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| Read All About It by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned... |
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| Reasonable Doubt by A.D. Peters |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play in two short acts - courtroom drama and crime - the way the jury sees is, and the way it happened. |
| Synopsis | A tense courtroom drama with the prosecutor battling a slick defence lawyer at the murder trial of social misfit Josephine Mason. The second act takes the form of a flashback portraying the murder of which she is accused. We are left with the dilemma of knowing jury's decision before we learn the identity of the murderer. We are then able to evaluate the justice of the verdict, wherein lies the final twist. |
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The Ripple Effect by Robert Scott
Glantawe Theatre Company won Best Production and Best Individual Performance at South Breconshire One Act Play Festival, UK in 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama in reverse chronology. |
| Synopsis | There’s no doubt that Eva has murdered Timothy - she’s still holding the gun. But what drove her to kill? Was it fate, or the random collision of people and circumstances? Who, ultimately, is to blame? |
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| Room with a View by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Four thieves meet in a high rise hotel room after a botched bank heist. The situation only gets worse. |
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| A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
| Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| The Siege of Manchester by Ben Alexander |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. 38 speaking roles plus an offstage voice, 2 non-speaking soldiers and various opportunities for crowds. Can be performed with a minimum of 12 actors, though 18 or more would be optimum. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A historical thriller with various settings. |
| Synopsis | King Charles I, at loggerheads with his Parliament, is faced with rebellion. Lord Strange, Lord Lieutenant for Lancashire and a Royalist, attempts to take military command in Lancashire. Manchester, Protestant by persuasion and for Parliament, resists under the leadership of some of the deputy-lieutenants. The play recounts their resistance, culminating in Derby's siege of the town in September 1642. |
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Singled Out by Geoff Rose-Michael
Nominated for New Writing Award and Set Design Award, and winner of Best Actress Award (Jo) at Leatherhead Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. There are two principal characters, one non-speaking (and largely immobile) character and an opening voice-over (which could be recorded, omitted or consigned to programme notes!) |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller with a single (meeting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When SODA, the Singles Online Dating Agency, arranges a social night for some of its members, the first two girls to arrive soon discover they have both previously suffered a similar disturbing experience, and that they have been lured there by person or persons unknown, and then locked in. |
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| The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 112 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length thriller, set in the lounge of a seaside guesthouse in 1958. |
| Synopsis | Sussex, 1958. The Seaview Guesthouse has seen better days and owner Charles is worried the business is over, until a surprise visit from Hollywood star Joseph Fleming. But when another guest goes missing, police descend on the guesthouse and suspicion falls on Fleming. |
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| The Smell of Dirt by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | The friends of a recently released thief confront him for their share of a heist gone bad. |
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| Some People by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller. Single (hotel lobby) set, made complicated by the presence of a functioning lift (or, at least, a functioning set of lift doors). Contains mild swearing (and eccentricity). |
| Synopsis | Things are busy enough at the Lucky Star Hotel, what with the lift being almost as unpredictable as the guests and staff, but now there are two jewel thieves returning to claim the loot they buried years before... under the kitchen floor! |
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