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| The Riddles at Ramshackle's Rest by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A murder mystery with enough slices of humour, intrigue and cake to keep everyone happy. (There is even an alternative ending!) |
| Synopsis | The local village fair is about to go ahead, and the villagers are priming their melons and baking their cakes. But when the owner of Ramshackle's Rest is found dead, the police are called in - just in time to witness further murders and uncover some closeted skeletons... |
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| A Right How-Do-You-Do! by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with two simple (theatre and living room) settings. |
| Synopsis | The local drama group is rehearsing its next production, a pantomime, but casting is difficult, and relationships between the members become strained, and not a little illicit, as infidelities blossom and come to a surprising end. |
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| Right Move by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
| Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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| A Right Old Scream by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch requiring only a couple of chairs (so could be performed front-of-curtain between more complex pieces). |
| Synopsis | Judith and Mavis are on a day out. They have an unexpected cultural experience whilst sheltering from the rain, when an art gallery gives them something to Munch on... |
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| Right on Cue by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Roles are written as 2 male, 2 female, but all could be played as either. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (police office) setting. |
| Synopsis | The Battersea Batterer is causing havoc for the understaffed local CID as he goes around the neighbourhood hitting people over the head with a billiard cue. The police are snookered at first but are assisted by a psychological profiler in solving the case. |
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| The Right One by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, tinged with black comedy in a single, simple set (another starring role for the park bench.) |
| Synopsis | An unlikely couple meet at dawn in a park. One of them is a murderer, looking for a potential victim... |
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| A Right Royal Mess by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The King and Queen are trying to select a husband for their daughter unbeknownst to her. If only they wouldn't keep being interrupted by auditioning Wandering Minstrels, unhappy Jesters, angry chefs and a very mischievous wicked fairy. |
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| Ring Finger by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue (not for the squeamish) in a single set (it really only needs a bedroom chair). |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth travels with a childhood friend to The Pyramids where the old moral to 'be careful what you wish for' takes a violent and unexpected turn. |
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Rings Around The World by Keith Badham
Premiere production won Best Youth Production and Best Youth Male awards at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival 2013.
(50% of author's royalties are donated to 'Ambitious about Autism'.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Sign Language is also used in this play. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested music is by The Super Furry Animals and Gruff Rhys. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with music, dance and multiple simple settings suggested by the cast. |
| Synopsis | Young Mark is autistic and we are swept into his world in this moving and satirical picture of his short life. |
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| Ripping Off Angels by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!) |
| Synopsis | The Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels! |
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