Full Length Comedy
by Derek Webb,
published on
Seven actors or less
The Invisible Man
Three actors (3M) Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes. This brand new, fast-moving, very funny adaptation has all parts from a vicar, to a pub landlady to a tramp and to the Invisible Man himself - fifteen characters in total - played by just three actors! Click here for details
Eight actors or more
Reclaiming Stonehenge
Eleven actors (5F, 3M, 3F or M) Running time: 100 minutes. When Roy Brown started a campaign to have the Stonehenge bluestones returned to Wales, he didn't expect to attract quite so much national fervour, nor the unwanted attention of irate druids, intent on ritual sacrifices. Click here for detailsAgatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders
Ten actors 4m 6f (or 3m 7f) Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes. Agatha Crusty (pronounced Croosty) is a crime novelist. She's also pretty adept at solving crimes. So when she spends a few days in the village of Chortelby, it's not long before she gets caught up in a series of murders directed at members of the Village Hall committee. Click here for details
Agatha Crusty and the Murder Mystery Dinner
Eleven actors (5M, 6F) Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. Geoffrey and Caroline Robertson are having a dinner party to celebrate ten successful years of Mighty Midget Vacuum Cleaners. But it’s not long before it becomes a real murder mystery. Click here for detailsAgatha Crusty and the Health Spa Murders
Ten actors (3M, 7F) Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes. When Agatha books into a Health Spa, things start well enough, with the women experiencing the choice of spa treatments on offer until one of the group is found drowned, presumed murdered, in the Moor Mud Bath. Click here for details
Agatha Crusty and the Pantomime Murders
Ten actors (4M, 7F) Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes. Agatha is in Giglinton for a Book Festival when she meets the local amateur dramatic group starting rehearsals of their production of Peter Pan. Sadly these are cut short when an actor is killed. The police believe it to be an accident as they do another death which occurs soon after. Agatha however is convinced that the deaths are murders, and believes them to be connected, something born out when a third member of the group dies; all with clues seemingly referring to a pantomime. And, being an Agatha Crusty murder mystery, the laughs pile up as fast as the bodies. Click here for details
Agatha Crusty and the Murder Mystery Dinner
Eleven actors (5M, 6F) Running time: 2 hours approx. Agatha decides to join a genealogy course. Sadly, wherever Agatha goes, murderous deeds seem soon to follow. She has scarcely been there a few hours when one of the people running the course dies in suspicious circumstances. And then one by one others follow. Click here for details
Agatha Crusty and the Medieval Murders
Eleven actors (5M, 6F) Running time: 2 hours approx. Agatha decides to join a genealogy course. Sadly, wherever Agatha goes, murderous deeds seem soon to follow. She has scarcely been there a few hours when one of the people running the course dies in suspicious circumstances. And then one by one others follow. Click here for details
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Eight actors (6M, 2F – with doubling) Running time: 2 hours approx. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' was voted number 6 in the BFI list of best British films of the 20th century! This brand new stage adaptaion doesn’t require sets as such but it needs strong performers and lots of doubling – like in the film, where Alec Guinness played all the various murder victims! Click here for details