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The Attic by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act ghost story on a divided stage. |
Synopsis | Demi began trying to sort out the attic ahead of the house move, but she’s become obsessed with an incomplete letter she’s found. Is it a suicide note? A confession? What’s her connection with the woman from the past? |
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The Brilliance in the Room by Phil Porter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 105. No chorus. An ensemble piece designed for a cast of 12 or more, each playing multiple roles. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length sweep of Dickensian vignettes, with an ensemble of actors playing multiple characters. No specific set, but props are manipulated to convey locations. |
Synopsis | A dreamlike convergence of Dickens’ characters and situations swirl about the stage, in a celebration of the author’s works. |
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Dracula by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. This has been written to be easily staged, by use of props, lighting and sound, rather than elaborate sets. |
Synopsis | The classic gothic tale is authentically brought to life, as young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to a Transylvanian castle to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is planning to move to England. But he doesn't realise that the Count has a taste for blood... |
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A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall. |
Synopsis | A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage. |
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Hats Off! - The Musical by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. A nucleus of seven actors, backed by a chorus (with no size limitations) singing the songs. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for seven songs (original lyrics to Victorian period music) is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical for children (could also be staged by adults for kids). Whilst by length we would class this as a one-act play, it is split into two acts and an interval is advised so that the single set can be redressed to mark the passage of time! |
Synopsis | Mrs. Green is the real driving force behind 'Barker's Bonnets' a milliner's shop in Victorian England. However, she faces unemployment when Mr. Barker sells up to emigrate. A secret scheme is hatched to allow her to continue - and to thrive in the modern world of the 1870s. (The script tells an engaging story whilst exploring the novelties, inventions and social nuances of the Victorian world. This would fit well with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 History Topic, 'The Victorians'.) |
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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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Hats Off! - The Play by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play for children (could also be staged by adults for kids). Whilst by length we would class this as a one-act play, it is split into two acts and an interval is advised so that the single set can be redressed to mark the passage of time! |
Synopsis | Mrs. Green is the real driving force behind 'Barker's Bonnets' a milliner's shop in Victorian England. However, she faces unemployment when Mr. Barker sells up to emigrate. A secret scheme is hatched to allow her to continue - and to thrive in the modern world of the 1870s. (The script tells an engaging story whilst exploring the novelties, inventions and social nuances of the Victorian world. This would fit well with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 History Topic, 'The Victorians'.) |
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In The White Time by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] Structurally in one act, but could be performed as a full evening's entertainment. |
Music | None. |
Style | A Victorian historical drama, based on a true murder case |
Synopsis | As a young teenager Mary Wheeler had witnessed her father being convicted and hanged for murder. The trauma resulted in her having intermittent blackouts which she termed her ‘White Time’. Mary invites her lover's mistress Phoebe around one afternoon, leading to her disappearance. Mary is trialled for murder, and only a mysterious letter may reveal the truth of the case. |
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A Melodramatic Guide To Victorian Melodrama by Jack Hutchinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedic sketch educating the audience about Victorian melodrama. |
Synopsis | A short journey through the intricacies and absurdities of the world of Victorian Melodrama - a passionate world of high emotions, daring deeds and dastardly villains. |
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Raw Materials by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama for a cast of two. Simple set - essentially a desk and a pile of rags! |
Synopsis | John Brown speaks of his troubles trying to get his memoirs of Robert Blincoe, a boy who worked in the cotton mills, published. Robert tells his own story and explains what happened to John Brown himself after three years of failure. A window onto the industrial revolution. |
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Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens by Phil Porter (music Mary Harrison Hewett) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Two principals (Dickens and George Dolby), plus many other characters, real and from Dickens' writing, who might be played by a number of on-stage 'voices'. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production ran for one hour.) |
Music | Keyboard scores for 10 pieces of background music are provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Drama in a single simple set, designed to be accompanied by projected images (with the option for an on-stage pianist providing mood music). |
Synopsis | A dramatization of the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to wild success reading extracts from his novels on stage, and the terrible toll it took on him. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** CD with 40 images, 18 sound effects, 3 video clips and 10 pieces of musical accompaniment for 'Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens' by Phil Porter (Music by Mary Harrison Hewett)
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