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Sherlock Holmes and The Pirates of the Horn by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play set in and around Victorian London. |
Synopsis | It's 1888, and Sherlock Holmes is set the task of unravelling the identity of pirates operating off the Horn of Africa (the coast of Somalia!) where they are threatening British Interests in the shipping using the Suez Canal. A satisfying Sherlockian mystery with modern resonances. |
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The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Play] by Dave Jeanes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is optional. The dwarves are all written male but have not been included in the count of definitely male characters. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play (with the option of music if a production wishes to add it!) This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience. |
Synopsis | The fairytale of the princess driven out by her wicked stepmother, finding refuge with a company of miners. |
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Soldjer by Pete Benson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Mixed-age cast, with the central character played at various ages. The chorus is flexible, but the author recommends five principals plus a minimum of 15 in the chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama. Structurally in two acts, but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length. No set as such, but requires some specific staging. |
Synopsis | Mike struggles against his contradictory upbringing - a father who encouraged him to question and learn about everything but faith - and finds his whole life affected. |
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Stoneybroke Hall by Georgina Cawood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Written for children to perform, but could be played by a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodrama. Multiple sets, but sets can be stylised rather than realistic. |
Synopsis | Stoneybroke Hall used to be an excellent school, but recently it has started to go down hill. Staff have been leaving and, mysteriously, the rival school at Graspyng Grange seems to have benefit. The mystery is unfolded by a cast of teachers, pupils and historical figures accidentally caught in a time machine |
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With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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