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The Guest House by P. B. Stenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage roles plus an offstage voice. |
Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play in a single bedroom set. An episodic structure (because all the guests can't occupy the same bedroom at the same time.) |
Synopsis | Clara and Will have bought the Guest House at Number 13, a new business venture for them. They find that there is a lot of on-the-job learning to do - for example, they have to decide what to do with the stash of old twenty pound notes in the hidden wall safe, not to mention the peculiar behaviour of their guests. |
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Happy Families by David Allan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy with elements of farce as well as family drama. |
Synopsis | Two families are brought together by the engagement of their children. The future in-laws meet for the first time, and could not be more different - but two of them hold a secret past. |
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Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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It's Business As Usual by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.) |
Synopsis | Plover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary. |
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It's Deja View... Again by The Stannington Scribbler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production run time was between 95 and 100 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play in a single set. (Mainly a living room set, with the option of separate areas at either side of the stage for two telephone operators.) |
Synopsis | Peter has been tied up and robbed, as well as hit on the head. Getting justice is just as hard as getting the insurance money, and then he's robbed again, and accused of the robbery! Can the Neighbourhood Watch help catch the real crook? |
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Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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The Labours Of Heracles by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The minimum cast assumes reallocation of the Amazons' lines. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for four original songs. |
Style | Comedy play with four original songs. Multiple locations, but intended for minimal staging. Intended for school productions from Year 6 (US Grade 5) upwards. |
Synopsis | Heracles' twelve mighty labours are recreated (and rehydrated) just off the stage in this light comedy based on the Greek legend.(No lions need be harmed in this production.) |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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Matchmakers by Robert M. Barr |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A range of ages and plenty of opportunity for characterisation. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play set in the Jewish community in 19th century Eastern Europe. Clever and funny, with a plot that twists and turns. Multiple locations, but easy to realise without elaborate scenery. |
Synopsis | Reuven, the son of a Rabbi, is studying to be a Rabbi too. He needs a wife to support him, but also to prevent him being drafted into the Czar's army. Unfortunately he and his family have to move to another village where their matchmaker runs into another Matchmaker. |
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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
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