught Cassio, who cannot bear to see Desdemona married to Othello. But Iago's wife seems to be openly flirting with the General, and Desdemona isn't happy... |
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| The Catch by Stan Duncan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two characters are offstage voices and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act melodramatic thriller with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Paul, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, has something otherworldly about him. As he explains the reason he is in hospital to student nurse Yvonne, his strange and intriguing past is slowly revealed. |
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| Catching Up by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, set on a shopping centre bench. |
| Synopsis | A couple of 'mature' ladies meet in a shopping centre. Gossip follows. |
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| Caught Out by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two burglars break into Mrs. Forester-Brown's House, but their noise attracts attention. Meanwhile, Mrs. Forester-Brown's husband has gone missing... |
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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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