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Poles Apart by John Furse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Farce, structurally in two acts, but in length somewhere on the boundary between one-act and full-length play, set in the constituency office of a Member of Parliament. |
Synopsis | MP Jerry Underwood has had a great night, meeting a wonderful girl who happens to be a pole dancer. The press are thrilled, but mistake the woman for a Polish diplomat's daughter, who is also a dancer. Confusion reigns. |
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Port Out, Starboard Home! by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. There are opportunities for 'walk-on' parts for other passengers on the cruise. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play with a single (cruise ship) set. |
Synopsis | Miriam hopes that taking her son Stewart on a cruise will help him find Miss Right, when actually, he's looking for a Mr. Jackie's on the cruise for her health, though she's actually only sick of her husband, and Amanda's a washed up actress, taking any job going. |
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Postal by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length whacky comedy play (in two acts). Single set divided into the front and back offices of the Post Office. |
Synopsis | A dysfunctional post office in Hicksville has a tough inspection, which isn't helped by a former employee taking everyone hostage in an attempt to get his job back. Illicit affairs, novels in progress and unrequited love, not to mention robbery ensure a busy time for all. |
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Potted Austen: The Complete Set by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six bitesize adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. |
Synopsis | A collection of six bitesize dramatic adaptations of Jane Austen's published novels. Each is fast-paced, witty, and amenable to small groups (cast size can be reduced to six with some crafty doubling). |
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The Price of Firewood by Hilary Mackelden The author will be donating 50% of her royalties to go to the Charity 'World In Need', which works with refugees like the ones in the play (and with whom the author worked in Kenya) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length serious drama on the politics and economics of war and trade. Split-stage set. |
Synopsis | A reporter sends a shocking bulletin from a refugee camp in a war torn country, but the government of that country is signing some very important trade agreements, and the help for the victims of violence seems very slow in coming, despite the official 'investigation'. |
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Pride and Prejudice [Full-Length] by Charlie Cook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. In addition to the 18 characters, there are a further four optional non-speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length adaptation of Jane Austen's classic. Single composite set with three locations. |
Synopsis | Bingley, Darcy, Lizzy, Wickham and Collins sneer, smarm and spurn their way through this well-loved tale of manners and assumptions. |
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A Princess For Christmas by Jeff Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. 7 actors, with a choir of 3-4 singers. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with a single retirement home setting. |
Synopsis | Grumpy old widower Reg gets the shock of his life when his ex-mistress Diane, who he abandoned many years ago, is admitted to the Retirement Home After a stormy beginning and with the tender help of the staff and other residents, they are able to rekindle their relationship. |
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The Prisoners' Dilemma by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Six main characters and four cameo roles. |
Run Time | Around 71 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A drama in two scenes, which could be played as two acts - making it a full length piece, with a single (prison cell) set. |
Synopsis | A disparate group of strangers are locked in a prison cell, not knowing the reason for their incarceration. They are all put to the test through a series of challenges, some of which could be lethal, and finally seem able to benefit - from finding their inner selves. |
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Prodigal Daughter by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, hard-hitting family drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | A happy family is shocked by the arrival of father Bradley's previously unknown daughter - Katrina. Doubts as to whether she really is his daughter, and Tyler and Lucy's half-sister, gradually force the family apart until the shocking truth is revealed. |
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Professor Roth's Will by Joe Starzyk |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act drama on a single academic office set. American English. |
Synopsis | Four siblings gather together for the reading of their father's will. But as their personal trials and life-long baggage come out, they discover the true cost of being the child of the infamous Raymond H. Roth. |
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