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A Bit of a Problem by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Mary should be old enough to be Adam's mother. |
Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An unusual, full length play with strong language and adult situations, in two split settings. |
Synopsis | Against their better judgement, Mike and Adam have brought their wives to see the local drama group's play. But the plot of a man sleeping with his brother's wife hits a bit close to home and a whole surprising bunch of secrets come tumbling out in one busy evening. |
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A Bit of a Turn 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch on a minimal café set. |
Synopsis | Maureen and her Aunt Vera are discussing Brenda's latest accident. |
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A Bit of Light Froth by Kelsey Gray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (coffee shop) setting. |
Synopsis | A customer’s attempt to get a cup of coffee is increasingly frustrated by the superior attitude of the barista. |
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Bite-Size - Six Vampire Plays by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Three or four characters per piece. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collecton of six sketches, generally comedic, but with the occasional sharp edge. |
Synopsis | A collection of six short plays/sketches for teenagers with the theme of vampires. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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Black Combe by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, creating some tensions, with a single set. |
Synopsis | Three separate meetings take place on the same day, in the bar of the Duck and Feathers. Each of them, in their own way, affects the life of the landlord, Jimmy. Is it true that the clouds over Black Combe are bringing him bad luck? |
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The Black Widow by Helen Sharman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Parody of a Victorian melodrama - all the exaggerated wickedness, innocence, heroism and coincidence, with added comedy! Several scenes, but sets implied rather than elaborate. Simple props. Contains mild innuendo. |
Synopsis | Old lepidopterist, Squire Decrepit, is the wicked Vylene's fourth husband - and she's about to look for a fifth. All that stands between her and the dashing Mark Christmas is the sweet, innocent Abigail her strange uncle, Ivor and Squire Decrepit - who just happens to be in a wheelchair on a cliff-top. |
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Blackbird by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
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 drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
Synopsis | Overbearing mother Rosie drops off her anxious daughter Florence at the start of her first term at Oxford. |
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Blackmail by Lynn Snyder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One role is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Tense full-length drama with political, and moral themes. First published in 2010, revised in 2013. |
Synopsis | A congressman is being investigated over the disappearance of an intern with whom he was having an affair. His son tries to remain loyal but may have to sacrifice his own political career. Then the son meets the sister of the intern and falls in love, changing everything. |
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Blackmail in Bohemia by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, with minimal set dressing required. A companion piece to Pemberton’s previous Death by Detective, inspired by Conan Doyle’s story A Scandal in Bohemia. |
Synopsis | When the legendary Inspector Bucket is hired to stop a royal prince from being blackmailed by a former lover, he is thrown into a fiery and passionate encounter with a femme fatale that threatens to melt his intellectual froideur and stir undiscovered emotions. |
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