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A Spot of Murder by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Richly comic murder mystery play. Full-length play, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | When faded theatrical diva, Corrina Marcham, senses that she is in great danger, she calls in Detective Inspector Trench to investigate a murder that hasn't been committed yet - her own. With the suspects, marooned at the Marchams' isolated house because of a storm, Corrina ensures that Trench's journey has not been wasted by conveniently dying. Has Corrina simply died of fright after an alarming Tarot card reading? Has she committed suicide in a bout of thespian depression, or has she really been murdered? And by whom? Somebody with something to gain? Somebody with something to hide? Or simply somebody she had upset? Can Trench and the eager PC Pendlebury uncover the truth before they have to call in somebody else to do it properly? |
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| The Spy On Ward Four by Jonathan Goodson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a bit of an edge. Simple set - a hospital ward, though, unusually for that setting, the focus of the play is not sickness. |
| Synopsis | Oswald is in an Arkansas hospital, trying to recover from his heart operation, but they want to deep-clean his ward and everyone's been moved out except him. Then he becomes unwittingly privy to a plot by a nurse and her boyfriend to steal surplus supplies, and worse... His wife is looking for him! |
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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott
Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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| A Square Peg in a Round Hole by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Peggy has had to go into a care home and reflects on the changes to her life. |
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| Squeezy and the Wicked Queen by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomine with a variety of settings. Includes roles suitable for young children. |
| Synopsis | This story picks ups where 'Snow White' ends. The Seven Dwarves, who work for the Queen down the mine, decide to go and help Santa instead by working in his workshop. Snow White is now on a reality TV series, so the Dwarves need some money of their own. However, all does not go to plan, and the Queen tries to ruin Christmas by poisoning Santa's reindeer. Who will save the day? |
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| Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action. |
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Squirrel Plays His Part by Stuart Ardern
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation! |
| Synopsis | The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sredni Vashtar by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Chorus is written as a 'Greek chorus', talking in unison and commenting on the action. (This could, of course, be done in other ways.) |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on a short story by Saki. Intended to be played near-continuously on a simple set (different parts of the stage representing different locations). |
| Synopsis | This might be described as a black comedy, since our sympathies lie with Conradin, the orphan at the centre of the story who is oppressed by his aunt. Eventually, the aunt gets her comeuppance from Sredni Vashtar, Conradin's very dangerous pet, and Conradin gets to eat more toast. |
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| St Georgia and the Dragon by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include a two-headed dragon (to be played by two actors). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Large-cast, one-act comedy for kids. Multiple locations, but could easily be staged with minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | King Arthur (no, not that one) rules the kingdom of Amnesia, but he's plagued by a dragon and his out-of-condition knights are no help. Cue the arrival of the very female knight, St Georgia, and the recruitment of some of the palace ladies to see off the menace! |
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| The Staff Room by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only). |
| Synopsis | Unable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties. |
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