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The Road Hill House Murder
8 Male, 4 Female
It is 1860 at Hill House in the village of Road, Wiltshire, and the body of a four-year-old boy is found pushed down an outside privy He has been stabbed, and his throat cut But how did the assailant manage…
Fresh Showers for the Thirsting Flowers
0 Male, 2 Female
Alice is a retired English teacher who is living a comfortable if rather lonely existence A chance encounter with her neighbour`s daughter re-awakens her passion to teach when she discovers that most unusual…
Call Girls
1 Male, 4 Female
Call Girls is set in a call centre providing IT assistance to an unspecified company Three of the women get on well together and 'have a laugh` but for the last six months their happy little group has…
Waiting for a Train
, M1 or F1 + 4 Female
Set on the platform of a rural railway station waiting for a train that never comes, this is a play about life, love and hope The stark reality of living with schizophrenia is contrasted by the warmth…
Acting Young - A Collection of Short Plays for Young Actors
A collection of short acting pieces written for young people and ideal for use in drama schools, ordinary schools and youth theatre groups. They have also been used for festival work and drama examinations…
Stage Struck - A Youth Musical
Stage Struck is a comic tale of Shakespeare in Secondary School. The scene is Westborough High, the school from hell, where disillusioned pupils are rebelling against their education. An enthusiastic teacher,…
Trilogy of Tragedy - Three Ten Minute Plays
These three short plays raise issues which challenge the ideals of young people in today’s world. All of them strive to bring about thoughtful messages and aim to make younger generations, and older ones,…
North Atlantic - A Golden Age Musical (music not included)
8 Male, 8 Female
North Atlantic is an affectionate multi-level spoof of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: set in Eskimo land. With South Pacific as its closest touchstone, this family musical features elements reminiscent…
Son of Sweeney or Another Close Shave - A Musical Melodrama (music not included)
8 Male, 8 Female
Jack the Ripper is at work in Whitechapel. Ten years have passed since Sweeney Todd the barber slaughtered his victims and Mrs Lovett baked them into her glorious pies. Escaping the hangman’s noose,…
A Hint of Old World Charm
7 Male, 1 Female
A comedy about a run-down cottage on the coast and the people who inhabit it over a period of time ... Newly-weds experience every horror from mice to collapsing ceilings, a businessman desperate to spend…
The Singing Swans
7 Male, 4 Female
King Marmaduke’s magical singing swans, kidnapped by the evil Mandarin, are spirited to an island in the China Seas Will Princess Toyah be able to rescue them, aided and sometimes hampered by not-too-successful…
Cricklewood Cowboys
6 Male, 2 Female
Cricklewood Cowboys tells the story of a group of Irish emigrants working on the building sites in London in the 1970s, examining in a ‘warts and all’ detail, the construction industry over a period of…
A Matter of Grave Concern - a One-act Black Comedy
6 Male, 4 Female
Joe Hibbert is faced with the decision on where to have his wife buried. He hates churchyards and the thought of cremation unnerves him so he comes up with an alternative Unfortunately it’s not acceptable…
A Matter of Grave Concern - a One-act Black Comedy
6 Male, 4 Female
Joe Hibbert is faced with the decision on where to have his wife buried. He hates churchyards and the thought of cremation unnerves him so he comes up with an alternative Unfortunately it’s not acceptable…
Keep Off the Grass!
6 Male, 6 Female
Jeremy and Jemima Tourist are determined to give their children a traditional picnic but the beauty spot they have chosen is the very last patch of grass in the world! They soon find themselves defending…
Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize?
5 Male, 5 Female
This comedy satire focusses on two main characters - Marshall Zob, a well-known contemporary English novelist, and his agent Cornelius Snell Zob’s main professional frustration is that although he has…
A Wisp Of Scotch Mist
5 Male, 8 Female
The hilarious sequel to A Hint of Old World Charm in which the Mayberry family and friends head North to a small hotel on the shores of Loch Ness for a few days holiday The promise of peace and quiet is…
Magna Carta
5 Male, 8 Female
King John is given the chance to come back to present time to try and prove that he was not the worst and most evil King who ruled England The audience are judge and jury and the events of John’s…
Doomed Youth
5 Male, 3 Female
The play takes place during The Great War in London, France and Edinburgh between 1915 - 1917 and is based on Siegried Sassoon’s hardening disaffection with the War’s conduct and his defiance…
The Clinking Of The Glasses
4 Male, 2 Female
David, a philosophy graduate, was badly injured during the collision of his car with Sam’s, his TV cameraman, younger brother They had both reached the building on fire where their father Tom, a firefighter,…
The Scent Of Danger
4 Male, 4 Female
Barry Bigley has just set up as a private detective and the last thing he needs, besides a lack of clients, is constant interference from a mother obsessed with cleaning, a father desperate to appear on…
Cry in The Night
4 Male, 5 Female
Christine, a young woman, now a paraplegic after an automobile accident, returns to her wealthy father’s home on a remote island in the Caribbean to recuperate Christine’s father has re-married…
The New Europe - a Polemical Satire
4 Male, 3 Female
Helmut Kohl famously declared that European integration was ‘a question of war and peace in the twenty-first century’ To coincide with the start of this new period of European history, The New Europe…
Hello ... Is There Anybody There ? - A Farce
4 Male, 5 Female
All is dull and peaceful at Squire Grange. Lady Amelia searches for new ideas for her latest mystery novel as Sir Malcolm sleeps off the excesses of another idle day. Family friend Freddy is persuaded…
