Thrillers / Mysteries
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Cast: 2F
Run time: 10 minutes
When a green-fingered vicar and his wife begin digging up the vicarage lawn for "unusual" flower beds, the gossiping village of Little Gittings starts to rot from the inside out. Following a series of suspicious deaths and an explosion of local bees, a woman accused of a scandalous affair with the vicar must uncover the truth behind the couple’s botanical obsession before she becomes the next thing buried in the garden.
Cast: 3M, 6F (with doubling)
Run time: 110 minutes
When Lady Molly Robertson-Bryce, Head of a Suffragette Cell in London, attends a Halloween shoot, more than a brace of pheasants is killed. Blackmail, treason, and unrequited love are uncovered before she can prove that the victim, the Anti-Suffragist Lord Devonport MP, was not disposed of by one of her loyal followers.
Cast: 3M, 4F (with doubling)
Run time: 90 minutes
A tense courtroom thriller, based on a contemporary re-imagining of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
When Henry Dashwood is found in his car at the bottom of a river, was it suicide - or murder?
Cast: 2m, 4f
Run time: 100 minutes
December 2012. Estate agency partner Brian holds an annual office festive party, masking a dark secret - his wife has sold her soul to an ambitious surveyor to cover up her systematic embezzlement. But disaster strikes leaving Brian frozen in time while the world moves on, his loyal secretary and a sharp-witted negotiator work together to save the agency.
Cast: 1M, 2F (with doubling)
Run time: 35-40 minutes
The residents of Little Gittings are excited to welcome a new vicar and his wife to their small English village in the country.
But the village is rife with gossip and rumour.
An extended one-act version of a 10 minute play, A New Garden.
Cast: 5F, 1M or F
Run time: 50 minutes
Stranded on the platform of a foggy railway station waiting room with an unhelpful mobile signal, Rosie grows increasingly anxious waiting for her partner, Charlie. She is unaware that she is surrounded by the ghosts of grieving women from different eras who are all trapped in an eternal limbo of waiting for their own lost loves.
Lost Connections explores how sudden tragedy traps individuals in a state of emotional limbo.
Cast: 2M, 5F (with doubling)
Run time: 80 minutes
June 1913. When Lady Molly, a staunch supporter of the Suffragette movement, and her companion secretary Eva attend Ladies Day at the races, they cannot help but notice Lady Smythe wearing the most enormous Parisian Hat. The very same day that Emily Davidson Wilding lost her life for the cause.
A week later, Inspector Higgins brings news of Lord Smythe’s death by poisoning in a Bond Street tea rooms, seemingly by a lady wearing that very same hat.
Cast: 2M, 4F, 1 Any
Run time: 80 minutes
London, 1910. Set in a time of political turmoil for women before the Great War. The height of the women’s suffrage movement in the Edwardian era. This fast paced, suspenseful mystery is loosely inspired by the Lady Molly of Scotland Yard mysteries, penned by Baroness Orczy.