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| In the Midst of the Storm by David Ridler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. A wide range of ages amongst the characters from 'late teens' to over eighty. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, fun twist on the stately home murder mystery - in which there isn't a murder. Humour and a range of distinct characters. Simple full-stage sets interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes. |
| Synopsis | It's supposed to be a relaxing holiday in a stately home with a chance to meet the Lord and Lady, but there's a possible poisoning, blood and a knife in the kitchen, and a secret in the cellar. Luckily, there's also a police officer. |
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| The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
| Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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Kill-Joy by Mike Rouse
Partington Theatre Glossop 2018, Best Actress award, Rachael Hope, under original title of Mirror Image. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the two on-stage characters, there is a radio announcer's voice at the start. This is likely to be a recording. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] First production timed at 27 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller. Single set (which may be very simple). Contains swearing and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | A man and a woman stumble into an alley behind a club. It’s clear what his intentions are, but she’s not going along with him. Not here, not now, not with a serial killer on the loose. |
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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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