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| Just the Two of Us by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act farce with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | In an attempt to inject some life into their jaded marriage, Will and Cath take their counsellor's advice and go on a second honeymoon. Things go awry when their respective lovers both turn up at the hotel. |
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| The Killers by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is voice only so could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (apartment) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | Struggling artist George and his partner Paulie are presented with a golden opportunity to transform their perilous financial situation when their landlord’s wife needs a hitman to dispose of her brutish husband. A burglar, a policeman and a malfunctioning toilet enter the fray as the plan goes awry. |
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| A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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| Last Respects by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play in funereal black - so obviously a comedy! Single set (a funeral parlour), replete with coffin. |
| Synopsis | Henry Throgmorton (deceased) has decreed that a wake should be held in his honour at the funeral parlour. The guests, previously unknown to each other, are his wife and his two mistresses... |
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| Last Séance by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A slick farce with a single domestic set. (Nominally in the USA, but could work in any location.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A family-operated séance scam is laid out before us. Attempts to conceal the swindle lead to a number of surprising twists amid frenetic action. The final startling twist of the play reveals to us - and the family - why this must be the last séance. |
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| Local News by Sean Dooley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farcical comedy. Multiple sets (to be changed quickly via backdrops). Divided into five acts - indicating the phases of the story, rather than places for audience breaks! (Contains one unsavoury throw-away line!) |
| Synopsis | The town of Taviscombe is a quiet, peaceful hamlet, however this leaves the local newspaper and police force without much to do. To try and combat their boredom and get themselves recognised on a national level, both organisations independently plan a robbery. Unfortunately the fool-proof schemes they come up with are identical, leading to a great deal of confusion and the disappearance of the money they were targeting. |
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| Losing Count by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus a brief offstage voice, which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set. A balance of fun farcical comedy and satisfying character development. |
| Synopsis | Oli is the producer at a low-budget TV station attempting an ambitious live election night broadcast. But the show starts to go downhill when the guests don't show up, the host gets drunk, and a reporter picks a fight with a lager-lout. With so much happening, it can only be sabotage. |
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| Making The Wrong Call by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-plotted farce of the sort in which characters have very good reasons to hide in cupboards.
Single set with multiple practical doors (see above). |
| Synopsis | Robina suspects her husband Bill is having an affair and confides in her friend Marion, who suggests she hire a private detective. Coincidentally, Marion's husband Paul suspects she is having an affair, and hires the same detective. Errors, misunderstandings, and a few minor injuries ensue. |
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| Missing Links by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act farce with a split stage setting comprising two living rooms. |
| Synopsis | The inadvertent use of the wrong type of mushroom, causing temporary amnesia, leads to marital confusions for a friendly foursome who forget who is married to whom. |
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| Mixed Massages by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a non-speaking role - the literal butt of some of the jokes! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Intended to be played at frantic pace, so possible to run in 50 minutes! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with a single 'health spa' setting. Intended to be taken at a frantic pace, so could well be done in 50 minutes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy day in the relaxation spa, with New Girl Tina struggling to come to terms with her new job. It's all complicated by a number of clients who've arranged liaisons, or mistaken the premises for.. .some quite different establishment. It's steamy and hairy, but funny too. |
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