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| Covered by Rachel Ihasz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play featuring three teenage girls in a single woodland camp setting. |
| Synopsis | Three friends are sharing their monthly camping trip but Trace feels left out. When Erin leaves, she confronts her old friend Marcy but learns more than she was prepared for. |
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| Cowards by Stephen Gillard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Four principal male roles plus one female cameo. All other roles can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama set at the front during World War One (a cell block and General Haig’s office). Contains appropriately placed adult language. |
| Synopsis | Sixteen-year-old Private Harry Blaydon stands accused of cowardice and faces execution by firing squad. He is mentored by old sweat Sarge who acts as a father figure for him. Harry's predicament is compared with the situation General Douglas Haig finds himself in as their destinies play out. |
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| Cowboy by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The mugger is probably male, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very silly comedy sketch. No set requirements, but does require a singular costume. |
| Synopsis | A rather unconventional super hero vigilante stops a mugger. |
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| Cracker's Christmas by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (dining room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A typical family Christmas dinner as tensions rise on the arrival of Aunt Delphine who must be kept apart from her sister Aunt Daphne as the two have been estranged since Daphne ‘stole’ Delphine’s boyfriend forty years ago. The family descend into ever decreasing circles until the truth is revealed. |
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| Crackerjoke Writer by Paul Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with plenty of acting challenges. A black comedy about comedians who are just not funny. Single set (with no specific set requirements) and simple props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | There is a comedy pit, where unfunny comedians are held captive. That's where Ade finds himself, despite thinking that he's the next big thing in comedy. He has one chance to break out with a new act and it depends on deadbeat failure, Bunny. |
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| A Cracking Pear by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Richard is at his first art class, and he’s nervous, but fellow student Steph tries to put him at ease. The trouble is, Richard is used to a very different type of subject for his drawings, and has problems adjusting. |
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| Cradle of the Cruel Mistress by Tony George |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. The roles are mainly men (as you would expect from a ship's company), but the writer notes six that could be played by women. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length supernatural thriller. Satisfying nautical tale with an interesting historical setting and well developed characters. Not shirking the grimness of the Georgian navy, but, leavened with comic relief. |
| Synopsis | Captain Benjamin Bligh has been on suspended leave for two years since a mutiny spiralled out of control on his watch. Finally returning to active service in George III's navy, he struggles to prove his worth once again, but strange apparitions of his old enemies appear. |
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| Craving by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch in a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | The doctor has an unusual consultation... |
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| Crime by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Christine is written female, but could become a male Chris at the discretion of a production |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama consisting of three connected monologues. |
| Synopsis | Three people talk about their connections to the same killings. |
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| The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
| Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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