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| To Kill a Blackmailer by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 male and 3 female roles, plus the voice of a newsreader, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 109 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length murder mystery play on a single drawing room set. |
| Synopsis | A ruthless blackmailer has instructed four potential victims to be at his home at a certain time, to 'discuss a business matter'. A short time after they have all arrived, the blackmailer's dead body is found in the study. The police are informed, and a murder investigation ensues. But all is not what it seems. |
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| To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
| Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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| To Shut The Mouth Of Lions by Dave Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause. |
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| A to Z The Universe In Me by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Variable number of characters may double at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming piece for young children, with no set requirements. Based on the author's best-selling award-winning children's book of the same name. |
| Synopsis | A piece to encourage children to vocalise positive attributes - using the whole alphabet! |
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| The Toad Society by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage actors (two of whom each play two roles in Act 2) and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts (each with its own set). |
| Synopsis | The Harpington Toad Fanciers meet to share their fascination with amphibians, only to discover that they have more interests in common than just the common toad. This leads on to the formation of TARTS and a rather eventful camping expidition...
Act one is available as a stand-alone one-act play, The Harpington Toad Fanciers' Social |
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| Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
| Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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| A Toll Of Bells by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | With action jumping between time zones and crossing three generations, the play depicts people who are faced with huge events that are beyond their control. They must, however, continue the quest for survival in their more mundane lives. The three generations depicted in the play react in different ways to accomplish that goal. |
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| Tom and Huck by Steven Bergman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The characters are a mix of children and adults. The adult roles could be played by children or adults. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a piano & vocal score for all the songs plus two (instrumental) chases. |
| Style | Musical for kids based on the classic story 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, set around the Mississippi river in the late 19th century. |
| Synopsis | Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn get themselves and their friends into various scrapes, but ultimately emerge as heroes. |
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| Tom-Tom by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is a synthesised voice that might possibly be recorded, though that requires a lot of cues to be executed well by the sound desk! |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play (an extended sketch which, with a bit of stage business, might just creep into the one-act play category). Minimal set - a couple of chairs to indicate a car. |
| Synopsis | A couple struggle to reach their destination despite - or because of - the use of their sat-nav. |
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| Tomboy by Stuart Smithers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An efficient one-act drama with some well-placed twists. Deals sympathetically with the issues of bullying and gender transition. |
| Synopsis | Andy is attending his first school reunion since leaving 50 years ago, and meets reunion regulars Gerry and Val. Gerry has very fond memories of school, but doesn't remember Andy. Andy's memories aren't so fond, but he seems to know a lot about Gerry, and is determined to coax a secret out of him. |
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