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Just The Ticket by Philippa Smith
Published: 12 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A satisfying story about a group of women coming together to help each other out, with strong character development and a good mix of topical and character-based comedy. Single interior set with parctical doors. |
| Synopsis | Gemma's sustainable fashion event, or clothes swap as her sceptical mother calls it, is going well despite the nosy neighbour, the newly single mum fretting about her ex, and the goats on the loose. Then a discarded jacket surfaces. In its pockets are a positive pregnancy test and a winning lottery ticket. |
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Making The Wrong Call by Ian McCutcheon
Published: 9 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-plotted farce of the sort in which characters have very good reasons to hide in cupboards.
Single set with multiple practical doors (see above). |
| Synopsis | Robina suspects her husband Bill is having an affair and confides in her friend Marion, who suggests she hire a private detective. Coincidentally, Marion's husband Paul suspects she is having an affair, and hires the same detective. Errors, misunderstandings, and a few minor injuries ensue. |
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Winter Tails by Jackie Carreira
Published: 7 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family comedy show with entertainment working at different levels - balancing a series of fables with comedy about the actors presenting them.
Structured in two acts, but with a run-time at the boundary between one-act fplay and a full-length show. |
| Synopsis | Two out-of-work actors and a reality TV star with thespian ambitions are employed to 'improvise' a selection of animal fables, read by a magical storyteller going through the menopause. |
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A is for Arsenic by David Pemberton
Published: 2 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny comedy which uses popular themes (crime and amateur writers) in an original and surprising plot. Easy to stage, on a single set. |
| Synopsis | A small group of aspiring crime writers meet every week under the critical eye of their course tutor - a successful author who is always daring them to better him. When one writer decides to take up his challenge, it provokes a chain of consequences straight from the pages of a crime novel. |
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An Actor, A Director, His Wife and That Cat! by Sandy Truman
Published: 1 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny take on the relationship comedy with things to say about mid-life crises and age-gap relationships, plus plenty of silliness on the side. A variety of settings, but all should be achievable with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | Theatre director Laurence is happily married to Samantha, but after he starts to notice one grey hair too many, he takes the first opportunity to recapture his youth and run away with the much younger Bella. Now there are four in the marriage - and one of them is the murderous moggy Biggles! |
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Gallinsay by Nicholas Richards
Published: 18 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters of a variety of ages (from 10 to 100) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. |
| Style | A full-length comedy, presented in three acts. Multiple locations, but mainly requiring imagination. |
| Synopsis | St John Carrington de Beauville has forgotten to book his family's summer holiday, a problem solved when an elderly aunt grants St John's children ownership of the remote Scottish island of Gallinsay. But Gallinsay is already inhabited by a commune of enterprising young pioneers who wish to escape modern society, and is also the target of a pair of geologists hired to search for gold. |
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Absolute Angels by David Pemberton
Published: 18 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy horror, inspired by (but deliberately not sticking to the storyline of) 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James. |
| Synopsis | Young governess Angela is hired to look after two precocious teenage children. When she arrives at the country house, she finds the household haunted by the ghosts of a former caretaker and governess, whose behaviour and death have seemingly corrupted the souls of the two orphans. |
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Animal Farm by George Orwell adapted by Kieron Toner
Published: 17 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Large-cast full-length play in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Orwell's classic allegorical tale of the animals taking control of their farm is retold for the stage, keeping much of the original text and storylines. |
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Four Sinister Bookworms by Paul John Matthews
Published: 13 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A quirky and clever comedy - a murder mystery where there hasn't been a murder. Two simple sets (that can be constructed with the same furniture and just minor changes in decoration and layout between scenes). One act. |
| Synopsis | Library employee Mandy is desperate for something interesting to happen. She gets more than she hoped for when the library's four most eccentric regulars all receive anonymous notes that one of them is a murderer, and gather to solve the case. |
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