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| TITLE | SYNOPSIS | GENRE/ CHARS |
| When The Cats Away Everbody Plays | A farce set in a suburban household about a man trying to have an extra-marital fling while his wife is away. | Comedy 3M/6F |
| Weeping Women | Touches of black humour set before and during the funeral of a toy salesman. It focuses on his thoughts and those of the women in his life and the circumstances surrounding his death. | Drama 1M/4F |
| Doubts And Desires | Four people, all with doubts and desires, cross paths in a town park around noon on a lovely summer’s day. Each has an important decision to make. Their meetings play a major part in each other’s decision-making process | Drama 2M/2F |
| Heavens Angel | Set in a rehabilitation home, it is the story of an Angel trying to get his ‘wings’ with a last gasp effort to reunite a rich man’s paralysed son and the girl that loves him and bore his child. | Drama 3M/7F |
| Soul Wager | A lonely housewife, fears her husband is having an affair as a death is destined to strike. The question is, whose death? | Comedy 3M/2F +2-4 Either |
| Painters Mess | A farce set in the suburban home of a bank robber; whose doppelganger is the painter who is coming to decorate his home. The police are hot on the heels of the robber, or are they? | Comedy
6M/6F |
| The Cast | This play is set in the dressing room of an amateur drama group, Poolmore, as they prepare to perform the one-act play, “The Cheat” in a local drama competition. The group are noted for disastrous performances from the vastly different personalities of the cast. | Drama 8M/7F |
| The Cheat | Set in the office of a devious managing director of a lingerie company, it is the story of an evil man, milking profits, sexually harassing female workers and about to close the company and run without compensating the workers. | Drama 4M/7F |
| The Catch | Set in the Poolmore amateur drama group’s dressing room after they performed the one-act play “The Cheat” in a local drama competition. After the post-mortem of the performance the lives of several cast members are hit by a whirlwind of drugs and thugs. Then there’s the stranger. | Drama 10M/4F |
| Brief Encounters Of the Blind Kind | The undercover police are hot on the trail of the jewel thieves, but the park is the place to be for blind dates and farcical mix ups. | Comedy 4M/4F |
| The Majors Wife | Set during the gruesome Apaches Wars with the Cochise led Chiricahua Apache in the 1800’s. It is the story of love triangle between a young U.S. Cavalry Officer, his wife and an older officer. | Western 3M/2F 1 Either |
| The Sub | A hurling championship match is viewed from the perspective of one of the substitutes. | Drama 4M/2F |
| Wedlock | It is the wedding day of a nurse and an arrogant I.T. consultant. At the wedding is her childhood friend, who is a writer. The action takes place before, during and after the wedding ceremony as writer tries to come to terms with the fact that his best friend is marrying somebody whom he intensely dislikes. | Comedy 3M/2F |
| Hounslow West To Leicester Square | An Irish professional on a business trip takes a train on the London Underground from Hounslow West to Leicester Square on the Piccadilly Line and observes the comings and goings of the other passengers Male Version |
Comedy
1M |
| Hounslow West To Leicester Square | An Irish professional on a business trip takes a train on the London Underground from Hounslow West to Leicester Square on the Piccadilly Line and observes the comings and goings of the other passengers Female Version |
Comedy 1F |
| The Swelling | A man is in a public hospital ward. It’s the thoughts and observations the middle-aged man who has been admitted with a knee infection. | Comedy 1M |