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| Who Killed Cock Robin? by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act (but a fairly long act) comedy for kids. Single (courtroom) set. |
| Synopsis | Never mind all the birds of the air sighing and sobbing when they heard of the death of poor cock robin - what happened when the case came to court? |
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| Who Said It Was Easy? by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy play, with a village hall setting. |
| Synopsis | The Downcot players are back again, and rehearsing for their very own pantomime, written by new member Sam. Things are tense as always, but everyone is surprised on opening night. |
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| Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
| Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
| Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Who wants to be a Millipede? by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are given specific gender, they are, when all's said and done, invertebrates, so it doesn't really matter! There's no formal chorus, but there could be many more 'minibeasts'. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Educational (entomological) adventure for kids. Minimal sets, but scope for a lot of fun with the costumes! |
| Synopsis | A group of garden-dwelling invertebrates (arthropods, molluscs and an earthworm, since you ask) are under threat from a pesticide attack and need to go on a journey to seek a new habitat. The millipede puts his best foot forward (having spent some time working out which one it is). |
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| Who Was That by Charlie Cook |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce. A fast moving one-act comedy full of mistaken and doubly mistaken identities. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | We are fully aware of who Tom, Sylvia, Richard and Harriet are - or is it Harry? - but they are not. We relish their confusion as the merriment gathers speed and they struggle to come to terms with who's who and who is having an affair with whom. The appearance of the unintelligible Michael adds to the misunderstanding but eventually leads to realisation... |
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| Who's Hamlet by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act farce in two acts. (I mean it's in two acts but is relatively short.) A farce, with misunderstandings galore and all the theatrical temperament you could wish for. All this comes with a simple set and small cast. |
| Synopsis | A young actor takes the role of Hamlet from his ageing father. |
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| A Whole New World by Rebecca Grabill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future). |
| Synopsis | A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it's lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end. |
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The Whore's Tale by Archie Wilson
Performance by Oxted Players won best actor, best actress and best director at the Southern Counties drama festival, 2014. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single-set one act play. Strong sexual themes and violence. |
| Synopsis | Gerald pays a call to Mandy, a prostitute, asking for her to play a special game. However, we quickly find out that neither Mandy nor Gerald are who they seem to be, but then the game is not what we think it is either. A twist-in-the-tale three hander. |
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| Whose Baby? by John Collings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (hospital waiting room) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Three pregnant women from very different backgrounds have come for a routine check-up. As they wait to be seen, they discuss their various experiences whilst conceiving. One of them goes into labour, with shocking results. |
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| Why Homo Erectus Died Out by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Optional gender for the Presenter role |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy play, with a single simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Professor Anthony presents his imaginative theory as to why Homo-Erectus died out, as we watch the interaction between male and female played out in mime - and Ugs - before our very eyes. |
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