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Kit Kat Man by James Addis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An efficient spy drama - like a compact Le Carré. Realistic dialogue leading to a surprising but well-planted twist. Simple set - another chance to wheel-out the park bench. |
Synopsis | Moscow, near the end of the Cold War. Paula Wilson seeks to coax the defector Gerald Soames back to Britain, ostensibly as a means of undermining the intelligence Soames has given to the Soviets. In reality, her motives are more sinister. |
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Legacy by Lee Stewart |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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The Long Game by Julie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Thriller, spread over a long timescale, but in a single set. |
Synopsis | Marina seems very happy with the whirlwind romance and marriage to the much older Lawrence, but then she falls ill and her friends are concerned. Is Lawrence trying to drive them away? Is his stepson right about the death of his last wife? And ultimately, who is being conned by who? |
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Look at the View by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun comedy thriller. A single set modified between the acts. |
Synopsis | Max and Fiona move into a beautiful urban apartment that seems too good to be true. When they find a hidden burner phone, each accuses the other of hiding a secret. But their estate agent was not who he seemed, and they’re drawn into a series of events no one could prepare for. |
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Lot 249 by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act thriller, based on the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Multiple settings but intended to be created with lighting and portable set elements. |
Synopsis | Abercrombie Smith is a medical student at Oxford. Living in the flat below him is Edward Bellingham, a strange, short-tempered man who has a fascination with Egypt and owns Lot 249 - a mummy, bought at auction. After a number of strange incidents, Smith begins to believe that Bellingham may have found a way of bringing Lot 249 to life to do his bidding. |
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The Madness of Sherlock Holmes by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller. Single set - a prison cell! |
Synopsis | A curious and very authentic Holmes tale, with the Great Detective locked in a cell and wearing a straitjacket. Is there really a plot to assassinate the Queen, or is this a fabrication of Holmes' deranged mind, as his friend Watson suspects? |
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Make This Go Away by Robert M. Barr |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play with a single domestic setting |
Synopsis | When a stranger turns up, breaking into his house in the middle of the night, Fred pulls out his gun to defend his wife and property, but if the stranger is a locksmith sent by the bank... and if the house has been foreclosed, what then? And what does Fred’s wife, Alice, have to do with it all? |
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A Man Walks Into a Bra by Jonathan Goodson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy-thriller with a single set (plus front-of-curtain prologue). |
Synopsis | A pair of detectives investigate suspicious activity in Bar Harmony, uncovering fraud, theft, deceit, administering a noxious substance and very poor taste in trousers. |
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Meeting by Gaslight by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are nominally 2M, 2f, but the writer notes: 'directors are free to change names to reflect social, cultural and gender diversity'. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller in a single (abandoned cottage) set. |
Synopsis | For Caron, it's just one more acting job before she heads out to Australia, but for Jenny it's a supernatural encounter that challenges her belief in her own sanity. Caron must choose whether or not to tell Jenny she's being manipulated. |
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Melissa's Big Birthday Bash by Eric Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The on-stage characters are teenage girls plus a younger brother and his friend. There are a couple of offstage adult voices. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller for teenagers with a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | It is Melissa's fifteenth birthday. Most of her friends are away or busy, so it looks as though her slumber party will not be a huge success. On top of that her mother has invited the dreaded Nikki Nolan, the girl everyone hates, to her party. But what looks like a boring and uncomfortable night for Melissa turns into something else entirely in this mystery thriller, which comes complete with ghost stories, an intruder, cut telephone lines and a neat twist at the end. |
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