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Kill-Joy by Mike Rouse
Partington Theatre Glossop 2018, Best Actress award, Rachael Hope, under original title of Mirror Image. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the two on-stage characters, there is a radio announcer's voice at the start. This is likely to be a recording. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] First production timed at 27 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller. Single set (which may be very simple). Contains swearing and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | A man and a woman stumble into an alley behind a club. It’s clear what his intentions are, but she’s not going along with him. Not here, not now, not with a serial killer on the loose. |
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| The Killers by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is voice only so could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (apartment) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | Struggling artist George and his partner Paulie are presented with a golden opportunity to transform their perilous financial situation when their landlord’s wife needs a hitman to dispose of her brutish husband. A burglar, a policeman and a malfunctioning toilet enter the fray as the plan goes awry. |
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| The King And The Goose Girl by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children. |
| Synopsis | The magical talking horse, Falada, helps reveal Princess Selena's true identity and enable her to find her true love, despite the efforts of her evil maid. This is an adaptation of the Grimm brothers' tale - 'The Goose Girl'. |
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| King Boleslav the Bumbler by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Nominally in 5 acts, but of one-act length and can be played continously. |
| Synopsis | King Boleslav has a very relaxed attitude to ruling his country. So relaxed that he is in danger of losing it when the Kingdom Inspection Team, led by the dreaded Countess Zaria, pay him a call. If the Countess is hoping to find a vital and dynamic monarch, a loving royal family and a powerful army, Boleslav knows that she is going to be sorely disappointed. It’s just as well that an enterprising and ambitious traveller hatches a plan to rescue the situation. |
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| King Charles and the Cheese by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus - patrons of the Royal Oak and members of the Roundhead army - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical (in the acurate as a Hollywood epic sense of the word) comedy drama for kids, set during the English Civil War. |
| Synopsis | King Charles And The Cheese is the entirely (give or take most of it) true story of how a simple piece of cheese altered the course of English history. The English Civil War rages on but, after a heavy defeat at the Battle of Worcester, the would-be King Charles II attempts to make his way to, hopefully temporary, exile in France. In hot pursuit are Charles' enemy Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of All England and his Roundhead army Charles takes cover at the Royal Oak Inn but Cromwell and his men are upon him in short order. Is Charles doomed or can salvation be found in the Royal Oak's larder? |
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The King of Spain's Treasure by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing arts won the Syd Mence Trophy at the Wilmslow Guild One Act Play Festival may 2011 (for being 'a piece of magic'!) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Loosely based on Treasure Island - so loosely that Robert Louis Stevenson is probably spinning in his grave. Jokes and puns and a new take on an old story. Not strictly a pantomime, but might be played as one. |
| Synopsis | Jim Hawkins, now in possession of the tattered map of a distant tropical island, sees a life of adventure and great riches beckoning but, as the story unfolds, he realises that he is not the only one with an interest in the treasure. |
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The King's Spell by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Variations on some well-known nursery songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Class-sized play for elementary schools, embedding mixed-up versions of well-known nursery songs. |
| Synopsis | Old King Cole isn't so merry when his pipe, bowl and fiddlers don't turn up. In fact, he's so miffed that he puts a spell on all Mother Goose Land, mixing up all the characters and rhymes. Mother Goose goes to see if she can help untangle everyone. |
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| The King's Twelve Huntsmen by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of Grimm's fairytale - 'The Twelve Huntsmen'. |
| Synopsis | Princess Constance disguises herself as a huntsman, to gain the attention of Prince Donald who is betrothed to another. All works out well in the end. |
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| Kippers Can’t Swim 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. |
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| Kissing the Ground by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, poignant drama. Not much set, but a chance to wheel-out the park bench again. |
| Synopsis | Freda is sitting on her favourite bench when she meets an elderly jogger who tells her he's in training for the London Marathon. She needs to know the whole story, and discovers the tragedy that is keeping the jogger going. |
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